Rob as been a valuable part of COOL Swim Team for 9 years, the last 5 as our Head Coach. He directly coaches our Lightning and High School groups, leads our coaching staff of 14 part-time coaches, and works with the Board of Directors to provide vision and direction for our team. In 2019, Rob was voted the Missouri Valley Senior Coach of the Year, after also being nominated for the same award in 2017. He is ASCA Level 2 certified.

Rob's experience both in the water as a competitive swimmer and on deck as a coach is impressive. He began swimming competitively at age 12 and continued through high school, receiving several offers of full swimming scholarships. Rob has coached swimmers of all ages and abilities for the past 12 years.  His roles have included head coach for the St. Charles Barracudas, novice and age group coach for the Warrensburg Pirahannas, and head senior coach for Team Dolphin. 

Rob's swimmers had a record year in the pool during the 2018-19 season. Two of his swimmers qualified for Speedo Winter Junior Nationals and Speedo Summer Junior Nationals, and one earned a U.S. Open cut. All of these were firsts in our team history. Rob also had a record number of athletes qualify for NCSA Junior Nationals and Speedo Sectionals this year. From last year's graduating class, he has 4 swimmers and 1 rower on college scholarships. 

Rob also runs his own company, Aquatic Solutions, that operates in the Kansas City area. 

Rodney is happy to be back on the COOL Swim Team coaching staff again, after being the head coach in 1997-98.

Rodney started his coaching career in 1988 as an assistant coach for a USS/USA YMCA club team in Northern Indiana. Following this he was head age group coach or head coach for seven years at the club and high school levels in Indiana and Ohio. He produced two Junior National qualifiers during that time. 

The last year in Ohio, Rodney was an assistant coach with Baldwin Wallace College, an NCAA Division II school.

That year his spouse was transferred to Overland Park, Kansas. He started coaching in Missouri Valley in 1996 with Longview Aquatics. He has been coaching different levels in Missouri Valley for the last 21 years. He has been a member of the Zone Team coaching staff twice working with the 15 and over girls and the 13-14 girls during the competition.

Rodney has a PE degree from Indiana University. He has been involved with aquatics since 1983. 

Kristin began her swim career in Manhattan, KS competing with the Manhattan Marlins from age 10 to 18.  She also lifeguarded and taught swim lessons for 5 years.  Kristin brought her enthusiasm for coaching and love of the sport to the deck in the summer of 2010, and has coached all levels for COOL.  Kristin is currently the site coach at Blue Valley Southwest, as well as the Assistant Head Coach for the Olathe South boys' and girls' swim teams. Additionally, she is the head coach for the Nottingham by the Green Gator swim team in the summer. She and her husband have 3 children, all who swim for COOL around their fall and spring sport schedules.  Kristin is ASCA Level 2 certified. 

Ty has a well-rounded swim background, bringing over 16 years as an aquatic instructor and as a four-year letterman swimmer at Chaska HS (MN) and Blue Valley West. Ty was the Head Coach for the Olathe Cyclones last summer, a Johnson County summer league team. Still not finding that to be enough time around water, Ty is also the assistant swim coach for the Olathe Northwest boy's and girl's swim teams. He is overflowing with enthusiasm for the sport and a genuine love of teaching!

After a career in graphic design and marketing, Coach Mueller chose to become a high school teacher and coach. This fall, he will be entering his 19th year of teaching Art and 22nd year of coach the varsity swim teams at Bishop Miege High School. Coach Mueller has been involved in USA Swimming for a total of 15 years as both an assistant head coach and a head coach with area swim clubs. As the head coach for Bishop Miege hisboys' team won the state title in 2014 and was runner-up in 2018. Hisgirls' were state champs in 2017 and runners-up in 2016. His teams have been in the top 5 at State for the last 5 years. Coach Mueller has helped over 30 swimmers obtain Speedo All-American status and helped over 50 swimmers receive scholarships for colleges ranging from NAIA to Division 1. In 2014 he was the Kansas High School Swim Coach of the Year. His swimmers hold multiple state records individually and in relays for Kansas.

Coach Mueller’s philosophy is to encourage swimmers to achieve their best through positive reinforcement no matter what their swim level may be. Technique training has been a major key to successfully developing swimmers. The success he has achieved is because swimmers know that he cares about them in and out of the pool.

Laura began her swimming career at the age of six months at a YWCA in Upstate New York. From a military family, Laura swam in pools around the world, most notability in South Korea and Hawaii. Her specialty was distance freestyle and any event that people complained about being "too hard" (like the 400 IM). In college, she swam with the Emporia Aquatics Club until she needed to focus on her studies (BSE in Elementary Education, Middle School English and English Language Learners, 2002). Currently, Laura holds a Level 2 ASCA certification, with continuing education credits in sports pyschology.

An educator, she loves combining education and swimming. She began as a volunteer coach in South Carolina and eventually worked as a deck coach in Bonner Springs and was head coach at the Olathe Family Y (2008). In 2014, she joined the Kansas City Blazers as a deck coach before joining COOL in 2017. She has coached two summer league teams, including COOL's own Marlins, and taught swim lessons at the J. 

Laura is also our Private Lesson Coordinator and the Safe Sport Coordinator for our team. She lives in Overland Park with her husband, four children and two dogs.

Skip began his aquatic interest as the child of an Army Staff Sgt. who loved the water as much as he did his family. Swimming was mandatory and taught at an early age. He has enhanced his education through the Red Cross and is certified as a lifeguard, lifeguard instructor, aquatic fitness instructor, water safety instructor, and scuba Instructor. He has coached not only his own children, but also several championship level swimmers in the Missouri Valley District.

Skip has coached at various levels with LifeTime Fitness, the Jewish Community Center “Jets,” as well as the KC Parks & Recreation “KC Storm.” 

Dave started his coaching career in 1983 as the assistant head coach for the Renton High School Men’s and Women’s Swim Teams, located in Renton, Washington. After 3 years as assistant coach, in 1986 he replaced the retiring head coach and continued on as head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach until 1996. During the late 80’s through 1996 Dave was also the precompetitive head and assistant age group coach with the Greater Renton Swim Club which later became ORCA Aquatics. Dave currently is a board member of the Olathe Cyclones Summer Swim Club. He has been involved in aquatics in one form or another since 1975.

Dave and his lovely wife Jennifer moved to Shawnee, Kansas from the Seattle area in 1996, they currently reside in Olathe. He has two outstanding sons Jacob and Daniel. Jacob is a former Cool swimmer and Olathe Northwest Swim Team Captain; he currently attends William Jewell College on a Division-II swimming scholarship. Daniel currently is a member of COOL and of the Olathe Northwest High School Swim Team.

Dave currently is a faculty member at Kansas City Kansas Community College.

Ashton has been swimming since the age of 8, first for the Olathe Lightning and then for COOL. She was a varsity swimmer all four years at Olathe South High School, and was also a varsity cross country runner.

She really enjoys working with young swimmers and coaching for COOL!  In addition to her responsibilities for our team, she is a supervisor at Blue Valley Recreation, where she works as a certified lifeguard and swim instructor.

Sydnie is excited to be a part of the coaching staff for COOL. She grew up in the Kansas City area and most of her family is from here in KC. She has been around the sport of swimming since a very young age. Sydnie has enjoyed participating in swimming as well as teaching it. She enjoys not only the competitive side of swimming and meets,but also the fun and life-long qualities of recreational swimming. She also enjoys equipping kids to swim so they are not afraid of the water.  

Sydnie graduated from Olathe South High School where she swam for the Falcons all four years. Curently she is a student at Johnson County Community College where she is pursuing an Associates of Arts degree with an emphasis in paralegal studies. Sydnie also currently works at a law firm as docket support. 

Lauren is a recent KU graduate, earning a Bachelor of Science in Marketing, and a concentration in Business Analytics.

Janis is very excited to be a part of the COOL coaching staff!

She loves swimming and it has been a part of her life as long as she can remember. She started with swim lessons and then swam competitvely in elementary school for her local summer league team. She continued her love for water by becoming a lifeguard, Lifeguard Instructor Trainer, and swim instructor. She took a break from teaching after college, but after a 10 year career in TV News and 3 years as a fashion buyer, she moved to Kansas City and returned to her first love, the water.

Janis became a Water Safety Instructor Trainer and starting coaching her gym's Pre-Compete team and also assisting the head coach in the competitive program. Since then, she has worked as an assistant coach at Blue Valley West and become a certified stroke and turn judge, before joining COOL in 2017. 

She loves working with young swimmers and seeing them learn and grow as they become better swimmers and teammates. She believes she will never stop learning to be a better coach.

Dylan started swimming competively when he was 11. He swam all four years at Olathe East High School, mainly swimming the freestyle events. He was a two time top 8 state finalist in the 100 and 200 freestyle, claiming 2nd place in both his senior year. He currently holds records for the 100 free and the 200 freestyle relay at Olathe East. 

Dylan went on to swim all four years at William Jewell College for their swim team. He made finals every year in their conference meet and competed in the NCAA Division 2 National Championships in 2017 and 2018, assisting his team in making finals in the 800 freestyle relay in 2018. In 2019, he was named an Honorable Mention All-American Swimmer and awarded CSCAA (College Swimming Coach's Association of America) 1st Team Honor. He graduated in May of 2019 with a degree in Business, and an emphasis in Mathematics. 

Dylan fell in love with the sport of swimming, and knew one day he wanted to coach and train kids in something he enjoys. He has coached every summer of his college career with Nottingham by the Green's Gators team, and has taught swim lessons since he was 17. 

Currently he works in the construction industry as an estimator. 

Daniel has been a swimmer since he was 6 swimming for a summer team and continued swimming through high school. He made the varsity team all 4 years of high school, along with breaking a school record and medaling at state his senior year. Swimming has meant a lot to Daniel and it means even more to be able to give back what he has learned to young swimmers so they may find the same joy he found in accomplishing goals through working hard.

Currently, Daniel is studying Architectural Engineering at Kansas State University and coaches for The Mills Farm Mustangs summer swim team, along with being a certified water safety instructor.

Cali’s love for swim started at age 6. Cali swam for the Miami County Vipers from age 6-13. Cali plans to incorporate swim in every level of her life, even if she’s not competing anymore. She also enjoys lifeguarding over her summers as well as teaching kids how to swim safely. Cali is a senior at Blue Valley North High School and plans to go to Wichita State University in the fall to Major in Theatre Management and Minor in Marketing. Cali is very excited to be joining the COOL staff and inspire young swimmers through the sport, just like she was.