Andy Korda
Head Coach
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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.
John Dissinger
Associate Head Coach
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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
Co Head Age Group Coach
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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 Bailey who is 13 and a daughter Ava Bailey who is 9.
Greg McLain
Co Head Age Group Coach
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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.
The Panthers have set 5
State Records and have had numerous State Champions and All
Americans.
Coach McLain is the
current President of the Texas Interscholastic Swimming Coaches
Association (TISCA) and was the High School speaker at the 2015
TISCA Clinic.
He returned to club
coaching in 2015, serving as an assistant coach for ESA. In
the spring of 2016, he became the primary coach of the junior
group, coaching sectional, TAGS and Gulf qualifiers as well as TAGS
Champions and NCSA qualifiers.
Coach McLain lives in
Kingwood with his wife Jennifer and daughter Erin.
Daisy Beals
Assistant Coach
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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
Assistant Coach
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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.
Sara Hays
Assistant Coach
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Sara has been coaching for 8 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 (12), Evan (10), and Bret (8).
Macy Moss
Assistant Coach
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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.
Josh Stibrich
Assistant Coach
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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.
Katy Stibrich
Assistant Coach
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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.
