Coaches & Directors

Coaching Staff

Chris Daly

Head Coach

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Chris Daly comes from Wallingford, Pennsylvania where he was the Head Assistant Coach at Swarthmore College and Head Age Group Coach at Suburban Swim Center. He was well known at both places for the way he fosters and creates a positive and competitive team spirit.  
 
During Chris's time coaching at Swarthmore, he assisted with several All-Americans and National qualifiers.  As a Head Age group coach for Suburban, he has coached every age group, from Pre-Team to their National Team.  He has assisted numerous High School All-Americans as well as several Senior National and Olympic Trial Qualifiers.  He believes in giving a strong technical background that focuses swimmers on all aspects of the sport.

Chris coaches our senior swimmers as well as our Junior Plus group.

Brad Meacham

Head Age Group Coach

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Brad swam competitively for 12 years.  In 1984, he won the 200 IM at CCS. He also won the 200 IM at Junior Nationals and qualified for Senior Nationals in both the 200 and 400 IMs.  He went on to compete at Senior Nationals the next three years. Currently, Brad trains every morning and competes in masters swimming. In May of 2007, Brad won three National Titles in the 100, 200 and 400 IMs at the Masters Short Course Nationals in Federal Way , Washington. He also broke a Pacific Masters Short Course record in the 100 IM. Aside from swimming, Brad is a mortgage broker and private investor. He attended UC Davis and majored in Economics. Brad likes doing just about anything as long as it is outdoors.

 

Elven McKnight

Assistant Coach

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Elven is an experienced swimmer and instructor who grew up swimming for SUNN and later at UC Santa Cruz.  He is an excellent instructor who has worked with all age groups and has been our Head Summer Team coach most recently.  He currently coaches our Seal, Blue and Silver groups.

Fiona Hayes

Assistant coach

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Fiona Hayes is an experienced assistant coach and swim instructor.  She has been responsible for overseeing a swim lessons program, as well as coaching Pre-Competetive swimmers and entry level Masters.   She has a background in education and is currently in graduate school to finalize a teaching credential.