We are here to support your
needs. If you have questions related to workouts, meets,
relays, goal setting, and other swimming related needs, please
contact one of our coaches listed below.
For all administrative
questions, such as registration, billing, etc., please contact Lyne
Martin, our Team Administrator at admin@packswimming.com.
ASCA Certified: Level 4
Senior, Level 5 High School Continuing Education
Coursework: Coaching Foundations School,
Stroke School, Physiology School, Administration School, Leadership
School, Dryland Training, Working Successfully with Swim Parents,
Personal Organization for Swim Coaches, Writing and Magnaing
Workouts, Nutrition for Swimmers, and Age Group Sports
Psychology Publications: My Man Dan, The Impact of
Parent Discussion in front of Children
Coach Mike's governing philosophy - "Success is that emotion you
get to have when you’ve given all that you have. It is
spiritual in nature, defining in character, and most
importantly...it is inspiring for the rest of your
life."
In
2006, Coach Mike became the Head Coach for New Wave
Aquatics. When New Wave Aquatics and Klein Aquatics
merged together in the Spring of 2007, Coach Mike became
Head Coach of our current team, Premier Aquatics (PACK). His
swimmers have enjoyed success at Olympic Trials, the 2009 USA
Deaflympics, US Open, Senior Nationals, Junior Nationals,
Sectionals, and TAGS.
Coach Mike started as a head coach at the age of 18
with The Woodlands Waves. After 4 years and a 500-member swim team
later, he began coaching with USAS swim team, The Woodlands Swim
Team (TWST). As an Age Group coach with TWST for 5 years,
Coach Mike coached many TAGS qualifiers, TAGS champions
and TAGS record holders, as well as Junior National
qualifiers. He then became the Head Coach for Oak Ridge High
School for 5 years, where he was fortunate to coach Junior/Senior
National qualifiers, 4 state champions, 3 All Americans, and 2 All
American relays. During his time with ORHS, he was voted
District and Region Coach of the Year for 2003 and 2004. While
coaching for ORHS, he simultaneously coached the Kleinwood Dolphins
for 3 fun filled years.
Coach Mike has his B.S. in Mathematics with a Minor
in Secondary Education from Sam Houston State University. He
currently lives in Magnolia, and coaches at the Spring
Creek Oaks pool with the National and Pre National
programs.
If you would like to contact Coach Mike please send him an
e-mail by using the above email address or give him a
call at 832-771-SWIM(7946).
Coach Shane McCauley joined our program as Head
Age Group Coach in 2004. His responsibilities include coaching the
Junior Group at the Spring Creek Oaks pool and overseeing the
entire age group program at Premier Aquatics. His swimmers have set
TAGS records, and many have achieved Top 16 times as well as Junior
National, Senior National, and even Olympic Trial
cuts.
Coach Shane was awarded
2008ASCA Age Group Coach of the
Year forGulfSwimming. Click
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Coach Shane grew up in Guam
where he swam as both an age group and high school swimmer. In
1992, he was chosen for the Guam Olympic Swim Team as a
distance swimmer. He attended Morehead State (Division I) in
Kentucky and was chosen Team Captain by his junior
year.
Coach Shane is a Social
Studies teacher at Caney Creek High School. He has over
10 years of USA Swimming coaching experience and is ranked as an
ASCA Level 4 coach. He started his coaching experience with The
Waves, a summer league swim team, in South Montgomery County from
1996 - 2000.
Coach Shane and his wife
Leslie live in the Magnolia area with their child
Meghan.
If you would like to contact
Coach Shane please send him an e-mail using the above email
address or give him a call at 281-924-5815.
Coach Jim
Svododa is from Lubbock, Texas, where he grew up and
attended Lubbock High School and graduated in 1996. He also
attended Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas
(1996-1998), and recently graduated from the University
of Houston, with a Bachelor of Science in
Kinesiology.
Coach Jim has been swimming since he was 11, first for Lubbock
Swim Club, where he was a TAGS Champion and Junior National
Qualifier. He swam for Lubbock High where he was All-State his
junior and senior years. He then swam for Henderson State
University, and was a school and conference record holder (200Fr,
400IM, 1650Fr).
During his career as a coach,
Jim has coached for Deer Park Swim Club (99-02), At DPSC he was an
assistant coach and head coach; Southeast Texas Aqua Racers
(02-04), was the assistant senior coach and helped with junior and
national qualifiers. He was instrumental in the merger of STAR with
Bay Area Aquanauts to form AquaStar (04-05), and then moved to New
Wave Aquatics (05-06). He is currently a lead coach for PACK at the
Klein High School pool. He is also the Head Swim Coach at Chavez
High School in HISD, where he teaches Phyiscal eduaction as
well.
If you would like to contact
Coach Jim, please send him an e-mail using the above email address
or give him a call at 281-788-5615.
Coach Christine
Ayers has been involved with swimming since the age of
4. When she moved to Houston at the age of 6, she joined her
neighborhood summer league team and swam with the same team for 11
years. At age 9, she joined ATEX and also swam for SST until
the age of 14, learning to appreciate the training and competition
involved with swimming. She also swam for Klein High School
for 3 1/2 years.
Coach Christine coached for
the Candlelight Hills summer league team from 2002 - 2005.
She enjoyed working with children of all ages and experiencing
swimming from the coach’s point of view. She also
coached for Aggie Swim Club in College Station, working with the
novice swimmers while getting her Psychology degree at Texas
A&M.
Christine is excited to coach
for PACK again this year. She coaches the silver, bronze, and
copper groups at Klein High School.
If you would like to contact
Coach Christine, please send her an e-mail using the above email
address or 832-248-9950.
My name is Coach Tamra
Parcher, and I am proud to say that this is my second year with
Premier Aquatics. I will be assisting at the Klein High
School Pool for the second time. With PACK, I have coached at Klein
Collins, Klein High, Klein Oak and Spring Creek Forest. The
groups I have assisted with are Copper, Bronze, Silver, Gold,
Advanced, and Juniors.
Before I started coaching
with PACK, I swam for the Londonderry Lightening Bolts summer
leauge team from 2000-2008. I have recived numerous medals,
trophies and awards. The Bob Wiebie Award, Hardest Worker, and Most
Improved are just to name a few.
I graduated from Klein Oak
High School in 2008. I swam as a Panther from 2005-2008. I
participated as Junior Varsity my sophomore year, then moved into
Varsity my Junior and Senior years.
My college is a on going
event. I attended Lone Star College-Montgomery for a full term to
get some of my basic core classes. This summer, I got accepted into
Sam Houston State University, where I will be attending in the
Spring Semester. I’m a Musical Theatre Major with a Minor in
Education.
I am extremely excited to
coach for this season!
""The only way of finding the
limits of the possible, is by going beyond them into the
impossible."-Arthur C. Clarke
If you would like to
contact Coach Tamra, please email using the above email
address.
Continuing Education
Coursework: Coaching Foundation School, Stroke
School, Writing & Managing Workouts, 2 ASCA Legends Clinics and
2 ASCA World Clinics.
Coach Kimberlee Slaughter has been involved with swimming
almost her entire life. In elementary school she began swimming
competitively for an AAU team, the Burford Swim Club, in Arlington,
Texas. At 15 Kimberlee realized she had such a love and passion for
swimming that she began teaching young children to swim. She has
been teaching babies, children, and adults to swim for more than 35
years.
After moving to Spring, over
11 years ago. Coach Kimberlee became involved with 3 of her 4
children in summer league swimming. Very soon she was asked to
assist with the younger age-group swimmers as an assistant coach.
Kimberlee previously coached summer league with the Gleannloch
Farms Gators and the Memorial Northwest Marlins. This will be
Coach Kimberlee’s 4th year with Premier Aquatics and she
looks forward to being able to bring her motivation, enthusiasm,
and passion for swimming to Klein Collins High School where
she will be the pool lead coach and coach of the Gold and
Silver Programs.
When not at the pool,
Kimberlee teaches school at Abercrombie Academy where she is a 4th
grade teacher and, also, the Math teacher for all of the 3rd, 4th,
and 5th grade students.
If you would like to contact
Coach Kimberlee, please send her an e-mail using the above email
address or 713-480-8455.
Coach Spencer
Bartsch was a USA swimmer for over 10 years with PACK. His
experience included swimming four years with the Junior program and
four years as a National swimmer. Spencer spent the majority of his
career swimming under Coach Shane and Coach Mike. Spencer said,
“I am proud to have gone through the PACK program and now am
looking forward to coaching with this great
team”.
Spencer also spent 7 years
swimming summer league. The past 3 years, he was an assistant coach
with the WindRose Stingrays. His private swim lesson students
achieved many personal best times. His love of coaching and seeing
the swimmers excel is evident in how he handles himself on deck.
Spencer will be assisting with the Copper, Bronze, Silver and Gold
groups.
Spencer graduated from home
school high school May 2010. He began attending Lone Star College
as a junior in high school and has completed over a semester. He is
on the President’s List and looks forward to finishing his
associate’s degree with Lone Star then transferring to
University of Houston to finish his degree in Business
Management.
“Success is a journey,
not a destination.”- Bob Beamon
Coach Shawn
Squires has been involved in swimming since a very early
age. He began swimming for the Mariners swim team in the Northwest
Aquatic League at age 4, and would continue to swim for the
Mariners for the next 13 years. The son of a swim coach, he joined
ATEX in 1990 and excelled as a year round Age Group swimmer. A 2000
graduate of Klein High School, Shawn competed for the Bearkats for
four years under Coach Jim Nelson.
Coach Squires comes to PACK
after spending the past two seasons with Sienna Plantation
Aquatics, where he served as the National Development coach and
assisted with the National Team, and helped with numerous TAGS
& Sectionals qualifiers, TAGS Champions, and Junior Nationals
Qualifiers. While with SPA, he also assisted with the Masters
Program, and swimmers of all ages & ability levels. Coach
Squires served as Head Coach of the Sienna Plantation Sharks, a
summer league team of over 350 swimmers in 2009. He began his
coaching career at 15 as a learn-to-swim instructor under Coach
Barbara Harold, and also was a volunteer assistant for HEAT,
assisting with 10 & Unders during the Long Course Season of
1998. Shawn believes in building success in the sport through
promoting core values such as leadership, teamwork, and personal
accountability in his swimmers. He is an advocate of innovative
& extensive dry land training to build strength and endurance
in the pool, and also to prevent injury. Coach Squires looks
forward to bringing his knowledge, enthusiasm, and years of
swimming experience to Klein Forest High School where he will serve
as lead coach and coach the Senior, High School and Advanced
groups.
A resident of the Klein area
for over 25 years, Shawn has worked as a Realtor® with
Prudential Gary Greene on Louetta since 2004. He lives in the area
with his three year old son Connor, and in his spare time he likes
to go surfing, fishing, and loves to cook.
Coach Kayla
Stambaugh was born and raised in
Houston, Texas. She is excited to join PACK. Prior
to becoming one of our newest Age Group Coaches, Kayla was a
former Assistant Coach for the Rolling Fork Gators,
as well as an Age Group Coach for Lone Star Swim
Team.
Coach Kayla began swimming
summer league and was committed to water polo year-round.
During her high school years, she was a varsity member of
both the Swim Team and the Water Polo Team. During her
stint at Jersey Village High School, she represented the
Houston Area as a member to the Water Polo Jr Olympics in 2002 and
2005.
Coach Kayla is currently
enrolled at Lone Star College and is pursuing a double degree
in Education and possilby Sports Medicine. Meanwhile,
she is realizing another one of her dreams--- of being a Coach as a
member of the PACK Coaching Staff.
On most weekends, Coach Kayla
can be found engaged in numerous water and land sports, visiting
friends, or at a swim meet.
If you would like to contact
Coach Kayla, please email her at the above email
address.
Coach Kyle
Subda has been a Varsity Coach for 27 years and a Teacher
for 25 years. Kyle is the Head Coach of the Klein Oak High
School swim team. In 2007, he was voted by his peers as
UIL District 19-5A Girls Coach of the year. He is also a USA
swimming Coach for PACK with the Advanced and Senior groups at
Klein Oak High School. In the summer, Kyle is also the Gleannloch
Gators subdivision Head Coach a team of 300 swimmers from 4 to 18
years of age.
Kyle and his wife Kelly have
5 boys. Travis (20), received a swimming scholarship to
Hiram University in Ohio and is now a Captain of the swim team
and is in his Junior year. Kyle (17) senior, and Dylan (16)
junior and Brian (14) freshman, all attend Klein Collins High
School. Aidan (5), VERY SPOILED!
If you would like to contact
Coach Kyle, please send him an e-mail using the above email
address.
Coach Scott Williamsgrew up inBaton
Rouge,Louisianawhere he graduated
fromBaton
RougeMagnetHigh
Schoolin 1989. He began swimming when he was 6 with the
Bengal Tiger Aquatic Club. He started his coaching career by
doing swim lessons for a local Country Club in 1987. He coached
summer league and with BTAC while attending LSU. He moved
toTexasin 2001 to teach Science at
Wunderlich and coach their swim team. He is
an assistant coach and chemistry teacher at Klein Oak High
presently. He started coaching with Premier
Aquatics in 2009. He is coaching Advanced,
High School and copper groups at Klein Oak High School.
If you would like to contact Coach
Scott, please send him an email using the above email
address.
Lyne has been involved in swimming since
1997, when her daughter, Kathryn started swimming with a NWAL
summer league team, shortly followed by Allison the next year, and
then Matthew in 2003. She served in various board positions
on their summer league team, including Treasurer, Vice-President
and President. In 2001, her children started swimming
year-round with ATEX, until ATEX and HEAT merged to form New Wave
Aquatics in 2003. Lyne served on the 1st board of
the new team, New Wave Aquatics, first as Pool Communication Rep
and then as Treasurer for the next 3 years, until the Spring of
2006. In the fall of 2006, she started working as a
member of the New Wave staff part-time as the Team
Administrator. When New Wave and Klein Aquatics merged in the
spring of 2007, she then became the full-time Team Administrator
for the new team, Premier Aquatics (PACK).
Lyne graduated
from Texas A&M with a BBA in Accounting and became certified as
a CPA shortly after graduating. She worked for the public
accounting firm, Deloitte, Haskins and Sells in auditing for
several years, and then went to work in gas accounting for one of
her oil & gas clients, Tejas Gas, before retiring to be a
full-time Mom after her 1st child was born. She
has served in numerous volunteer and board positions with PTO, High
School Swim Team Booster Club, Girl Scouts, NCL and other community
service
organizations.
Kym has served on the PACK
Board since the Fall of 2008, and his family has been involved with
PACK swimming since 2001. He and his wife have three
children, two of which are age group swimmers with PACK. Kym
enjoys lap swimming and running for exercise, and many other
outdoor activities including camping and motorcycles. He
also serves on the Pool Committee for his subdivision HOA, and
is an active Boy Scout leader in the Spring area. Kym
graduated from McNeese State University with a B.S. degree in
Engineering, and is presently employed in IT with
Hewlett-Packard.
Matt has been involved with
swimming for several years after moving to Houston from
Australia. In 2001 his oldest son, Oliver, began compettive
neighborhood swimming with NWAL, shortly followed by Harry in
2002. In 2005 both Oliver and Harry began year round
USA Swimming for New Wave Aquatics, where they remain to this
day with PACK. Matt now has sevearl years officiating
experience and is currently a Referee with both NWAL and TISCA and
is Nationally Certified as a Starter with Gulf Swimming while at
the same time training as a Referee. Matt is currently in his
second year as President with an NWAL neighborhood swim team and
also is a certified NWAL trainer and Training &
Certification committee member.
Matt currently works for
Baker Hughes as a Senior Director. Matt and his wife Bobbie
have been married 25 years, they ave 3 children: Oliver 14, Harry
12 and Hannah 6.
Ron’s involvement with
swimming began when daughter Audrey (now 16) joined Summer League
swimming in 1999. She began swimming year round in 2000.
Since that time, through 2 mergers he has been with Premier
Aquatics or its predecessors HEAT & New Wave. Ron was
elected to the Board as Treasurer in 2007. He is also a certified
swimming official for USA, TISCA and NWAL. Beyond Premier, Ron is a
CPA. He graduated from Southwest Texas State University in San
Marcos TX in 1985. He works for a Medical Practice Management
company that does not do public accounting. He has worked at MDM
since 1986. His wife Darlene works for Baker Botts LLP, a
worldwide law firm based in Houston, as Human Resources Coordinator. Ron is from a
little West Texas town that you never heard of, Tahoka. Darlene is
originally from New Orleans. Darlene and Ron have been
married since 1992 and Audrey is their only child.
Sandi has been a Premier Aquatics parent since 2005 when her
girls, Amy and Elizabeth, who are both now 12, began year round
swimming after a great experience in summer league. She and her
husband, Doug, have been active volunteers in both NWAL and
PACK. Sandi graduated from the University of Oklahoma
with a degree in petroleum engineering and also has an MBA from
Texas Christian University. She currently works in the
international reserves group atApacheCorporation. Doug, also
a petroleum engineer, works at El Paso as their South Texas
Drilling Manager. Doug and Sandi have been married since 1990
and moved to Houston in 2001. This is Sandi’s first
year on the board as an at large member. She also serves on
the club development committee.
Julie has been involved in competitive swimming as a swimmer,
parent, volunteer, and official at various levels – AAU/USA,
high school, college, Masters, triathlons, and summer league.
She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a
Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She has held many volunteer
Board positions in nursing, community service organizations,
scouts, PTO, and recreational sports. This year is
Julie’s third year on the Premier Aquatics Board. She
and her husband Dee have 2 children on the team – Duggan (18)
and Kaeli (15).
Maryanne has had the pleasure
of being involved with swimming since her daughter, Kate, joined
their neighborhood team in 2004. In 2005, Kate joined Klein
Aquatics and has continued to swim with PACK. Maryanne also
has a son who swam with PACK during the 2008-2009 season.
Maryanne is currently a member of the PACK Apparel Committee where
she has reviewed vendor proposals, facilitated apparel orders and
coordinated the distribution of team shirts. She continues to
serve PACK in this capacity.
Maryanne is a graduate
ofLouisianaStateUniversity. She is a Division
Order Analyst and is currently employed by Devon Energy
Corporation. Maryanne and her husband Tim have two children;
Kate and Sean.
Jeff has been involved as a
parent in organized swimming since 1998. He has assumed many
roles, from president of a neighborhood swim team and president of
the high school swim booster club all the way down to the most
menial activities that help make a swim team successful. But
Jeff’s perspective with PACK is unique as he now plays the
role of a parent whose son has completed the program to the highest
level and has moved on to college swimming. Jeff’s
experiences with young people extend far beyond PACK and include
teaching eighth grade, working with the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts
as well as numerous other activities. Jeff’s
perspective on the board is tempered by a view that swimming is
about kids and helping them grow and that growth extends far beyond
the natatorium.
