Coaches & Directors

We are here to support your needs. If your questions are related to workouts, meets, events, goal setting, and other swimming related needs, please contact one of the coaches. For all questions related to administrative, such as dues, safety, or policy issues, please contact one of the board members.
Coaching Staff

Scott D Vanderzell

Head Coach

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Since 1995, Vanderzell has been the head coach for the Tonawanda Titans. During his tenure with the Titans, he has helped form the group into one of the premier swim clubs in New York State, illustrated by the fact that 20 of the club’s members qualified for the Zone Championships during the summer of 2008. Those 20 swimmers accounted for half of the Eastern zone team.

Tim M Bennett

Coach / Age Group Coordinator

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Tim Bennett has been coaching with the Titans since the summer of 1995. He is a Buffalo State College and University of Buffalo graduate. Swimming for Buffalo State, he set school records in the 200, 500, 1000, and 1650 freestyle events. He spent one year as an assistant coach at each of his Alma Maters. Prior to the Titans, Tim was a coach for the North Tonawanda Swim Club and summer clinic. Since joining the Titans, the team has grow from 75 swimmers to one of the largest in the Eastern Zone. In the past 14 years, the Titans have won several district championships, sent countless swimmers to the Eastern Zone Championships, Super Sectional Meets, Junior National, and Senior National Meets. We have had Zone Champions, National top 16, National Top 10 swimmers, and broken countless district records. Tim is proud to have been a part of this and plans on the team only doing bigger and better things. Tim, as part of the Titans staff, has twice been recognized as the Age Group Coach of the Year by the American Swim Coaches Association and believes that the entire staff is why we are one of the best swimming programs in the Eastern Zone.  “I am most proud of how many of our swimmers continue to swim past Titans, the ones that return to swim in the summer from college, the others that return to coach after college, and now they are beginning to bring us their kids.”

Brandi Boyle

Coach / SD-L2 Coordinator

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Michael Szyprowski

Coach

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Lindsay Dressel

Coach (L3 & L5)

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Jackie Kazimir

Coach (L3 & L5)

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Elexa Kopty

Coach

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Allison Lowes

Coach

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Kevin O'Donnell

Coach (L4 & L6)

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Randall Snodgrass

Coach

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Brian Webb

Coach (SD & L1)

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Samantha Yorko

Coach (SD & L1)

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Board of Directors

Debra Donnarumma

President

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Kevin Telford

Vice President

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Robert Harms

Treasurer

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Kevin McCarthy

Secretary

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Dennis Bigham

Meet Operations / Volunteers

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Debbie Federiconi

Hospitality

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Joseph Martin

Member-at-Large

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Michael McLaughlin

Information Technology

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Pat Scherer

Officials

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