Luke R Schumm
Head Coach / Senior Coach
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Luke came to CSST in the Fall of
2012 and served as the Head Age Group Coach with CSST for 7 years
before moving to Head Coach in the Fall of 2019. In his time with
CSST, Coach Luke has worked with numerous Junior National
qualifiers, Sectional qualifiers, State qualifiers, State scorers,
State Champions, Team CO All-Star and Zone members, and nationally
ranked swimmers. Before coming to CSST, Luke was the Head Coach of
the Kenosha Barracuda/Patriot Swim Team in Kenosha, WI for seven
years. In his time in Wisconsin, the team saw nearly 100 new team
records, more than doubled in size, and moved locations to a brand
new 50M pool. Luke was awarded the CO Age Group Coach of the Year
award in 2015, the WI LSC Outstanding Service Award in 2012, and
was a USA Swimming Western Zone Junior Select Camp Coach in
2018. Luke has also served as a Team WI Zone coach, Team CO Zone
coach, and Team CO All Star coach.
Luke lives in Colorado Springs
with his wife - Maggie - who is an Asthma/Allergy NP Specialist and
their four children - Kendall, Kieran, Kenton, &
Kinley.
"I want to challenge every
swimmer to do a little more than they thought they previously
could. Any person who keeps meeting challenges to the best of their
ability will never fail."
Meghan Harder
Head Age Group Coach / Gold Coach
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The 2019-2020 season marks Meghan’s first
as the Head Age Group Coach of CSST. Meghan started coaching with
CSST in the fall of 2018 as an assistant to the senior program.
Prior to her time with CSST, Meghan spent the 2017-2018 season as
the Assistant Swimming Coach for the men’s and women’s
programs at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. While there, she
coached multiple men and women to conference honors, and four men
to NCAA All-American Honorable Mention honors. From 2015-2018,
Meghan spent her summers working the Stanford Swim
Camps.
Meghan graduated from the College of St. Benedict
in 2017 where she majored in Education with an emphasis in
Mathematics and a minor in Psychology. Meghan currently lives in
Colorado Springs.
"If I can offer one piece of advice, it would be
to learn to control the mind and train each day with a positive
attitude." -Eliud Kipchoge
Karen A Reeder
Senior Assistant Coach
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Karen was a professional
marathon swimmer and a graduate of the United States Air Force
Academy. While at the Academy, she swam fours years, and
earned two MVP awards. While there, she was a 16 time NCAA
Division II All-American and the NCAA II National Champion in the
400IM. In 2013, she was inducted into the Air Force Academy
Athletic Hall of Fame.
Her swimming career
continued, after graduating from the Academy. In 1994, she
set a world record, swimming the Catalina Channel. In 1991,
she was the Bronze medalist at the 25K World Championship in Perth,
Australia. Following that, she won Gold in the 1992, 25km
World Cup in Lac St Jean, Canada. In 1993, she completed the
English Channel solo swim. In both 1996 and 1997 she was the World
Series Marathon Swimming Champion. In 1998, she placed 10th in the
25kM open water World Championship, representing the USA. She
is a six-time US open water National Champion.
Her coaching credentials
include Assistant Coach for the Men's and Women's Swim teams at the
USAFA from 1988-1992. In 1993, she switched to coaching the
Air Force Aquatics Masters Swim team and did this for 8 years.
During this time, she coached the swim teams at Doherty High
School from 1998-2003. In 2012, she joined CSST as an
assistant coach, coaching both the Silver and Gold teams and later
joining the coaching staff of the Senior team.
Karen lives in Colorado
Springs, with her husband, Dave and two sons, who all swim for
CSST. Swimming is her favorite athletic
activity.
"Swimming is more than
just an athletic pursuit. It teaches young people life
lessons about adversity and triumph, failure and
success."
Collin DuChene
JR/SR Asst. Coach; Dryland Coordinator
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Coach Collin is coming to CSST from Wisconsin in the Summer of 2020
to serve as a dryland specialist for the team, as well as help
coach the Junior and Senior teams. Collin swam competitively for 10
years for the Pleasant Prairie Patriots and then finished his
swimming career with four years of swimming at the University
of Wisconsin Green Bay.
Collin began his coaching career by helping the Howard Swaumico
Storm Breakers during the spring and summer seasons in 2016 and
2017. Post-graduation Collin began coaching for the Pleasant
Prairie Patriots where he had the opportunity to coach state,
sectional, and junior national qualifiers during the 2019-2020
winter season.
Collin is continuing his education through Concordia University of
Chicago to obtain his Masters in exercise science with an emphasis
in strength and conditioning and is excited to bring his experience
in the pool as well as his knowledge obtained in the classroom to
CSST.
Jack Rork
COS Silver Coach
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Brady aaron Shyrock
WH Gold Coach
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My
Background:
- Swam competitively 1988-1997 (1991 to 1993 w/FAST, 1993-1997
University of North Dakota)
- Assistant Coach at University of North Dakota 1998-1999
- Out of swimming until 2008
- Coached with Falfins developmental & senior groups from
2009 to 2015
- Rapids Class III Age Group Coach from Aug 2015 to July 2019
- CSST Assistant Age Group Coach from Aug 2019 to present
- Spread time coaching with senior level swimmers to age group
& developmental groups.
- Coached High School Prep Group exclusively for two years
- Two Team’s Dryland Coach; advocate for all around
fitness
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- I also work primarily as an engieer with the engineering degree
I received from theUniversity of North Dakota. I am a
certified, licensed professional engineer in the state of
Colorado. I enjoy being acitve, going on hikes and
participating in obstacle races such as Tough Mudder and Spartan. I
cherish time spent with family.
“
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have
those because we have acted rightly. We are what we
repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a
habit
”
~Aristotle
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- I enjoy being acitve, going on hikes
Lee Schumm
WH Silver Coach
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Jamie K Louie
Masters Team Coach
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Jamie has been coaching the CSST Masters team for
over 20 years. He has a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering
from UC Berkeley. He competes regularly at local and National
Masters swim meets. Jamie has been a Masters All-American and was
USMS National Champion in the 200M Breaststroke and 200M IM in the
1989 USMS LC National Championships. In 2007 and 1999, Jamie was
voted the COMSA Coach of the Year.
Oberlin
College AB Physics
UC Berkeley MS
Mechanical Engineering
Swimming
– Team Co-Captain Senior Year
Mesa
Laboratories, Inc.
Coached CSST
Masters for approximately 24 years
Co-Coached CSST
Seniors for approx 6 months until Mike Doane was
hired.
Kari L Leach
Office Manager
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Kari is the office
administrator for CSST, as well as assistant coach where needed.
She has been coaching age group swimming for 22
years.
Kari was a Junior
National Swimmer in the 50 and 100 freestyle in high school. She
swam for Arizona State University, and graduated from CSU Long
Beach California with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Recreation and
Leisure Studies. Kari played water polo for the Long Beach State
Club Team and was a member of the 1987 US National B Team for
Women’s water polo. She coached age group water polo in
Southern California, as well as masters swimming, before moving to
Colorado Springs.
Kari has been with CSST
since 1997 coaching at the Gold and Silver level, as well as office
administrator for 3 years previous. She started the women’s
water polo program at Colorado College in 2004 and coached the team
for 6 years before the program was cut at the end of the 2009
season. She was also the assistant Men’s and Women’s
swim coach at Colorado College during those years.
Kari is married to Jason
and has three children, Rachel, Kyle and Ryan. Jason is a fireman
and travels on the CSST senior team trips as a chaperone.
Rachel is studying educaiton at CSU Pueblo. Kyle, a
national level swimmer who was born and raised swimming on
CSST, is competiting in NCAA Division 1 siwmming
at Univ of Missouri (Mizzou). Ryan is a freshman at
Northern Michigan University where he competes in NCAA Division 2
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