Coaches & Directors

Tex started swimming just before his 5th birthday and enjoyed 15 years of it as a swimmer -- for the past 18 years, he has enjoyed swimming as a coach.  During summers while attending Rice University, Tex got his start coaching a summer league team for 4 seasons in Houston.  After graduation, Tex stayed in Houston and coached with the Cy-Fair Swim Club and the Jersey Village High School team.  He then moved to Petersburg, Alaska to coach the Viking Swim Club, a team of 60 swimmers on an island (one of the world’s most beautiful and rainy places).

In the 5 years that Tex coached in Alaska, the team grew tremendously.  Tex traveled often to the "lower 48" states for Sectional, Junior National and Zone meets and coach a dozen state records, a few Sectional Age Group champions, and countless State Champions.  He was named Alaska Age Group Coach of the Year in 2002 after his boys relay finished 12th in the nation in the 200 Medley Relay.

He moved to Farmington, New Mexico to coach the Four Corners Aquatic Team (FCAT), another small team that grew under his leadership.  There, his team looked towards the Western Zone meet as a marker of their success, qualifying 3 swimmers in 2004, 5 in 2005, 7 in 2006 and finally 13 in 2007 when the Western Zone Championships were held in Farmington.  Along the way, Tex received the New Mexico Age Group Coach of the Year award in 2005 and saw swimmers progress from State qualifiers to Western Zones finalists and Sectional finalists.

Tex moved to the Broomfield Barracudas in March of 2008 to offer a solid swimming program from the beginning swimmer to the Olympic Trials.  Tex is committed to the work, patience, perseverance, and task of building a winning Club!

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Andrew started swimming at age nine for the Evergreen Hurricanes and swam high school for the Evergreen Cougars, where he was a part of a state champion medley relay team his senior year. Andrew was actually recruited as a cross country runner before he was recruited as a swimmer. He swam collegiately at the University of North Dakota and qualified for NCAA nationals all four years. Andrew was named an honorable mention All-American his Junior year and All-American his senior year. During the summers while in college, Andrew was the head coach of a summer club team in Bailey, CO. He coached swimmers who still hold numerous Colorado seasonal state records and had multiple top eight finishes at the JO’s meet, from kids who only swam three months out of the year. After college in 2006 Andrew moved to Denver and began coaching for the Broomfield Barracudas and for Northglenn High School. In his first season coaching at Northglenn, Andrew was voted Front Range League Coach of the Year by his peers. During his time with the CUDAs, Andrew has been instrumental in leading the age group program as the club transitioned Head Coaches and has developed multiple Colorado state champions. 

Hailing from Chicago, Tom brings over 15 years of competitive swimming experience to the CUDAs. Swimming for the Academy Bullets in Aurora Illinois, Tom was a member of a Junior National Championship team in 1995, a Nationally ranked age group swimmer, Illinois High School State record holder and State Champion. He also swam on scholarship for the University of Tampa where he was All-American and an NCAA qualifier in his lone full season before injuries set in. Recently he graduated with his Master’s in Teaching from University of South Florida in Tampa and relocated here to Broomfield. Tom is now a successful open water swimmer, and has a great focus on stroke technique due to his prior injuries with the sport. His enthusiasm for the sport shines while working with our age groupers as he balances fun and learning daily.

Hailing also from Chicago, Jonathan started his swimming career early learning to swim before learning to walk. Jonathan’s passion for swimming accompanied with hard work and great coaching lead to a memorable career. Career highlights include; Junior National Qualifier, Illinois High School Swimming state record holder, scoring member of Indiana University Swim Team. Jonathan is a butterflyer and freestyler and offers special coaching insight into those strokes. Previous to joining the Barracudas, Jonathan spent summers as a developmental swim instructor and coach for the Still Water Stars in Naperville. Jonathan’s main goal for the Barracudas is to ensure that every swimmer is excited about swimming. Jonathan hopes his love for swimming and knowledge of the sport will shine through him to make each swimmer faster.