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All AquaZot Swim Club coaches
are USA Swimming certified coaches with extensive backgrounds in
athletic education. They are specially trained to develop each
swimmer's aquatic skills at the rate appropriate for each
individual.
Brian Pajer founded the AquaZot
swim club in April 1999 after a success filled six year stint as
the head age group coach of Irvine Novaquatics. In the first year,
Brian’s leadership and coaching led the AquaZot team to win
the SCS Junior Olympic Championships and placed among the elite
teams at the US Nationals. The team continues to be competetive
locally and nationally.
Brian coaches the Senior 3 and AZOT
3 groups. He is also the Head Coach of the UC Irvine Men and
Women’s Swim Team. Contact Brian ataquazot@aol.com
Accomplishments:
2005. 2007 Big West Conference-
Coach of the year
2007 Big West Conferene - Men’s Champions
2005 Big West Conferene - Women’s Champions
1994 ASCA SCS - Age Group Coach of the Year
1994 ASCA Award -Stroke Technique Instruction Excellence Award
USA Swimming National Team Member 1991-1992
1992 Double Gold Medallist
1991 World University Games
2 Time UCI Big West Scholar Athlete of the Year
1989, 1990, 1991, NCAA All American
BS Degree in Physics from UCI
Jim Aumann joined Aquazot’s
in 2004 and coaches Zot 2 and Azot 1. He also is an assistant coach
for UCI Women’s Swim Team. He began coaching in 1993 at the
University of Utah after completing his fourth year of college
eligability. As a swimmer he participated at NCAA’s and the
US Nationals. He started two small USA Swimming club teams in Salt
Lake City, both of which produced Zone Championship finalists and
dozens of state record holders.Jim has a Bachelor of Science in
Communication Studies and holds an ASCA Level 3
certification.
Jim enjoys coaching because it
gives him the opportunity to help young people build self esteem,
responsiblity, independence, determination, and focus...all of
which have had monumental impacts in his life. In his time away
from the pool he works as a draftsman for several consulting
engineers. He enjoys drawing, music, surfing, sailing, snowboarding
and hanging out with his big 100 lb lap dog, Lincoln! Jim can be
reached atjim_aumann@hotmail.com.
Soliman atteneded Cal State
Fullerton and Majored in Excercise Physiology. Like Coach
Rian, he has been a member of the Aquazot family for many years a
swimmer and now in his fourth year as a coach. He was the
NCSA Junior National Team Assistant Coach in
2007.
Rian Wise is a graduate of UC
Irvine and has been a member of the Aquazot family for several
years first as a swimmer than as Coach. Rian coaches Azot 3
and is the assistant coach for Zot 1, Zot 2 and Zot 3. She
was a member of the UC Irvine championship swm team.
Aleah was a four-year water polo
player at UC Irvine. Aside from AQUAZOT, she is in her second
year as an assistant coach with the UC Irvine swim
team.
Todd
Hickman started competitive swimming at the age of 5. He was a
well rounded swimmer holding records in Orange County in fly,
free, and IM’s. At age 14 he broke the National Record in the
500 free and was first in the nation that year in 9 events. He won
CIF in the 200 IM his senior year and was first in the
nation in High School. He received a full ride scholarship to
the University of Arizona and was an NCAA All American in 1987.
After college he competed in his 3rd and final Olympic Trials in
1992 and was 9th in the 200 IM.
Since then, he was the athlete rep for Southern
California Swimming for the National Convention; where he held
positions in the Club Development Committee, Time Standards
Committee, Officials Committee, and
Athlete Accountant.
He
worked with Mark Schubert at USC as a stroke consultant for his
Swim Camps and College Team. He started coaching for
childhood teammate and friend Brian Pajer as the Senior 2 Swim
Coach in September 2006 till present.
Coach Todd’s everlasting devotion is
that his swimmers realize and achieve whatever particular
goals they set for themselves; and they find personal success
and satisfaction in knowing they made the effort to do
the best of which they are capable according to their own
level of competency.
Accomplishments:
Olympic Trials qualified &
finished top 16 3 times 1984, 1988, 1992
USA Nationals Qualified 9 years best finish 4th place 400 IM
Full Scholarship University of Arizona 1984 -1988
NCAA All American 1987
USA Junior National Team 1984-1985
Ranked top 15 in the USA and top 25 in the world 1984-1988 and
1991-1992
Age Group National Record Holder 13/14 boys 500 free
Member US National Lifeguard Team 1990
High School Swimming 1st in Nation 200 IM 1984
Athletes Rep. Southern California USA Swimming 3 years 1996 to
1998
Keith Ryan graduated from UC Irvine
in 2006 with his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, and is
nearing the completion of his Masters of Science in School
Counseling at Cal State Long Beach. Keith is also the co-head
swim coach at Edison High School where he recently lead the
Chargers girls team to a CIF division I championship in 2009, also
receiving girls coach of the year honors. Keith coaches the
AZOT 2 group, and remains active in triathlon and masters swimming
competitions while not on deck coaching.
Todd
Sousa is the founder and Executive Director of Swim Venture
Inc. He has been teaching and coaching swimming full time since
1994. Coach Todd was the Head Coach for Woodbridge High School from
2000 – 2005 in which he led Woodbridge to its first City
Championship in over a decade. In the development of the Swim
Venture program, Todd has focused his education on stroke technique
and baseline training. He spent four summers volunteering at swim
camps such as Stanford University, Auburn University and the
Colorado Olympic Training Center. Coach Todd’s experience
also includes eight years of private coaching using underwater
video and stroke analysis. He enjoys tracking the individual
progress of his swimmers and helping them stay passionate about the
sport.
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