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We are here to support the needs of our swimmers and parents. If your question is related to workouts, meets, events, goal setting, or anything else swimming related please contact the appropriate coach at the email listed below.

For all administrative questions such as: membership dues, safety, or policy issues, please contact Nick at office@CondorsSwimming.com.

Coaching Staff

Don Wagner

Condors Head Coach

Don was the former Head Men’s and Women’s Coach at the University of Alabama and Head Women’s Coach at Texas A&M. He has coached many Olympians, most notably Janet Evans when she broke the 800 LCM Freestyle World Record...a record that was the longest-standing World Record until the 2008 Olympic Games when is was finally broken. Don is a six time U.S. National Team coach with multiple Olympians to his credit and he is looking forward to developing many more with the Condors.

Jeff Allen

Head Coach Westchester

Jeff brings 30 years of coaching experience to the Condor’s Staff. He has been the head coach for the Darien YMCA, Darien High School, the Naperville YMCA and most recently the Wilton Y Wahoos. Jeff’s teams have all won their perspective Championships with the Wahoos winning 9 YMCA National Team Titles between 1999 and 2005. Jeff also coached Dan Shevchick to a Bronze Medal in the 1999 Pan AM Games. Coach of the Year honors have been bestowed on Jeff for Connecticut High School, Connecticut Swimming and the YMCA of the USA. Jeff was a member of the USA Olympic International Operations Committee, President of the National YMCA Coaches Association and a member of Connecticut Swimmings Board of Directors. Jeff is extremely excited to begin a new chapter in his coaching career with the Condors.

Jim Wargo

Head Age Group & Asst. Senior Coach

Jim was recently honored as the Allegheny Mountain LSC Coach of the Year (2008). He has been a head coach for eight years, and comes from Penn Trafford Aqua Club, which is located in Harrison City, Pennsylvania. At PTAC, Jim worked with all levels of the team and developed three super sectional participants, fourteen zone participants, two swimmers with National Reportable Times and one swimmer who broke two Allegheny Mountain LSC records. Jim has also served as Head Coach and Assistant coach for the Allegheny Mountain Zone Team. PTAC broke 107 team records during his coaching tenure. Jim swam at Indiana University of Pennsylvania under Head Coaches Peter Ward and Matt Tallman. He is looking forward to being a valuable member of the Condors family.

Bob Carlucci

Club President

Bob’s unlimited contacts, resources and years of experience make him Rockland County’s premier swim coach. Bob was the head coach of the Condors from 1980 when he founded the team until Summer 2008. As a swimmer, Bob was a two-time champion in the New York City Public High School Championships, including the 100 Breaststroke. As a coach, Bob has developed top breastrokers in Rockland County including a boy’s county record holder. He has coached swimmers at many levels from Rockland County Summer Swim League Champions to Senior National Qualifiers. Bob has developed top Age Group swimmers including many nationally ranked top 16 swimmers. He has brought dozens of swimmers to Junior Nationals and YMCA Nationals, helping many to receive Division I swimming scholarships.

J.P Carlucci

Program Director

J.P. swam his entire USA swimming career with the Condors Swim Club. During high school, he was voted the Rockland County Swimmer of the Year (2001); won the Section I Sportsmanship Award; and was chosen as a Scholar-Athlete of the Week by the Journal News. J.P. matriculated to MIT and began his four-year college swimming career eventually becoming a two-time NCAA All-American. As captain in his senior year, J.P. set MIT records in the 50 Breaststroke, 100 Breaststroke, 200 Freestyle Relay, 200 Medley Relay, and 400 Medley Relay. J.P. qualified for the NCAA Championship meet in the 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke, 200 Freestyle Relay, 200 Medley Relay, and 400 Medley Relay.

Nicolas C Chevalier

Lessons & Team Administrator, Coach

Nick swam for Don Lemieux and the Greenwood Memorial Swim Club of Gardner, MA where he was a Junior National qualifier and multiple-time NH state high school champion. Nick then received a scholarship to Marist College where he still holds 2 school records. He is also a recent graduate of Quinnipiac University’s MBA program where he was a Graduate Assistant in the Athletic Communications department. Nick has been teaching swimming lessons for almost 10 years and has coached with the Marist Swim Club and the Cheshire C-Dogs. Nick currently heads the Condors Learn-to-Swim program in addition to coaching the Bronze group and handling team administration.

Jason Reyes

Pre-Team and Stroke Development Coach

Born and Raised In Anchorage Alaska and graduated from West Anchorage High School in 1994. Became a Certified Personal Trainer in the summer of 1994. Worked in various facilities as a CPT for 10 Years before starting his own Personal Training Company 180⁰Fitness In 2004. As an avid mountain bike racer and fitness enthusiast Jason began to race Xterra off-road format Triathlon where most recently in 2009 he qualified for the national championships in Ogden, Utah. He is currently pursuing an invitation to the 2010 Xterra world Championships in Maui. In addition to racing, coaching and running his business, Jason has recently gone back to school to peruse a degree in childhood education.

Victor Penaloza

Age Group Coach - Westchester

Victor Penaloza started the riptides swim team where he coached for 6 years. He served as an assistant coach for 2 years then became the head coach. When he took over as head coach the team grew from 45 kids to 115. They swam in W.F.S.L. (Westchester Fairfield Swim League) where in Victor’s first year as head coach the team jumped from 16 out of 16 teams to 3^rd in the league. The following year they took 2^nd at the w.f.s.l. where the team broke 56 league records. Victor also sent swimmers to the YMCA state meet and brought home a total of 8 state individual champions the last four seasons. His teams most recently won the YMCA State title for 12 & under boys and sent 4 swimmers to the YMCA National Meet (2009). Victor has also had numerous athletes compete at the Junior Olympics, Zone Q, and Senior Mets. He has a great connection with his athletes and has been a great asset to the program.

Jon Hulbert

Age Group Coach - Westchester

Jon was a coach at the White Plains YMCA for 3 years before coming to Condors in 2009. He has helped develop 4 YMCA national swimmers and 5 YMCA State Champions. He looks forward to building on the success that the Condors have already achieved. Jon also swam for the Condors for 3 years, as well as his White Plains High School team. He is working on his bachelor's degree in education at WCC.

Keith Furey

Asst. Senior Coach

Keith swam for the Rockland County Dolphins (AAU) from 1974 to 1981 and also competed on two Rockland County Summer Swim League teams: the Town of Clarkstown (1973-1979 - where he was coached by none other than Bob Carlucci!) and the West Nyack Swim Club (1980). As a Four Year Letterman for the Clarkstown South High School Varsity Swimming Team, Keith was a co-captain in 1981, a recipient of both the MVP and Coaches Awards and is a former school record holder in the 100 Backstroke and the 200 Medley Relay. Keith took a break from swimming, to start as an Attackmen for the Division I US Air Force Academy Lacrosse Team for two years, before transferring to Manhattan College where he swam on the Men’s Swim Team from 1983 to 1985, qualifying for the Metropolitan Collegiate Swimming Conference Championships in multiple events both years and serving as a co-captain his Senior Year.

Keith began coaching for the Condors in 2005 and also currently coaches the Clarkstown High School Boys Varsity Program.

Alex Vislov

Silver Group Coach

Nicole Young

Silver Group Coach

Nicole swam at varsity level from 7th - 12th grade at NRHS, State Qualifier Junior and Senior Year. She also worked as a developmental level coach for NRAC for three years currently known as Team Rockland.

Nicole attended to Queens College where she swam Division II and played Division I water polo for four years on an athletic scholarship. She has a Bachelors in Exercise Science and Physical Education from Queens College, a Masters in Exercise Physiology, also from Queens College and a second Masters in Health Education from Lehman College.

Nicole has worked as the assistant swim coach at Queens College for one year after graduating, then obtained a teaching position at the Bronx High School of Science where she also coached varsity for one year. She is an American Red Cross Water Safety & Lifeguard Instructor as well as a New York State Open Water Test Examiner as well as a certified Lifeguard for 15 years.

She has coached boys and girls varsity swimming at North Rockland High School.

Nicole joined our coaching team in February 2008.

Craig Cummings

Asst. Senior Group Coach

Craig began his coaching career with the Paramus Red Waves in 1985 and was their Advanced Senior Group Coach through 1986. He joined our team of coaches in 2006.

As an Age Group swimmer, Craig swam for the Paramus Red Wave and the Rockland County Dolphins. He was the New Jersey Seniors State Champion in the 200 and 400 IM, 200 Breaststroke and 1000 Freestyle; the Eastern Seaboard Long Course Champion in the 400 IM; the Region I Champion in the 400 IM; and a Junior National Medalist in multiple events.

As an Age Group swimmer, Craig swam for the Paramus Red Wave and the Rockland County Dolphins. He was the New Jersey Seniors State Champion in the 200 and 400 IM, 200 Breaststroke and 100 Freestyle; the Eastern Seaboard Long Course Champion in the 400 IM; the Region I Champion in the 400 IM; and a Junior National Medalist in multiple events. Craig swam for LaSalle University and was captain his junior and senior years (1984 & 1985). During this college career, Craig was the East Coast Conference Most Valuable Swimmer in 1983, the Metro Atlantic Conference Most Valuable Swimmer in 1984, a Senior National Qualifier 1981-1985 and an Olympic Trial Qualifier in 1984 in the 200 Breastroke.

Mila Razumovskiy

Stroke Development Coach

In 1993, Mila and her husband moved to America from the Ukraine, where she was born and raised. She joined our team of coaches shortly thereafter in 1994.

Mila began swimming at age eleven and throughout her Age Group swimming career she swam for Vodnik (1959-1962) and Sprtak (1963-1967). Mila swam at the international level in the Ukraine. While earning her Bachelor’s Degree in physical education at the Institute of Physical Culture in Kiev, Mila began coaching for Vodnik (1967-1989). After 22 years of coaching for Vodnik, Mila spent four years coaching for Avangard (1989-1993), where she worked with swimmers ages eleven to sixteen.

Alice Wagner

Stroke Development Coach

Lisa Giglio

Stroke Development Coach

Lisa joined our team of coaches in 2005.

As an Age Group swimmer, Lisa swam for Bob on the Rockland County Dolphins and then followed him when he began the Condors in 1980. At the age of fifteen, Lisa swam for the Paramus Red Waves for a year and for the Bergen Barracudas during the remainder of her high school swimming career. Lisa received a swimming scholarship to Hartwick College, where she swam for one year before returning to Rockland County where she finished her degree at St. Thomas Aquinas College.

Bobby Trenczer

Gold Group Coach

Bobby swam for the Condors since the team’s inception in 1980. He started his coaching career with the Condors in 2004. He was the 10 & Under YMCA 50 Free State Champion (1986), a member of the Metropolitan Zone team as an 11-12 (1988), YMCA Nationals Qualifier (1991-1993), member of the Section I Championship 200 Medley Relay (1991). In college, Bobby was a member of the Division I West Point team (1993-1994) and Captain of the MIT swim team (1996-1997). After college, Bobby was ranked top 10 nationally in United States Master Swimming in the 100 Back and 200 Free Relay (2002).

John Edwards

Assistant Coach

John joined the Condors team of coaches in 2004. Throughout his more than 20 years of coaching, John has trained swimmers of all ages and abilities. He is an expert on swimming techniques and drills.

John has been coaching in Rockland County longer than any other current coach, with the exception of Bob. John began his coaching career in 1984 as the Ardsley Union Free School District’s Junior Varsity Swimming and Diving (Boys’ and Girls’) coach and in 1985 was the head coach for their Coed Middle School Swimming Team. From 1984-1994, John was Co-Head Coach for the Town of Orangetown/Sharks Swim Club. During that time, he was also the Girls’ Junior Varsity Swim Coach (1985-1994) and the Boys’ Junior Varsity Swim Coach (1992-1994) for the South Orangetown Central School District. In 1995, John became an assistant coach for North Rockland Aquatic Club, now known as Team Rockland Swimming and remained with them until 2004. John was the Head Coach for Clarkstown High Schools’ Girls’ and Boys’ swim teams for the 2006-2007 season.