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Along with our full-time coaches, our assistant
coaches complete our staff. Our assistant coaches have
experience coaching age group swimmers and several were
accomplished swimmers themsleves. The short bios below will
tell you a bit about our assistant coaches experience, swimming
background and their styles of working with swimmers. Please
feel free to contact them if you have questions about them or about
your swimmer’s work with them.
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Laura Cowley
National/Zone/State group
coach
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Coach Laura
Coach Laura Cowley
joined the Club Wolverine coaching staff after moving to Ann Arbor
with her family in June 2008. The Cowley’s lived in
Marquette, Michigan, prior to moving to Ann Arbor. Coach Laura has
coached swimming for the past four years. She is a certified YMCA
and USA swimming coach, and was also a certified YMCA and MHSAA
swimming official.
Coach Laura’s interest in swimming began
more than ten years ago watching her three children develop into
capable swimmers while living in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and
Michigan. Coach Laura and her family were fortunate enough
to have been exposed to exceptional coaching/mentoring from the
beginning of their swimming experience.
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Sally
Anderson
National/Zone group coach
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Sally
Coach Sally is an
assistant coach for our CW National/Zone/Sectional groups that
practice at EMU and also helps out as needed with the State II and
III groups. Sally started swimming for a summer club at the
age of five and continued swimming through her senior
year at Penn State. She was a three-time NCAA
qualifier at Penn State and received an honorable mention as an All
American. She also broke school records in the 500-free and
800- free relay while on the Penn State
women’s swim team. Sally was also an Olympic trial
qualifier.
Swimming was a part of Sally’s family growing up
in Somerset, New Jersey. Both of her parents were swim
coaches and her mother was a U.S. Olympic swimmer. Her dad is
still a high school coach for a team in New Jersey and her mom,
Sue, works at USA Swimming. "Swimming has
been such a huge part of my life since I was born... so to still be
involved with it just feels natural." Sally’s sister,
Katie, is a NCAA All-American and Olympic Trial qualifier.
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Mike Schmidt
Mike will work with our strength and
conditioning programs. Mike has returned to the Ann Arbor area
after working for Athlete’s Performance out of Arizona. At
Athlete’s Performance Mike worked with professional baseball
players designing their personal strength and conditioning
programs. Prior to taking his position with AP Mike was a strength
and conditioning coach at UM. At UM he worked with Women’s
Swimming and Baseball.
Mark Hill
State/National/Zone/Sectional Group
coach
Email:
markhill_67@hotmail.com
Mark comes to Ann Arbor from Key Largo,
Florida. Mark was the head age group coach at The Race Club in
Islamorada, Florida. Mark worked with U-M Men’s swim
coach Mike Bottom, who was at The Race Club before moving to Ann
Arbor. Mark also has coached high school swimming and masters
swimming. In addition, Mark has been an instructor for the past
three years at the Wolverine Swim Camps. In addition to coaching at
CW, Mark will also be working with the University of Michigan
Men’s Swimming program.
Currently, Mark is the lead coach in the
State 3 Group at Canham and is assisting in the Red National Group
with our older swimmers. CW swimmers appreciate Mark’s
knack for making swim practices fun and engaging while also having
an eagle-eye focus on the important details of swim technique and
training.
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Tim Haines
Tim comes to AA from Palo Alto, CA. Tim was a
senior coach at Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics while being a
substitute instructor at Stanford University. Tim has also been a
masters coach and assistant coach at Ladera Dolphins. Tim will be
attend graduate school at UM.
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Scott Cameron
Scott was a student assistant coach at Grand
Valley State University. He received his Bachelor degree in
Movement Science with a Coaching concentration. Scott has worked
with the UM swimming camp over the last two summers. Scott will
also be working with the UM Men’s Swimming program doing
video work.
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Jared
Jonas
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Jared
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Courtney Hilt
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Courtney
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Ashley Espinoza
Ashley was a
swimmer at Oakland University. In 2007-2008 she was given
the Academic All-Summit League Achievement Award. Ashley
comes from Dexter, MI where she was a key
swimmer on the Dexter High School Women’s Swim and Dive
team.
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Ryan Piza
Ryan comes to AA from
Eden Prairie, Minn. There he was a member of the national
club team Foxjet where he recorded a club record time in the
200-yard fly short course (1:56.68). Ryan was a swimmer
on the University of Michigan. He is currently
enrolled in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the
U-M.
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Noah Whitener
Noah comes
from Saline, Michigan. He was a four-year All-State honoree
and named All-American his Junior and Senior years of high
school along with being named captain of both swimming
and water polo as a senior. He was a swimmer at the
University of Michigan and two year recipient of the U-M Athletic
Academic Achievement Award. He is currently enrolled in the
College of Literature, Science and the Arts and is majoring in
Pre-Medicine.
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