Coaching Staff and Board of Directors

Coach Andy comes to Blue Tide from KATY Aquatics where he most recently has been the High Performance Coach, working with competitive swimmers who have earned Sectionals cuts through Olympic Trials times. Andy’s proven leadership includes developing National and Olympic Trial qualifiers as well as developing a National Age Group (NAG) number one ranking athlete.

As Head Age Group Coach, Andy helped KATY Aquatics grow into top ten placements at TAGS, including several individual champions. He also has coached NCSA Junior National finalists, Speedo Junior National finalists, and National finalists.

Coach Andy is widely known and regarded throughout Gulf Swimming both for his coaching talents and his service on the Gulf Swimming Board as Age Group Chair, Safety Chair, and At Large Member. Andy was the 2017 Gulf Senior Coach of the Year. He also has been a three-time Gulf Head Zones Coach, two- time Gulf All Star Head Coach, and the 2012 West Texas Head Zones Coach. He was a speaker at the ASCA 2018 Texas Legends Coaches Clinic and will be speaking at the 2019 ASCA World Clinic.

Previously, Andy was the Head Coach of the City of Midland Aquatics swimming program, and the Head Age Group Coach at Cy-Fair Swim Club. A Katy native, Andy and his wife, Lisa, have a young son, Jayden.

Coach Dissinger has worked in swimming in the Kingwood area for over 20 years. He also serves as the Head Girls' Swimming Coach at Kingwood Park High School. Since his arrival at KPHS the Girls team has captured four straight Region Championships and recently finished 2nd in the 2018 5A State Championships.  His swimmers have also captured numerous All State Awards. 

Coach Dissinger recently served as the President of the Eagle Swimming Association. Under his guidance swimmers captured numerous Individual and Relay State Champions, State Records and one National Record.

As the former Head Age Group coach of Blue Tide he coached numerous swimmers to state championships and national rankings which also include numerous state records and three relays that captured national championships. He was the head age group coach of two Texas Age Group Championship teams. For all of his swimmers’ accomplishments he was named 2001 Gulf Swimming and the 2002 Texas Swimming Age Group Coach of the year.  Coach Dissinger has a BS and MS in Physical Education from Western Kentucky University where he was a four year letterman and Team Captain for the Hilltoppers.  He and his wife Sharon have three children Spencer (Oklahoma State), A.J. (Texas State), Merritt (former swimmer at Penn State) with her husband Tony and granddaughter Jolie.

Tara Bailey has 15 years of experience coaching swim at multiple levels. She spent 4 years as the Head Coach of the Winchester Hurricanes Summer League, 3 years as a Junior Varsity Coach for Summer Creek High, 4 years as a Head Coach for Jersey Village High School, 4 years as a Head Coach for Summer Creek High School, 5 years as a Head Age Group Coach for Crimson Gold Aquatics and Eagle Swimming Association, and 1 year as a Senior/Head Coach for Crimson Gold Aquatics.

During these times she has coached many TAGS qualifiers, Tags Finalist, TAGs Record holders, State Qualifiers for High School, State Champions, and several swimmers who went.

She swam for a year round program called TMAC and then move to DADs Club. She also swam for Mayde Creek High School, and was team Captain MVP and a record holder in the 100 fly and 100 back. She later swim in College at Delta State University.

Coach Bailey has two children a son Miles and a daughter Ava.

Coach McLain brings over 20 years of coaching experience to Blue Tide Aquatics, including summer league, high school and club coaching.  He began coaching summer league after graduation from high school, and graduated from Southwest Texas State University with a degree in Exercise and Sports Science. During his tenure as Head Boys Coach at Kingwood Park, his teams have won 4 State Championships, along with a second, third, fourth and fifth place finish.  The Panthers have won 7 Region Championships as well as 9 straight District Championships.

Coach McLain has been named the Boys TISCA State Swimming Coach of the Year 3 Times (2010, 2011, 2015), Region Coach of the Year 11 times (Swimming and Diving) and District Coach of the Year 11 times (Swimming and Diving).  In 2015, he was named the National Federation of High School (NFHS) State and Regional Boys Swimming Coach of the Year.

Daisy Beals has been in competitive swimming since the age of 9, when she was actually little!  She swam for BTA while in High School as well as KHS. After graduation she was presented an opportunity to embark upon a new adventure at the University of Oklahoma, to take the strengths and discipline she had acquired from swimming and utilize them in a completely new way, Rowing. As part of Oklahomas Women's Rowing team she was instrumental in helping her team take back to back BIG12 Championships home. Coach Daisy knows what it takes to be a college athlete and is here to help mentor those that have this aspiration. Daisy holds a BA degree in Communication. She landed back home in the Kingwood area after graduating, where she is following her passion of teaching and coaching swimmers. Over the past few years, Daisy has been the Head Coach for the Mills Branch Woodstream Marlins as well as coaching Northeast Houston Aquatics. She is thrilled to be coaching with Blue Tide and looks forward to helping all swimmers reach their potential!

Laurie Grafmiller is the Orange Group lead coach.  She comes to us with a huge passion for the sport of swimming and a very positive and hardworking attitude that forges great relationships with our swimmers. 

As a swimmer Laurie received very high accolades.  Competing for the University of Arizona, Laurie was a member of an NCAA Championship Relay as well as earning numerous NCAA All-American honors.  In addition, Laurie finished 11th in the 200 free at the 1996 Olympic Trials.

Laurie started coaching in 2014.  Since that time, she has coached several TAGS top eight finalists and most recently at the 2018 SC TAGS, a 9-10 Boys 2nd Place finish.

When she is not on deck she enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband, Todd and her own BTA swimmers, Madison, Kylee, and Tyler.

Coach Sara has been coaching for 10 yrs.  She started swimming at the age of 9 in Buffalo, New York.  She competed for Kenmore West High School and was a 12 time Niagara Frontier League Champion and helped her team to be NFL Team Champions her Junior and Senior years.  Sara was an 8 time Sectional All Star and Sectional Champion in the 200 Freestyle.  In 2005, she was inducted into her high school's Hall of Fame.  After high school, she went on to compete for Ashland University in Ohio.  There she was a member of the Penn-Ohio Conference team and an 11 time All American.  Sara left the corporate world when she had her first son, and decided to come back to swimming in 2006 when she joined the coaching staff at NEHA.  She coached for 3 years, and left after her 3rd son was born.  Sara came back to coaching in 2012 and joined the Blue Tide coaching staff.  She is very enthusiastic about the sport and loves to see her swimmers excel.  Sara lives in Kingwood with her husband, Mike, and 3 sons. Jack(14), Evan (13), and Bret (11).

Coach Macy is a Level 1 ASCA coach. She started swimming when she was 11 years old and swam for Blue Tide Aquatics her sophomore and junior year of high school. During her time on BTA she qualified for the 2013 Sectionals in the 100 and 200 breaststroke. Coach Macy also was apart of the 200 medley relay swimming the breaststroke leg at Junior Nationals. This is her third year year with Blue Tide Aquatics and loves coaching the kids! Coach Macy helps out with our Tidalwave and White groups, and is the lead coach for the Silver group. 

Coach Josh has been in the sport of swimming for over 30 years.  He began swimming outside of New Orleans at the age of 9 for the Bellemeade Sharks.  He was a multiple state champion for his club team New Orleans Aquatic (NOA) in backstroke and freestyle events where he was coached by Hall of Fame coach Ray Woods. At Lutheran High in Metairie, LA, he was state champion in both the 100 back and 100 free (breaking the LA Division II state record). In college, he competed all 4 years at Louisiana State University where he met his wife Katy (McBride), who was a native of Kingwood and former Blue Tide swimmer.  He continues to be a student of the sport applying that knowledge to both his swimmers and his own competitions in masters’ swimming events and triathlons. His coaching career began while in college, coaching summer league teams and at his home club NOA.  After a period of time developing his career in internal audit, he returned to coaching at ESA as an assistant and lead coach in their junior group.  He looks forward to helping develop the love of swimming he has with those he coaches, and will coach, at Blue Tide.  When he is not coaching, he works as the Director of Internal Audit at Insperity. He and Katy have 2 swimming children, Luke and Lizzy.  

Assistant Coach Katy Stibrich began coaching with BTA in 2006. She is a 1997 graduate of Kingwood High School where she was voted team captain her senior year. During her 4 years in high school she also competed with Blue Tide Aquatics. In high school Katy was a high school All-American and a Junior National qualifier. She is a 2001 graduate of Louisiana State University where she swam for 2 years. For 2 years Katy was the assistant coach for the Kingwood High School swim team. She has also coached summer league swimming in the Kingwood area for the last 6 years including Trailwood Gators and Fosters Mill / Kings Point Waves. Coach Katy works with the Blue Group.

Coach Meredith started competitive swimming at the age of 6 years old in Fort Worth, Texas. Growing up, she swam for Metroplex Aquatics and qualified for TAGS. In high school, she competed at the State Championship meet 3 times and was also a 5 time record holder for Aledo High School. After attending Texas A&M for college, she moved to Kingwood to pursue a career as a science teacher at KPHS. She has been coaching for 5 years; however, this is her first year on Blue Tide and she is loving every second of it! Her favorite thing is to see her swimmers confidence and love of the sport grow over time. Coach Meredith is currently coaching the Tidal Wave and Orange groups.