Ryan P Sprang
Head Coach/Swim Team Director
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Ryan began his coaching career with GCIT/GPAC as an assistant age group and senior coach in 2002. Since that time he has coached club, high school, and summer league in New Jersey; club/YMCA in Virginia; and Club/YMCA and high school in Pennsylvania. Some of Ryan's coaching stops include:
GCIT/GPAC: 2002-2006
Greenwood Park Summer Club: 2002-2005 (Tri-County Champions in 2004)
St. Augustine Prep High School: 2002-2006 (NJ State Champions in 2004 & 2005)
Shenendoah Marlins Aquatic Club: 2006-2009 (Virginia Swimming Age Group Coach of the Year in 2008)
West Short YMCA: 2009-2010
Nittany Lion Aquatic Club: 2010-2017
State College Area High School: 2012-2017
Throughout his career, Ryan has coached numerous USA Swimming sectional, Junior National, and Senior National qualifiers. He has also coached several swimmers as age groupers who went>
Adam G Ritchie
Platinum A/Dryland Coordinator
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Adam
started his coaching career in 2008 at Sunnybrook Summer Swim Club
in Moorestown NJ where he was the head coach for 7 seasons.
Adam also began coaching at the South Jersey Aquatic Club (SJAC) in
2011. After one year as an assistant coach, Adam spent the
last 8 years as the head coach for the National Team. During
his time at SJAC, Adam has coached numerous swimmers to NCSA and
USA Swimming Junior National cuts. He also has coached many
USA Swimming Scholar-Athlete recipients as well as a NJ High School
State Champion. Adam graduated from, and swam for, Lehigh
University. He is currently employed as a school
psychologist, is a big CrossFit enthusiast, and loves pretty much
any type of physical activity.
David W Wakeley
Head Coach Bronze
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David Wakeley has been
coaching for the past 15 years in the Middle Atlantic Swimming
LSC. In addition, he did some summer coaching in State
College, PA while in college. He brings great excitement and
enthusiasm to pool deck … and his engineering
background. He encourages his swimmers to achieve their
highest level possible and not be satisfied with average
performance. Many of the swimmers have achieved levels of
participation in the following events: Mini Champs (including
high point winners and record holders), Junior Olympics (including
individual and are group high point winners and record holders), MA
Zone Team (including top 8 finishers), USA Swimming Top Sixteen,
Sectionals (including top 8 and 16 finishers), Junior Nationals,
Nationals, US Open and Olympic Trials (2012). He has also
served 3 years as a MA Zone coach and 1 summer as Head MA Zone
coach. He has earned a reputation as a stickler for stroke
mechanic detail and is a true student of the coaching
profession. He will leave no stone unturned to encourage our
swimmers improve at every level of their development. He
enjoys seeing his swimmers continue to improve at college level and
beyond.
Coach Dave and his wife
have six children: Jonathan (Liberty University), Joshua (Penn
State University), Bethany (Liberty University), Hannah (Liberty
University), and Peter and Laura. He graduated with a degree
in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University and brings his
scientific, technical bent to his coaching. He competed on
the colleges swimming and water polo teams and set the 200
Butterfly school record and swam the butterfly leg in the 400
Medley Relay team which set the freshman school
record.
Gregory Fondacaro
Head Coach Minis
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Coach Nick started swimming competitively at age 9 for the
Greenwood Park swim team, and swam with the team from 2006 until he
graduated in 2015. In addition to Greenwood Park, Nick swam with
GCIT Swimming/GPAC from 2007-2013, and swam for most of the coaches
he currently works with. From 2011-2015, he swam on the St.
Augustine Prep swim team, serving as a captain his senior year. His
specialty stroke was butterfly, and he qualified for the state
championships his senior year in the 100-yard
butterfly. After his swimming career ended in high
school, Nick wanted to pass the knowledge he learned, as well as
love for the sport, on to others, and he found coaching was the
perfect avenue.
Nick began coaching for Greenwood Park Frogs in 2016 and has
served as 1st assistant for the past 5 summers, and
continues to coach for the team in the summer. He was an assistant
at TNT Swimming at Rowan University, working with his former coach,
Tony Lisa, from 2016-2017. Nick graduated from St. Joseph's
University in the spring of 2020 with a bachelor's degree in
business administration, specializing in sports marketing. The Hawk
will never die! By day, he is the treasurer for Ninsa Solar, LLC,
and the controller for Jersey Boys Jerky, LLC.
Nick is now in his 5th season with the GPAC program. He started
as an assistant for multiple groups, including Bronze, Silver, Gold
1, Gold 2, and Platinum B. He served as the head coach of the Mini
group from 2018-2020 and is currently the head coach of the silver
group, which he began in the winter of 2021. He hopes to continue
to have a positive impact on all of the swimmers he coaches and
help them love the sport as much as he does. Go GPAC!
Linda DuBois
Assistant Coach
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I have been involved
in the sport of swimming since the age of seven when I swam for
Elmer . I continued my enthusiasm of being poolside by coaching in
the summer at Elmer Swim Club for several years. I was part of
parents group who began the swimming and diving program at Schalick
High School where I then have had the privilege of being head coach
for 19 years, then continuing as volunteer assistant to now be
completing 31 high school seasons. I began my officiating
career for USA swimming and as now a NJSIAA High School Swim
official for last several years. Working as Site Director for
South Jersey Finals and Semi-finals Championship meets and the
State Team Championships allows me to see many fast swims during
these meets. That sight never gets old! I am also Site
Director for the State Meet of Champions. In 1997, I was
named SJISA Coach of the Year. Previously, I was recognized
as Coach of the Year by NFHS in NJ swimming. I retired after 27
years from Pittsgrove School District allowing me to pursue some
more of my favorite things. I am pleased to begin being part
of the GPAC family as Head Coach of Technique & Fitness
group!
Shannon McKinnon
Assistant Coach
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Coach Shannon McKinnon has
a love for the sport of swimming. She has been a part of the sport
since 1985.
For thirteen years, she swam for the Tri-County team of Greenwood
Park and was an assistant with
the youngest groups during her last two years there. Coach Shannon
participated in four years of
high school swimming, and continued to swim at Division I Towson
University. Throughout her swimming
career, Coach Shannon received many medals and awards swimming the
sprint and middle distance
freestyles, IM, fly, and backstroke events.
Coach Shannon started
coaching again as an assistant for the Ocean City High School
Raiders back in 2006
and was the head coach of their diving team. From there, she moved
back up this way and in 2007 became
and currently continues to be the head coach of the Gloucester City
High School Lions, where she
also teaches Biology to sophomores and seniors. In 2008, she became
the head assistant coach at
Greenwood Park until 2013, when she became the head coach for a
summer. She has aided in the TNT
program over at Rowan University until 2010. The fall of 2009, she
joined the Greater Philadelphia Aquatics
Club coaching staff, and has worked with the Mini, Bronze, Silver,
Gold and Senior 1 groups as an
assistant. She has been the head coach for the Fall and Spring Warm
ups. This past summer of 2014, she
was the head coach of the Riverton Waves.
Coach Shannon currently
lives in Glendora with her husband, daughter and two dogs. She
enjoys football,
especially watching the Giants. She has played soccer for eight
years and was a dancer for 15 years.
She currently still surfs and snowboards when the opportunity comes
around.
Stephen Tucker
Assistant Coach
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Stephen Tucker is entering his 12th
year of coaching and 2nd year with GPAC coaching Bronze
and Platinum Level
Groups. Stephen began
his swimming career at Vineland YMCA and Elmer Swim Team, where he
swam since the age of 6. He went to Sacred Heart High
School where he was a four year varsity letter winner, holding
numerous team records and was a 3-time State Qualifier as well as
team captain his senior year. He continued his education and
swimming career at Rowan University under Longtime Former Head
Coach Tony Lisa. He was selected captain his junior and senior year
and also earned multiple All Conference and All-Academic honors
including Philadelphia Inquirer All Academic Team his senior
year. He graduated in
2010 with a B.A. in Health and Physical Education. He was also Head
Coach at Sterling High School from 2011-2013 where he led the team
to back to back division championships and was selected SJISA South
Jersey Coach of the year in 2012. Tucker is currently the Head Coach
at Elmer Swim Club since 2014. He has guided the team to an
extensive list of team championships and numerous club and league
records. He currently teaches in the Bridgeton Public School
District as a Health and Physical Education Teacher.
Matthew Sprang
Business Administrator
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Matthew has
been with GCIT/GPAC since 1998 and has served as an assistant
coach, Head Age Group Coach, and Head Coach.
Matthew
holds a Masters degree from Temple University in Sports and
Recreation Administration. He lives in Gloucester County with his
wife, Tjitske, and two children, Keegan and Marley.
