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.

Please contact the Head Coach Dia C. Rianda at coachdia@aol.com or (831)905-9890 for all questions related to administrative, safety, meet schedules, practice schedules, parent concerns, programs offered, team vision, and general  information .

Please contact one of the below listed board members for issues relating to team policy, fundraising, or  team governance.   Issues concerning coaching, swimmer discipline, or performance should always be taken up first with your childs coach.  The next step after you have spoken with their coach, and feel that the issue has not been resolved, is to ask for a meeting with the Head Coach.  Board members do not handle coaching issues.

Please contact (866)411-6228 for issues concerning dues, billing, team equipment purchases and scheduling of Swim America lessons .

Coaching Staff

Dia C Rianda

Head Coach/Team Manager/Senior Coach

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Current:

ASCA level 3 USA Swimming and High School Swimming Coach, AMR CPR, AMR Life Guard,AMR Coaches Safety Training, ASCA Lifetime Plus Member, NISCA Member, USA Swimming Lifetime Member, National Level 2 Stroke and Turn/Deck Referee, Swim America Franchise Licensed, Coach of 5 National All-Star Relay Record Teams 2004-2006, 2 USA Swimming Top 16 Athletes, Head Coach/Varsity Men’s Coach for Palma High School, Head Coach and Team Administrator for MCAT/SVA, CVAL League Champion Summer 2006, 5th Place Team Pacific Swimming Long Course Championships 2006, coach of 3 swimmer’s making Pacific Swimming Top Ten Rankings in 2006, coach of All American High School swimmers,17-18 Men’s and Women’s Coach Western Zones 2006,Sponsor of the USA Swimming Foundation.

Past:

Coach for Schubert Swim Camp (5 years), Head Coach MBSC @ Chamisal 2003-2005, Age Group and Junior Coach for SVA 1998-2003, Varsity Coach Notre Dame High School (2000,2001,2003), Pacific Grove High School Head Coach (2004-2005-2006), Pacific Swimming 17-18 Men’s and Women’s Coach Western Zones 2005,10& U Boys and Girls Coach Western Zones 2004,2003. Pacific Swimming Quad Meet Coach 2005, ZIS Secretary, Z1S V.P.

Amber N Kearney

Head Age Group Program Coach

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Amber Kearney joins MCAT in 2008, bringing with her 15 years of coaching experience. She has been hired as the Head Age Group Coach.  Her duties include assisting the Head Coach in guiding the performance programming of the team as it pertains to age group level swimming.  She is responsible for supervising other age group coaches involved in the USA Swimming aspect of SVA Inc.  We are very happy to have Amber as part of our team.

Parissa K.S. Shaghaghi

Age Group Coach-Swim America Director

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Pari is our Age Group Coach.  She has graduated from CSUMB with a degree in Social and Behavioral Science and a Minor in Coaching.   Pari is also the team’s Swim America  Assistant Program Director and Hartnell College site supervisor. Pari also coaches as the Head Women’s swim coach for Notre Dame High School as well as the JV Water Polo coach for Notre Dame High School.

Kaydi A Barrus

Novice Level Swim Coach-MCAT

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Kaydi Barrus joins the Monterey County Aquatic Team after being an accomplished competitive swimmer for the Woodland Aquatic Team and a water polo player for the CSUMB Team.   She also swam competitively for Sacramento State Swim Team.  She is now a member of our SVAM (Salinas Valley Aquatics Masters Team)  and she has worked for us for 2 years as a swim instructor.  We are excited to have such an accomplished swimmer as our novice level coach.

Kristen N Henry

Swim America Program Manager

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Coach  Kristen Henry is our most experienced Swim America Instructor.  She attends college at Arizona State University and will graduate in December of 2009 with a degree  in Education.  Kristen will be the Program Manager for our Swim America Program in 2009 and more specifically a site supervisor for our Alvarez site. 

Erin J Lee

Swim America Coordinator

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Erin is a Swim America Site Coordinator for our Swim America program.

Kamaron M Rianda

Sr. Asst,Life Guard & Seasonal Admin

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Kamaron is a USA Swimming Certified Coach and is ASCA level 2 certified.  Kam has been coaching for over 4 years and has been and taught swim lessons for 4 years prior to that.  He has been a competitive swimmer for over 12 years.  All League, Team captain, CCS Qualifier, Sectional and Western Zone Participant.  Currently he swims for SVAM (Salinas Valley Aquatics Masters) and returns to coach for the summer as senior assistant coach.

Board of Directors

John R Leonard

President

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Matt B Best

Board 1st V.P.

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Amy Teresa Monge-Rianda

Treasurer

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Jackson L Dy

Secretary

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Jim M Hashimoto

Parliamentarian

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Peter Marsiguerra

Board Member at Large

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Sandra Lynn Whalen

Board Member at Large

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Dia C Rianda

Ex-officio Brd. Member & Head Coach

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