John D Coffman
Head Coach, Elite Lead & COO
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John Coffman has been with NAAC as Head Coach since 2010 and will
lead the way for NAAC again this year. He has been a Swim
Coach since 1990, helped to create the Faster Swimming program with
former NAAC Coach Brad Burget, and has presented at the National
Level on swimming and athletic performance. John has helped
make NAAC what it is today through his expertise as well as the
ever present help of all of the NAAC Coaches, Staff, Board, and
Team Families, both past & present.
John
originally joined NAAC as a Coach in 2001 and has been with the
team since his family’s return from Florida in 2010. He
has been coaching at the HS and Club level since 1990 and has
coached State Champions in multiple sports at the HS level
(Swimming, Diving, Track & Field), as well as Top 10
individuals and relays at the Jr. National level in both Swimming
and Track & Field. John has coached over 50 seasons at
the HS level across sports and well over 100 seasons across sports
at the HS and Club levels combined.
John has
worked with a multitude of high-level athletes as a Performance
Coach across many sports and professions (Track & Field, MMA,
PGA, WTA, NFL, Special Forces, SWAT, etc) and prides himself on
being able to keep up with his athletes in any type of strength,
conditioning or speed work. He practices as he preaches in
regard to training, nutrition and sleep and asks the same of all
his athletes. John has also been a Sailing Instructor since
1991 and hopes to one day sail around the world with his wife,
Sacha, and daughters, Jenica & Sunshine.
As a
successful Coach with well over 100 seasons of practical experience
across several sports, a veteran performance coach, and a
competitive athlete himself - John has a true understanding of
elite performance.
Jen D Bernsdorf
Assistant Head Coach & Cyclone Co-Lead
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Jennifer Geschke
Bernsdorf has strong roots in the field of swimming dating back to
her childhood. Jen graduated from The Ohio State University with a
Bachelor’s of Science degree in the College of Human Ecology
majoring in Child and Family Development and then earned a
Bachelor’s Plus degree in Education with a concentration in
grades one through eight at Ashland
University.
During her early
years, Jen was a competitive swimmer in the summer league with
Highlands Swim Club. Swimming also in USSA swimming for the Greater
Columbus Swim Team and Westerville Aquatic Club she excelled in the
Backstroke and the Individual Medley. Jen was recruited by a number
of Ohio colleges to swim but decided to concentrate more on her
studies at the college level.
During her college years, Jen continued her love of swimming by
coaching her alma mater, Westerville South High School swim team.
After graduating she expanded her coaching abilities by coaching
the summer league at Highlands Pool in Westerville. In recent
years, Jen worked for the City of Westerville as an Aquatics
Manager for a multi-million dollar facility, continuing to stay
certified with CPR, First Aid and Water Swimming Instruction
qualifications.
Currently Jen is currently the Assitant Head Coach for the New
Albany Aquatics Club, and the Co-Lead Cyclone Coach with Coach
Coffman. She is also very active with volunteering in her
children’s school and does the bookkeeping for her
husband’s business.
Jen’s family includes her husband, Chad, and together they
have three children, Matthew, Andrew and Alaina, all of whom are
excellent swimmers and continue to exhibit their love of the
sport.
Cyndi Y Rubcich
Typhoon Lead & Home Meet AO
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Cyndi Rubcich serves as our Lead
Typhoon Coach, as our Lead Distrance Coach, and as our Home Meet
AO. Coach Cyndi brings nearly 30 years of competitive
coaching experience and has worked with swimmers of all ability
levels. Prior to New Albany, Cyndi spent 8 years coaching
WAC’s select age group swimmers and helped produce numerous
Junior Olympic, Zone and Sectional qualifiers as well as State
champions, State record holders and National Age Group Top 10
swimmers. She has also coached with Columbus Academy, NOVA of
Virginia, Medallion Country Club and Westerville JC.
Cyndi is a graduate of The Ohio
State University and worked as a public health grant writer and
program coordinator in Ohio and Virginia. She and her husband,
Dave, reside in Westerville and have two children – Murphy
and Cristian, both former NAAC swimmers.
Tyler B Prose
Hurricane Co-Lead Coach
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Tyler grew up in Westerville. In
high school he competed for Westerville North High School and New
Albany Aquatic Club. He competed on the OSU Swim Team and
graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in
Construction systems management. He was the head swim coach for
Dublin Jerome High School for eight years. He has been the lead
coach of the Wave, Tsunami, and Hurricane groups.
Rich L Morris
Tsunami & IM Lead, Hurricane Co-Lead
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Rich Morris has been swimming
since the age of 5. He grew up in Montreal, Canada and swam for
Pointe Claire Swim Club, making the national team at the age of 12.
He won numerous Quebec age-group titles and was age group record
holder in backstroke. He qualified for Canadian Nationals at 14 and
came in 6th Place at the Canadian World Championship
Trials as an 18 year old.
When Rich was 15, he moved to
Florida and swam with Jack Nelson at Fort Lauderdale Swim Team. He
was a multiple state qualifier in IM and Backstroke. In his senior
year, he won the Florida State High School Title in the 200 IM and
was runner-up in the 100 Backstroke. He achieved All-American
Status in both events. That same year he won 2 Junior National
titles in 200 Backstroke and 4x100 Medley Relay.
Rich competed for his birth
country of Canada several times and was The British Age Group
Champion in the 200 Backstroke in 1979 in Manchester, England. (the
birthplace of his mother). In 1981 he competed and medaled in
the Maccabi Games in Tel Aviv, Israel. Rich attended LSU as a
freshman and was a finalist at the SEC championships in 200
Backstroke. Rich transferred to FSU, was a teammate of Bob
Bowman and finished out his career swimming for the Seminoles, and
has competed at Senior Nationals multiple times.
Rich is the former Head Swim Coach
at Westerville North High School and also continues to swim Masters
for New Albany.
Rich is a Family Law Attorney and
is Married to Dakeena, and has 2 daughters, Morgan who now Coches
here at NAAC, and Marissa who attends Miami.
Rich loves swimming. Loves working
with swimmers and believes in hard work but wants the kids to have
fun at the same time and will challenge them to accomplish
both.
Lisa A Ross
Wave Lead Coach & Website
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Lisa has been coaching
with NAAC since 2015 and is our Lead Waves Coach.
Lisa has been our
webmaster since 2008 and has four sons who all swam with NAAC. So
far with NAAC coaching our age group swimmers, Lisa has
coached many Junior Olympic and Zone Qualifiers. She is
the former President and coach of the Chevington Woods
Kingfish Swim Team in
Pickerington, she coached the
Kingfish team from
2004 until 2013 and served as the President until
2018. The team has won
15 straight Tri County League Championships and has been
undefeated in dual meets since 2004! As a coach for the Kingfish
team she was privledged to coach three 2016, and
2020 Olympic Trial
Qualifiers and many NCAA division one
and two swimmers. Lisa coached swimming during her college
years in Canton, Ohio. As a swimmer she loved Breastroke and the
IM, and reminds her swimmers that back in the stone age she
didn't wear goggles at meets because at that time it they were
thought to slow you down! She is an Ohio
State University graduate and a veteran of the United States Air
Force. She is a professional photographer and owns a multimedia
business that specializes in web and social media
advertising.
Jennifer A Schimming
Ripple and Breaker Lead Coach
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Beginner Talent
Development
Jennifer has been part
of the NAAC family since the 2012 season. Prior to moving to
Ohio in January of 2012 from the Nashville, TN area, she worked as
the head coach for the Brentwood YMCA for seven years before
coaching for the Nashville Aquatic Club. Jennifer grew up in
Michigan where she swam for Michigan State University and graduated
in 1998 with a B.S. in Fisheries and
Wildlife.
Jennifer
also helps coach for the Plain Local Township Gators,
with former NAAC Coach Megan Labuhn. Jennifer lives in
New Albany with her husband and three
children.
Olivia A Barnes
Assistant Coach
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Olivia Barnes hs
been coaching with NAAC since 2015 as both a Lead and an Assistant
Coach and will be Assisting across groups this season. She
graduated from New Albany High School in 2011, is a member of the
NAHS "Wall of Fame", and also swam for NAAC during her HS years. In
college she coached with the Bobcat Swim Club in Athens,
Ohio.
John T Sands
Assistant Coach
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John Sands has been involved
in competitive swimming since the age of seven when he started
swimming at his local YMCA. John later began swimming year round
and eventually swam for Brad Burget at NASC where under
Brad’s tutelage he became a seven-time All-America selection
and the fastest high school 50-yard freestyler in the country in
2003-04 with a time of 20.19!
John was the Ohio High School State Champion in the
50-yard freestyle his senior year, and became the first high school
male to become an Ohio State University pool record holder,
breaking the 50-yard freestyle record (at the old pool). As a club
swimmer, John was a Junior National Champion in the 50 free, and a
part of the 17-18 year old age group national record holding
200-meter freestyle relay. John was also a part of relays that won
multiple Junior National titles, and qualified for Sr. Nationals
both individually and as a member of relays. John graduated from
Granville High School in Granville, Ohio in 2004, where he was high
school team captain and four-time high school team MVP.
John continued his swimming and academic career at
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a two
year letter winner and member of the ACC scoring team. John was
forced to retire after his sophomore year at UNC due to an ankle
injury. He graduated from UNC in 2008 with degrees in Political
Science and History. John received his teaching license from
Otterbein University in 2011 and is currently a teacher at
Westerville North High School.
John has been
coaching competitive swimming since 2002; coaching at Little Turtle
Country Club, New Albany Country Club, for the Chapel
Hill YMCA Swim Club before starting at NAAC where he has coached
every group from breakers to masters. John is also the Head Swim
Coach at The New Albany Links. He has coached all age groups and
abilities and enjoys working with John Coffman and the rest of the
staff who have taught him so much.
Dustin Gerken
Assistant Coach
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Dustin has been coaching with NAAC since 2014 and is again assisting with the Typhoon, Cyclone & Elite groups. Dustin swam and played water polo for Upper Arlington, graduating in 2003. He swam distance events and was an All-American in the 200 and 500 freestyle and 400 freestyle relay.
Dustin swims competitively with the New Albany Masters Team and competes in triathlons for fun. He works full-time as a designer based in Granville.
Ross L Hartley
Assistant Coach
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Ross has been a part of NAAC
family since the 2010 season. He is currently a middle school
teacher at Hannah Ashton Middle School in Reynoldsburg. Ross is a
competitive triathlete & coach, having won over 35 triathlons
and finishing as national champion runner-up twice (2009 and 2013).
Ross helps out across groups and leads our Summer Open Water group
as well as our Summer Triathlon intro group.
Morgan A Morris
Assistant Coach
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Morgan Morris grew up in Gahanna
and she attended Westerville North High School where she played
volleyball for 4 years and swam for the swim team for 3 years.
After graduation she attended Kent State University up until her
sophomore year where she then decided to come back home and
transfer to The Ohio State University of Newark to earn her
Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood education. She will be
graduating in May of 2019.
Morgan’s family includes her
father Rich who is the Tsunami Lead coach, her mother Dakeena, her
younger sister Marissa who attends Miami University and her
boyfriend Kevin who is in the US Army.
This is Morgan’s first time
coaching and she is very excited to be a part of NAAC and get to
know her swimmers to help them succeed throughout the
season.
Abby Stone
Assistant Coach
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Abby Stone grew up in Granville
and swam for NAAC for several years. She attended Granville High
School, where she was a 15-time High School All-American and was
the DII State Champion in the 100 back her senior year.
During her time at NAAC, she achieved qualifying times for Winter
Nationals, Winter Junior Nationals, Summer Junior Nationals, and
NCSA’s. She went on to swim in college for four years,
spending one year at Virginia Tech and the next three at Miami
University. Abby graduated this spring from Miami where she
majored in Kinesiology/Pre-Med. She will be staying in
Columbus and attending PA school at Ohio Dominican University next
fall. Abby has taught swim lessons in the summer for the past
four years and is excited for the opportunity to coach for
NAAC.
Matthew D Bernsdorf
Assistant Coach
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Matthew Bernsdorf grew up in
Westerville, Oh and attended WNHS, graduating in 2015. He
went on to swim at Ashland University for 4 years. He will
graduate in Dec 2019 with a degree in Special Education and plans
to become a Special Education Teacher in the Central Ohio area
after graduation. Matthew was a swimmer for NAAC for many
years and is the oldest son of NAAC Coach Jen Bernsdorf, and still
has family competing for the team. He has been a lifeguard
and taught swim lessons at Highlands Park Aquatic Center since
2013. He is happy to be coaching at NAAC and is excited to
watch all of the NAAC swimmers learn & grow in the sport of
swimming!
Jennifer P Parmentar
Financial
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Jennifer is our Financial Manager beginning in the Summer of
2018.
