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Coach
Trotter - Head Coach, Senior Coach & Senior
Development
Coach Trotter brings tremendous excitement to the
position, with great swimming experience, organization and
communication skills, he’s poised to be a swimmer
favorite. He brings 15 years of swimming experience with 18
All-American swims and 2 NCAA Div II national championships. He
swam with and against some of the biggest names in swimming in
Southern California. His experience as a coach goes back many
years. While attending California State University at Bakersfield
he studied kinesiology with an emphasis on coaching swimming. While
at CSUB, he helped coached and mentored under a USA Swimming Hall of Fame
coach at Mission Viejo
Nadadores. Lately, he was the assistant swim coach for Briggs
Community YMCA in Olympia, WA.
Coach Ken - Gold
Group 
Coach Ken joins Evergreen Swim Club with great
enthusiasm and goals for the upcoming season. As a lifelong
swimmer, water polo player, and surfer Ken has a great
understanding for the sport of competitive swimming. Competing as a 10 & under he
remembers the challenge of his first meet, belly flops off the
blocks and finishing the 25 backstroke with his head not his
hand. The first qualification meet he attended was Far
Westerns as an 11-12 sprint freestyler, motivated by the 1984 Los
Angeles Summer Olympics.At the
high school level Ken enjoyed four years of Washington State
Championship competition finishing as high as 4th individually, and participating in a 4 x 100
Freestyle championship relay.
Success with swimming led to Water Polo where
some of his greatest achievements occurred. Twice, Ken was
invited to national development camps at the Olympic Training
Center. At the age of 17 he was the youngest player at the
1991 Men’s Senior National Tournament, receiving lessons
first hand from Olympic athletes representing their home
teams.These great experiences
as an age group athlete encouraged Ken to begin coaching 8 years
ago. The goal of winning races has shifted to helping others
experience the joy in competition and the esteem of personal
bests.
 Silver Coach Betsy Shoemaker
Betsy is no newcomer to
working with kids in the water. Through her work
with the community of Port Angeles she established and
began polishing her skills as a leader
through her dedication in working with kids and
teaching swimming.
Betsy has been employed in
pools for over five years and have been teaching Red Cross Swimming
Lessons as a certfied Water Safety Instructor for three and a half
of those years. During high school she gained a reputation for
being a dependable as a waterfront lifeguard and working
summer camp jobs with organizations like the YMCA, Campfire U.S.A,
and The Boys and Girls Club.
Betsy
is a
student at the Evergreen State College and currently continuing
work as an instructor in Olympia under the title of Head Swim
Instructor at the Evergreen State College Pool. Throughout the year
sshe has taught many levels of swimming, including
precompetition level swimming and diving. In addition to being an
instructor, she has been a competitive swimmer as well.
For three years she swam with the Port Angeles High
School Swim team, her favorite events are the 50 and
100-yard freestyle and the 100-yard breaststroke.
Betsy belives her passion for the sport and devotion to
teaching will prove vital to her success as a coach and a member of
this Team.
Coach Scott - Bronze
Group 
Coach Scott
is the perfect coach to introduce the young ones to swimming and
infuse them with enthusiasm. Under Scott tutelage they
will become to love the water and learn the basic stroke techniques
they need to move up. Coach Scott has been with ESC for 8
years.
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