David Fisher
Head Coach
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David became head coach of the YMCA Presidio Aquatics Club in
September 2009. Previously he was head coach for six years of
the men’s varsity and junior varsity swim teams at St.
Ignatius Preparatory School in San Francisco, where he took many
swimmers to WCAL and CCS Championship meets. He has coached
and mentored swimmers on every level from beginner level,
intermediate level, CCS Champions, All Americans, All-American
Relays, Jr. National and National Qualifiers. He also worked with
Olympic Gold Medalist and San Francisco native Ben
Wildman-Tobriner. For the past four years, David has been the
head coach of the San Francisco Swim Delegation for the
International Children’s Games, an Olympic-style annual
competition with children from around the world. David swam
in high school and college, and was captain of the San Francisco
State University swim team his senior year, where he achieved the
fourth highest single-season point total in school history.
DeLorean Reese
Assistant Coach
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DeLorean has been assistant coach at the YMCA Presidio Aquatics
Club since the summer of 2008. DeLorean coaches all levels of
swimmers, with a particular emphasis on "Red" Lanes. Prior to
joining the Presidio Pirates, DeLorean coached the youth swim team
at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center. DeLorean swam
competitively in high school and college in her home state of
Pennsylvania.
Flynn O'Brien
Assistant Coach
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Flynn became an assistant coach at the YMCA Presidio
Aquatics Club in the Spring of 2009. Flynn coaches all levels
of the team, with a particular emphasis on "Blue" Lanes.
Flynn has been involved in competitive swimming since the age of
7. He swam all four years in high school, his
senior year as captain, and two years with a junior college where
he earned All-American status. He also played club water polo
in Marin, four years in high school, two as captain, and two
years with a junior college, his last year as captain, and both
years earned All-American. In early 2008 Flynn came to the
Presidio YMCA where he coaches youth water polo and taught swim
lessons.
Cary Fulbright
Volunteer Assistant Coach
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Cary has been a volunteer assistant coach for the YMCA Presidio
Aquatics Club since 2005, and has coached swimmers for over ten
years. Cary swam competitively throughout his childhood and
was captain of his high school swim team in his senior year.
He taught swimming for five summers at Trinity School Day Camp in
New York City, and also helped coach the Trinity Aquatics Club for
two years. Cary is a masters swimmer at the Presidio YMCA,
and an ASCA Level 2 certified coach.
Noah Brown
Associate Director of Youth Development
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Noah joined
the Presidio YMCA in 2006. He has been the Community
Development Coordinator since 2008 and has worked on providing free
swim lesson programming and water safety education to hundreds of
youth and families in our city through the YMCA of San
Francisco’s Waves for Change program. Noah uses his
experience in grant writing and fundraising to help support
bringing underserved youth onto the team as well as expand
opportunity for growth and team expansion developing community
driven programming to support the swim team and its families.
Noah also has an extensive background in competitive swimming and
program development, including collegiate level swimming,
experiance as Head Coach for the Foresthill Stingrays for two years
and work with the National Swim School Association on curriculum
development.
