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David Fisher Joins as Head Coach, Noah Brown as Associate Aquatic Director

We’re excited to announce that David Fisher has been named the new head coach of the YMCA Presidio Aquatics Club.  David was head coach of the men’s varsity and junior varsity swim teams at St. Ignatius Preparatory School in San Francisco for six years.  He has coached and mentored swimmers on every level from beginner and intermediate levels to CCS Champions, All Americans, All-American Relays, Junior National, and National Qualifiers. He also worked with Olympic Gold Medalist Ben Wildman-Tobriner.  In addition to coaching at St. Ignatius, David has been the head coach of the San Francisco Swim Delegation for the International Children’s Games for the past four years, which involves 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.

We’re also happy to announce that Noah Brown has been promoted to the position of Associate Aquatics Director for Youth and Teen Development.  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. 

Natalie Coughlin Swims with the Pirates!

Olympic gold medalist Natalie Coughlin joined the YMCA Presidio Aquatics Club for its regular Thursday morning practice one recent day.  Natalie warmed up and demonstrated some of her favorite drills to the 50 swimmers present, then cheered on during relays.  After practice the team got to sit down with Natalie and ask her questions about her career, her early years, the excitement of winning Olympic Gold, and her interest in cooking.

Pirate parent Mary Jane Call blogged about Natalie’s visit at her Wise Ideas site.

Want to Join the Team? 

We are constantly growing and training young swimmers to maintain a well rounded competitive swim team. Read more about the team, different swim groups and times, and our First mates programs on our Welcome page.  Please Click Here to send us an email request for more information and to schedule a try-out.  Please feel free to ask another member or coach any question you may have.  For more information contact Noah Brown, Associate Aquatics Director @ 415-447-9614, or email nbrown@ymcasf.org.