Coaches & Directors

Rick Schaefer

Head Coach

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 Rick is a Certified USA Swimming Coach.  He has 9 years of competitive swimming experience and 7 years of coaching experience. He has coached the McHenry High School Girls Junior Varsity Team, YMCA McHenry County Piranhas and the McHenry Marlins Swim Team.  Rick also has coached multiple Age Group State / Junior Olympic qualifiers, Zone qualifiers and two YMCA State Champions. Rick received a B.A. in Special Education form Northeastern Illinois University and a Masters of Education from National Louis University. He currently is a Special Education teacher at McHenry High School.  

Rick had an outstanding first Winter Season with the Dolphins.  Under his tutledge, our swimmers recorded 55 new Team Records; we had 40 Regional Qualifiers & 21 Age Group State Qualifers.  We have five swimmers ranked among the "Top Ten" in Illinois; and our team standing increased 48%, placing us at #24 in the State of Illinois.   In the Summer Long Course Season an additional 66 records were broken, 33 swimmers qualifed for Age Group State & 6 athletes made Central Zone cuts. The team ranked #22 at the Summer Age Group Championships.  

Rick is married and has two children. He has been on all 3 sides of the swim program: as a swimmer, as a coach and as a swim parent.  We are delighted to have him as the Dolphins Head Coach

Home: 847-462-8108

schaeferrick@dist156.org(best between 7:00AM-2:00PM)

dundeedolphincoach@comcast.net(weekends and after practice)

Kristin M Skiba

Assistant Coach

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Kristin began her passion for swimming at a very young age.  She spent her winters swimming for the YMCA Piranhas, where she was a champion at the  YMCA District and State Meets, and qualified for YMCA Nationals. Kristin spent many summers swimming for the Trails of Algonquin Swim Team and was a NCISC champion.  It was there that she began her coaching career as a student coach. She immediately showed her coaching talents, and continued with the team the last 5 summers as an age group coach, and as Team Head Coach.  During her swimming career she qualified for high school state as a swimmer for Jacobs High School. Her specialty was freestyle.

Kristin recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee where she was recruited and swam for 2 years on a scholarship until injury ended her career. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and is currently working on her Master’s Degree. 

We are very excited to have Kristin as a member of our coaching staff!

Jamie Kosel

Junior Coach

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Jamie is a Certified USA Swim Coach.  She currently attends Jacobs High School, in Algonquin.  She began swimming at age 6 and has over 20 seasons of swim team experience with the Dundee Dolphins.  Jamie competes on the Varsity Swim Team for Jacobs High School and was awarded the “Sportsmanship Award” in November 2008. Jamie has several years experience teaching learn-to-swim lessons and student coaching the Jr. Dolphins and the Recreational Group swimmers for the Dundee Township Park District. 

Tim Kopka

DTPD Aquatics Supervisor #847-428-7131

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