2021-22 Coaches
NYAC welcomes Koji Takahashi
NYAC is thrilled to welcome Koji Takahashi as a new Development B coach. Koji has over 25 years of swimming and coaching experience. He started competitive swimming with ESWIM when he was 10 and started coaching when he was 16. Koji swam through post secondary in the US and continued to coach after graduation, here in Toronto. He has had the privilege of coaching in the US, Japan and Canada. In recent years, he has helped develop a high school team of 80 swimmers from an Ontario rank of 88th to 2nd place
NYAC welcomes Kris Sanders
Eddie Toro Director of Performance |
Years Coaching: | 10 Years |
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Favourite Set: | 0x (50 + 100) 4 on 1:10 1 on 2:00 Just make pace (both 50 and 100 are on the same pace time) |
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Why I Love Coaching: | "Swimming is my life’s passion, and being able to study it, understand it, and teach it is the very best way to honour my sport." |
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Heather Bruce Director of Coaches |
Years Coaching: | 9 Years | |
Favourite Set: | Swim a set totalling 4000 m and then go out for a trail run with my fellow young athletes and coaches at the Aquathon Camp is always the best morning ever. | ||
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Kwesi - Kwarko Fosu Development C |
Years Coaching: | 10 Years | |
Favourite Set: | Kamikaze | ||
Why I Love Coaching: | "I love watching hard work pay off, and I love to see people succeed and exceed their expectations and goals through courage, sacrifice, grit, and determination." | ||
Guillermo Toro 13 to 14 year old Lead Junior A |
Years Coaching: | 12 Years | |
Favourite Set: | 5 x [400 @FPP – 200 BK @4:00 – 100 free Best Average @2:00 – 50 easy @1:00] | ||
Why I Love Coaching: | "I love coaching because it gives me an opportunity to mentor swimmers, to challenge them, and to help them grow as athletes in and out of the pool." | ||
Steve Downs 10 & under Lead Youth |
Years Coaching | 32 Years | |
Favourite Set | The next one | ||
Why I Love Coaching: | "I love watching young athletes grow as athletes and people. Helping them understand how failure leads to success." | ||
Kashyap Gosai Senior A |
Years Coaching: | 10 Years | |
Favourite Set: |
4 x 25 @ 0:30 - DPS
4 x 50 @ 1:10 - 75%-80%
4 x 100 @ 2:00 - 85%-90%
4 x 200 @ 5:00 - MAX EFFORT
4 x 100 @ 2:00 - 85%-90%
4 x 50 @ 1:10 - DPS
4 x 25 @ 0:30 - MAX EFFORT
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Why I Love Coaching: | "To me, coaching is not simply helping to build the best athletes, but more importantly, coaching is about building the best people. I love coaching because of the role I play to help challenge swimmers in training, but also to them understand that the skills they are developing and mastering will help them be successful in all areas of their life. I love coaching because it allows me to help build a foundation of character, courage, and confidence." | ||
Daniel Pinto 11 to 12 year old Lead Development A |
Years Coaching: | 12 Years | |
Favourite Set: | ALL the kicksets!! | ||
Why I Love Coaching: | "I love coaching because the sport has given me my health. I was born with a disease, Perthes Calves, which means the femoral bone doesn’t get blood supply where it sits in the hip socket and the bone begins to die. Thanks to the doctors and their suggestion of swimming as rehabilitation, I was given the opportunity to walk again." | ||
Ryan Watts Senior B, Junior B |
Years Coaching: | 21 Years | |
Favourite Set: |
3x100 75% @1:45/1:50/2:00
6x50 sprint @ 1:00/1:10/1:20
100pull easy
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Why I Love Coaching: | "I love watching swimmers challenge themselves, be proud of their successes, learn and grow from disappointments and show good sportsmanship." |