Joshua W Trotter
Head Coach
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Coach Trotter brings tremendous excitement to the position,
with great swimming experience, organization and communication
skills, he’s poised to be a swimmer favorite. He brings
15 years of swimming experience with 18 All-American swims and 2
NCAA Div II national championships. He swam with and against some
of the biggest names in swimming in Southern California.
His experience as a coach goes back many years. While
attending California State University at Bakersfield he studied
kinesiology with an emphasis on coaching swimming. While at
CSUB, he helped coached and mentored under a USA Swimming
Hall of Fame coach at Mission Viejo Nadadores. Lately, he was the
assistant swim coach for Briggs Community YMCA in Olympia,
WA.
Ken Rice
Gold Age Group Coach
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Coach Ken
Joins Evergreen Swim Club with great enthusiasm and goals for
the upcoming season. As a lifelong swimmer, water polo
player, and surfer Ken has a great understanding for the sport of
competitive swimming.
Competing as a 10 & under he remembers the challenge of his
first meet, belly flops off the blocks and finishing the 25
backstroke with his head not his hand. The first
qualification meet he attended was Far Westerns as an 11-12 sprint
freestyler, motivated by the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
At the high school level Ken enjoyed four years of Washington State
Championship competition finishing as high as 4th
individually, and participating in a 4 x 100 Freestyle championship
relay.
Success with swimming led to Water Polo where some of his greatest
achievements occurred. Twice, Ken was invited to national
development camps at the Olympic Training Center. At the age
of 17 he was the youngest player at the 1991 Men’s Senior
National Tournament, receiving lessons first hand from Olympic
athletes representing their home teams.
These great experiences as an age group athlete encouraged Ken to
begin coaching 8 years ago. The goal of winning races has
shifted to helping others experience the joy in competition and the
esteem of personal bests.
Ken’s first day with the club, his first request of the
swimmers,
“Support
the team”.
“Support
the team”.
“Support
the team”.“Support the
team”.
Scott Putzier
Bronze Age Group Coach
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Scott is the perfect coach to
introduce the young ones to swimming and infuse them with
enthusiasm. Under Scott tutelage swimmers will
come to love the water and learn the basic stroke techniques they
need to move up. Coach Scott has been with ESC for 8
years.
