
Bob Strube
Head Coach
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Coach - Senior Elite (SRE) Group
Bob Strube has been coaching since
1977, and in the area since 1986. His list of accomplishments are
nearly unparalleled in Illinois and across the country. He has
coached 16 Olympic Trials swimmers, countless National Champions,
and dozens of state qualifiers. Many of his swimmers have earned
college swimming scholarships and have been named Captain of their
college teams. Many others have gone on to enjoy successful college
careers. Bob is the two time recipient of the YMCA Long Course
National Coach of the Year award. Because of Bob's personal
experience in swimming, having not begun swimming competitively
until the tenth grade, he is committed to providing something for
everyone, regardless of their ability or experience. He believes
that teaching swimmers Life Values through competition is more
important than fast times. He feels that learning the value of hard
work, discipline and self-respect though sportsmanship, respect for
others, will result in an overall successful person. Designing and
implementing a program which allows swimmers to achieve these
things will have successful swimming as a by-product.

Chris Del Galdo
Head Coach
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Coach - Age Group Elite
(AGE) Group
Chris Del Galdo has
coached swimming since 1989. Chris's teams have won 5 JO
State Championships and 12 YMCA State Championships. Chris's
swimmers have competed in 44 top 6 team finishes in Age Group State
Meet competition, over 75 individual event State Championships,
many relay state champions as well as several State Records. Chris
is the head coach of the Glenbard Co-op Swimming and Diving Team,
which encompasses Glenbard North and East High Schools and has
included 12 state qualifiers and a state relays in 2010 and 2015
and a top 20 finish at the high school state meet. He
also has coached the COD swim team in 1994, 1995,1996 and assisted
Marc Gamble as a College of DuPage coach, where he helped coach the
team to a second place finish at the NJCAA Championships. Chris has
coached all ages and ability levels during his 29 year coaching
career. Chris believes that young swimmers should be involved in
many activities as they grow up, so that they can choose to
participate in an activity which they enjoy. This helps create an
atmosphere in which swimmers feel they are involved in the true
sport of their choice once they reach the upper levels of the swim
team. He believes that each athlete deserves a full explanation of
all training and technique principles which are used in the
program. As a result, swimmers come to adopt their own philosophies
rather than to simply believe things “because the coach said
so." Chris and his wife reside in Wheaton and have two daughters
who attended Wheaton Warrenville South High School. They
participated in swimming collegiately - Lauren at Eastern Michigan
and Taylor at Rutgers University respectively. Chris is also the
Wheaton Swim Club private lesson coordinator. Please contact
Chris if you are interested in scheduling private lessons with any
of the coaches on the staff.

Seamus Stacey
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Coach - Gold Group
Séamus
is a former Irish Senior National Squad member with multiple Irish
Senior National titles to his name in 200, 400 & 1500 meter
freestyle. He had the honor of being Irish national team captain on
several occasions and competed abroad for his country at meets
around Europe and at the US Open. Séamus is a
graduate from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Business
Studies, where he spent two years training under the tutelage of
1996 Irish Olympian Earl McCarthy with whom he spent time on deck
assisting in 201. Once he hung up the goggles. Séamus moved to Naperville last
year from Ireland and is currently working as a Finance &
Accounting Associate while studying to complete his CIMA
qualifications in Management Accounting.

Christine Schrom
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Coach - Silver Group
Christine earned her teaching degree from St. Mary's College in
Notre Dame, IN and her Masters degree in Administration from Aurora
University. She is the Math Intervention Specialist at Glenn
Westlake Middle School in Lombard for 6th, 7th, and 8th
grade. She has 3 daughters who all swim for Wheaton Swim Club
- Jordan, Mackenzie, and Molly. Jordan and Kenzie also swim
for Naperville Central High School. During the summer,
Christine coached the 8 & under and 9/10 age groups
for the Woodridge Sea Lions from 2012-2018, and became the
Head Coach for the Butterfield Bullfrogs in 2019.
She received her USA Swim Coach license in 2017. In her
spare time, she also coaches her daughter's basketball and track
teams.

Victoria Cimino
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Coach - Bronze, Blue and Orange Groups
Victoria competed for the Wheaton Swim Club and Wheaton Coop High
School team under the guidance of Bob Strube and Jacob Ayers.
Victoria has been teaching group and private lessons with the
Wheaton Swim Club for 6 years and coached the Blue and Bronze teams
this Spring and Summer. Victoria graduated from Northern
Illinois University with a Bachelor of Health and Human Science
degree and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Speech
Pathology.

Angela Shaw
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Coach - Senior Group
Angela began swimming at the age of 8. Throughout her
swimming career, Angela swam for the Academy Bullets Swim Club and
Lake Park High School. As a recent graduate of Carthage
College, Angela's favorite swimming memory has to be winning the
CCIW Conference Championships for the first time in school
history. As a Lady Red, Angela focused primarily on IM,
breaststroke and butterfly. Angela received her degree in
Mathematics and currently teaches math at Wheaton North High School
as well as coaches with the girls co-op team. During the
summer Angela coaches the Itasca Dolphin Swim Team.

Marissa Savegnago
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Coach - Silver, Blue, Orange
Groups
In charge of Team Social
Media
Marissa is a recent grad from Univ Illinois at Chicago with a
bachelors degree in Industrial Design. During her time at UIC
she competed on their D1 Swim Team and was captain in her senior
year. Along with going to school Marissa also taught swim
lessons and coached for Wheaton Sport Center Stingrays and Chicago
Wolf Pack Aquatics. Before college she began swimming around
the age of 8 and swam for the Wheaton Sports Center as well as
Glenbard North/East Coop High School team. Since graduating
Marissa has started her own photography business serving clients
throughout the Chicagoland area. She shoots small weddings
and events, elopments, engagements and portraits. You can
find some of her work at msavdesign.com.
Marissa will be coaching and in handling all social media
for Wheaton.

Chris Dingfield
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Chris graduated from Wheaton
College in 2018 with a degree in economics. During his time at
Wheaton he was a 4 time All CCIW swimmer and was CCIW Male Swimmer
of the Year and NCAA All American in 200 butterfly in 2017.
Chris has been coaching and teaching swim lessons since 2014 an dis
currently employed as a consultant in private equities in Downer's
Grove.

Lee Hollman
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Coach - Gold, Silver, and
Blue Groups
Lee began his swim career at the age of 5 and competed for 17
years. During that time, he swam and coached
at the USA Swimming, High School, and NCAA levels prior to joining
the Wheaton Swim Club. Additionally, Lee remains a volunteer
assistant coach for the Wheaton College Varsity Swim Team. Lee
is a graduate of Carthage College where he received a B.A. dual
degree in Psychology and Criminal Justice. Lee received his
Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College in 2019
and is in the process of obtaining his Doctorate of Clinical
Psychology at Wheaton College with goals to pursue correctional
psychology upon graduation.

Luke Witteveen
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Coach - Senior, AGE, Silver, and
Blue Groups
Luke began swimming at the age of 6. He spent his career
swimming for Wheaton Swim Club, the Itasca Dolphins and the West
Chicago Sharks. Luke competed for the Glenbard North/East Men's
Swim Team in high school and just finished his college swim career
at Illinois Wesleyan Univeristy where he recently
graduated with a degree in Secondary Education/History and now
teaches locally at Lake Park High School. Luke focused primarily on
distance freestyle in college and his favorite memory was
breaking into the team's all time Top 10 list for the 1650 yard
freestyle his freshman year. During the summer Luke coaches
the Itasca Dolphins with his father and fellow Wheaton Swim Club
coach Angela.

Viktor Rusenas
Head Diving Coach
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Viktor is an alum of Naperville Central HS where he dovve
for 4 years and then continued diving for 4 additional years
at Western Illinois University. In all he has 14 years of
diving experience and one year of coaching experience. Viktor
worked with Wheaton Swim Club Diving program under the direction of
head coach Holly Higgins. He is also currently an assistant
coach for the Girls and Boys Diving and Boys Gymnastics at
Naperville Central. Outside of coaching, Viktor is in his 2nd year
working at Kingsley school as a Special Education teacher. He
enjoys teaching young minds new skills and watching them grow with
knowledge. Whether in the classroom or pool,
Viktor loves to help children discover their passion and
dreams.