Coaches and Directors
Coaches and Directors
Coaching Staff
Coach Guy Gniotczynski,
CSCS, SSDC, is ASCA Level 5 certified. He started his
coaching career in 1999 at the West Suburban YMCA, where he
served as an assistant until 2005. Guy took over as the head
coach and produced the team's first YMCA National Qualifier in
2006. While serving as the head coach of the West Suburban
YMCA, he also served simultaneously as the head coach of the Thomas
Moore/St. Francis girls' high school team and an assistant at the
Schroeder YMCA.
In 2008 he took a position
as a graduate assistant at Carthage College in Wisconsin.
While at Carthage, the men's team won two back-to-back conference
titles, the women placed in the top ten teams in the country and
had their first NCAA D III national champion in school
history.
In 2010 he moved to Salem,
Oregon as an assistant coach for the Willamette University Bearcats
and the Bearcat Swim Club (now Midvalley Aquatics).
While at Willamette, he served as the primary recruiter; he doubled
the size of the men's team in just one season and assisted them in
moving up three spots in the conference standings. He also
increased the size of the women's team by 50%. At Bearcat,
Guy served as the senior prep squad's lead coach, coaching the
club's top 11-14-year-old swimmers to prepare them for senior-level
swimming. Coach Guy earned an ASCA level 3 age group
certification at Bearcat Swim Club for the national rank of one of
his 12-year-old male
swimmers.
After two years in Salem,
Guy moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, to take on the head coach
position of the Rapid City Racers. While there, Guy over
doubled the individual qualifiers at the Central Zone sectional
meet, regularly placed multiple swimmers on the Zone team, coached
a world champion triathlete, and produced the team's first NCSA
Junior national qualifiers in over five years. Guy was also
selected to serve as the senior vice chair on the South Dakota LCS
board and served as an all-star coach for two years. Guy
Spent one year in DeKalb, IL, with the Kishwaukee Family YMCA,
where he grew the national team from 8 to 13 and produced 9 YMCA
All-Americans.
Guy swam at Carroll
College (now Carroll University) in Wisconsin, earning a bachelor's
degree in biology with a minor in biochemistry. He completed
his master's degree at Carthage College in education with a focus
on guidance and counseling.
Certifications
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American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA)
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ASCA Level 5 Swim Coach
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ASCA Level 3 Disability Swim Coach
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ASCA Level 2 Open Water Swim Coach
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Certified Stroke Technician
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National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)
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NASM- Certified Personal Trainer (CPT)
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NASM-Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES)
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NASM-Fitness Nutrition Specialist (FNS)
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NASM-Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES)
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National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
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Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
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Ritter Sports Performance
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Surge Strength Dryland Certified (SSDC)
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Nutrition
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Renaissance Periodization certified nutrition coach Level 1
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Precision Nutrition Level 1
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Other
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Road Race Club of America Level 1 (RRCA)
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Functional Movement Screen Level 1 (FMS Level 1)
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Functional Movement Screen Level 2 (FMS Level 2)
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Fundamental Capacity Screen (FCS)
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Ally began
competitive swimming at the age of 6 and continued through
college. She swam for Blue Devil Swim Club and Warren Township High
School in Gurnee, Illinois. She then went on to swim Division 1 for
two years at Western Illinois University.
Ally has been the head
coach of Pewaukee High School's girls swim team for five years. She
is also a French teacher at PHS and has a Master's degree in
Education. She is also a sprints and hurdles coach for the middle
school track team.
In her free time, Ally
trains and competes in Olympic Weightlifting. She is a USAW
certified Sports Performance Coach, and with this training, she
successfully implemented a weight-training program for the PHS
girls swim team. She highly enjoys helping the Gold group with
their strength training.
Ally specializes in
backstroke and sprint freestyle, but she is enthusiastic about
working with all types of swimmers through the
YMCA.
Coach Martha has been with
the Piranhas swim team since 2017. She is from Wisconsin and
swam during high school and college. She started coaching her
former high school girl’s swim team during college and has
coached ever since. While attending UW Madison for her
graduate degree in Population Health Sciences – Epidemiology
she coached both Oregon Community Swim Club and Stoughton
boy’s high school. During her three seasons with
Stoughton the team went from barely having enough kids to compete
to making it to state for the first time in ~20 years and breaking
multiple school records. After graduating she moved to
Watertown with her husband and started coaching the Piranha’s
after she started back swimming herself. You may catch her in
the pool from time to time testing out drills or training for her
own meets.
She loves the pool and the
sport. Her philosophy is to create a fun and safe environment
for kids to learn valuable skills they will need later in life and
in the process make them better swimmers too.
Nicole swam been competitively swimming
for seven years. Nicole swam all four years of high school for
Waukesha North Kettle Moraine swim team. There she was captain for
her senior year and helped rebuild the JV swim team. Nicole
continued to swim three years Collegially for Carroll University.
There she was nominated as freshman of the year in a female sport,
awarded most improved by the team for her freshman and senior year,
and first round academics all-district senior year. Nicole swam
sprint and mid-distance. Primary strokes include fly, freestyle,
and IM. Nicole graduated from Carroll University with a Bachelor of
Science in Psychology in 2023. Currently continuing her education
at Laboure College of health care in EEG studies. She enjoys
working with the younger levels and encourages all at
practice.
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