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I work with performance‑driven swim programs – college teams, clubs, and national federations – to build skills that actually show up on race day.

 

My specialty is simple: 

 

• Clarify what skills matter most for speed in your environment 

• Decide how to teach them in the water you actually have 

• Map when to emphasize them across groups and seasons

 

So your staff isn’t guessing, your athletes aren’t overwhelmed, and your best swimmers get better because of the system, not in spite of it.

 

Coaching At The Sharp End

 

Before focusing on consulting and coach education, I spent over 15 years coaching on deck at high‑performance programs:

 

• University of Virginia – Assistant Coach (2017–2023)
  Part of a staff that produced NCAA champions, NCAA and American record holders, and Olympic medalists.

• Northwestern University – Associate Head Coach (2012–2017)

• Part of a staff that produced a World champion and Olympian

• Bucknell University – Assistant Coach (2009–2012)

• University of Maryland – Assistant Coach (2007–2009)

 

That time on deck shaped how I work now: every idea has to survive contact with real workouts, real constraints, and real athletes on a demanding schedule.

 

Today, I partner with multiple national federations and elite programs as a coach educator and technical consultant.

 

Trusted For Ideas That Scale

 

Beyond the pool deck, my work is used in coach education and technical development at the highest levels of the sport:

 

• World Aquatics – I’ve created skill development frameworks used in their swimming coach education courses.

• Routledge – Author of A Constraints‑Led Approach to Swim Coaching, a practical guide to designing practices that helps swimmers learn skills through performance.

• United States Masters Swimming – Creator of flagship technique guides for their swimming community

 

These roles all point in the same direction: taking complex skill and learning theory and turning it into tools performance‑minded coaches can deploy on Monday morning.

 

Known For Systems, Not Drills

 

A lot of skill work in swimming lives in two unhelpful extremes:

 

• Endless drills that never touch performance, or

• Vague principles with no path to implementation

 

My work sits in the middle where serious programs live:

 

• Constraints‑led, performance‑oriented: Practices are built so the skills athletes need in races are the skills they’re forced to use in training.

• Frameworks, not fads: I build clear progressions so head coaches can look at a season and say, “This is how our 13–14 group will arrive at world‑class turns by 18–19.”

• Ideas coaches can actually use: Everything is designed to respect your challenges: pool time, staff bandwidth, athlete load, and competition schedule.

 

I’m not here to take credit for your results. My job is to give you ideas and structures that make it dramatically easier for your coaching to produce consistent, world‑class performances.

 

How Top Programs Typically Work With Me

 

For a head coach or technical director, the most common engagements look like:

 

1. High‑performance problem‑solving

 

You bring a specific performance or technical problem (“this athlete/group can’t convert skills under pressure”), and we work together to design practice solutions that fit your constraints.

 

2. Coach education for federations and major programs
 

Building and delivering practical skill development curriculum for your national or regional coaches so everyone speaks the same language about skills and performance.

 

3. Club‑wide skill development systems
 

Designing the step‑by‑step skill and training progression across groups so athletes consistently arrive in your top squad with the tools they need to swim fast.

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If You Want To Explore Working Together

 

If you’re leading a program and want to:

 

• Make skill work reliably impact performance, and 

• Build a system your whole staff can execute

 

…send me a short note about your team, your context, and what you’re trying to solve. 

 

I’ll respond with whether and how I can help, and what an appropriate engagement could look like.