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With 30+ years of
experience within the swimming world not only as an athlete but
coach, Teresa brings a wealth of experience as well as knowledge to
our LCFY Sharks swimming program. She is a high-energy coach who
truly enjoys working with student-athletes to explore their inner
most capabilities. She is a firm believer in quality training with
the emphasis on proper stroke mechanics specific to each
individual.
Her
responsibilities include overseeing the LCFY Sharks swimming
program as a whole, directly coaching the Gold and Silver training
groups as well as running the swimming lessons program. Teresa has
developed Sectional qualifiers, Grand Prix qualifiers, YMCA
National qualifiers, Quad qualifiers, Zone and Age Group individual
and relay champions and qualifiers, consistently placed swimmers in
the Top 16 in the Country for the past 7 years and had Age Group
Individuals as well as Team Hi Point winners. She was the Ohio Age
Group Coach of the Year for the 2006-2007 seasons and has served 2
times as an Ohio Zone coach.
Personal highlights
include: 2-Time Ohio High School
State Champion and Runner-up in the 100 breaststroke, Full-Athletic
Scholarship to The Ohio State University, 5 time NCAA
All-American, 3 time Individual Big Ten Champion, 4 year All- Big
Ten selection, Big Ten record Holder 50 Yard Breaststroke,
Co-Captain, 1984 Olympic Trial qualifier, and National Team member
at the World Student Games in 1983.
Teresa has a BS in
Psychology as well as a Master’s in the Psychological
Sociological Aspects of Sport. In 2002 she was inducted into The
Ohio State University’s Athletic Hall of Fame and in 2004 to
her High School Alma Mater, Newark High School Hall of Fame as only
the 2nd female ever to have received such award.
Teresa’s
coaching credentials include Age Group, Middle School, High School,
Master’s, as well as Assistant Swimming Coach for the
Men’s & Women’s programs at Texas A & M
University and Assistant Women’s coach at The University of
Illinois. She also spent a year teaching at The United States Coast
Guard Academy.
Cathy has been involved in the world of
swimming for more than 35 years, participating in learn to swim
lessons through the Red Cross, then competing on swimming teams
governed by the AAU, USS, YMCA, and NCAA. While a member of the
Northern Pikes Swim Club of Ausable Forks, New York, Cathy competed
in the inaugural Empire State Games in 1980. She then moved to
Connecticut and represented the Wilton Y Wahoo’s at YMCA
Nationals and USS Junior Nationals from 1980 to 1985. She competed
at the college level as a scholarship athlete for Purdue University
from 1985 to 1989, establishing school and pool records in distance
freestyle and earning Academic All Big Ten
honors.
While in her senior year at Purdue, Cathy also
served as a volunteer coach for the Lafayette Jefferson High School
Girls swim team. Always a technician, coaching young high school
swimmers reinforced her understanding of the importance of solid
fundamental skills for all levels and all ages of swimmers. After
graduating with a BS in Agriculture, she continued to refine her
techniques as a swim instructor and coach, including four years
with the swimming programs at the Worthington Swim
Club.
Cathy’s duties as an assistant coach for
the LCFY Sharks include coaching the Pre Swim Team and Bronze
groups which allows her to share her passion for swimming and her
technical expertise with young swimmers. She also serves as the
club’s Safety Coordinator for USA
Swimming.
Cathy is also a 4-H advisor in Knox County with
the Wild Columbia Tigers, maintains and shows a flock of registered
Shetland sheep, and runs a small fiber and yarn business featuring
wools from her flock. She has a daughter who swims for the LCFY
Sharks and who also competes in 4-H and open competitions with
poultry and sheep.
Kalani’s love of coaching swimmers was
born when she participated in her internship at the Tiffin YMCA as
part of her BS in Physical Education Recreation/Sports Management
requirements while at Heidelberg University. An athlete during both
high school and college, she competed in basketball, volleyball,
and tennis, and taught swimming lessons as
well.
During her internship, Kalani worked with the
Tiffin Torpedoes YMCA swim team and the Tiffin Columbia High School
swim team, applying the basic swimming skills she had been teaching
in learn to swim classes to competitive swimmers. She fully
believes that each and every swimmer she works with should have the
opportunity to master basic swimming skills as well as good
sportsmanship.
Kalani works primarily with our younger level
swimmers (Bull Shark- Great Whites) and helps coordinate the
swimming lessons program at the Licking County Family
YMCA.
Keith has been around the sport of swimming for 19 years.
He has been swimming and coaching since he was 7 years old.
Beginning with age group swimming, then moving on to high school
and college, and finally ending up where he is now with coaching
the sport. Keith grew up in Ontario, Ohio (the Mansfield
area), and was a 4 year varsity letter winner and a district
qualifier at Ontario High School. From there, he moved on to
Baldwin Wallace college where he was a breaststroker and a
sprint/mid-distance freestyler. At Baldwin Wallace, he was a
13 time all conference swimmer, a 2 time conference champion, broke
four school relay records, was a 4 year varsity letter winner and a
2 year co-captain. After college, he began coaching the
Newark High school swim team. In addition to Newark High, he has
also coached for SWAT, a USA team in the Cleveland area, and for
the summer swim team in his home town, as well as volunteer
coaching while he was a college swimmer with his former high school
team. Keith is married to his sweetheart from across the
sidewalk, Christie and they live in Granville. He graduated college
with a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Information Systems with
an emphasis in Network Administration. He puts his education to the
test at his 'real' job with the Licking County Educational Service
Center as their Technology Coordinator.
Susan started competitive swimming 10
years ago with the Licking County Family YMCA Swim Team, but has
been around pools her entire life. She was a varsity swimmer
for Newark High School; lettering her Junior and Senior
years. This is Susan’s fourth year as a coach for the
LCFY Sharks. She was also a volunteer coach for Newark’s swim
Team during her Freshman and Sophomore years of
college.
Susan is a 2005 graduate of Newark High
School. She is currently attending Ohio University and plans
to graduate in the spring of 2010 after completing an internship
with the Therapeutic Recreation Department of Columbus Parks and
Recreation. During college Susan was a member of the
Women’s Club Water Polo Team.
Susan’s favorite part about
coaching is being able to spread her knowledge of swimming with
young children. She likes helping children develop their
strokes and seeing them achieve their goals. Her future plans
include graduation, obtaining a job in Therapeutic Recreation and,
of course, coaching.
Coach Nick is a graduate of Newark Catholic
High School and is currently attending HockingCollege. He will graduate from Hocking College in the
winter of 2012 with an Associates Degree inSurgical Technology. He attended Wilmington College for a
year where he ran Cross-Country and Track.Nick also ran cross-country, track and swam at Newark
Catholic High School, where he mainly swam the200 and 500 free. He has been teaching swim lessons at
Licking County Family YMCA for 2 years now.
Juli Pintz is a Sports and Leisure Studies junior at The Ohio
State University. She began swimming with the Sharks and continued
at Newark Catholic, where she competed in the District Meet her
senior year. She enjoys distance swimming and competing in both
open water races and triathlons. She has been a lifeguard at
the Licking County Family YMCA for 4 years and has also
taught swim lessons. At Ohio State she is an office assistant for
the aquatics program. This is her first winter season
coaching with the Sharks (she is traveling from Columbus),
because the summer season was so much fun!
