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Coaches (2006-2007)

 

To contact one of the coaches via email, click on the email link.  Please refer Senior and Age Group questions to Coach Mike.

 

 

Mike Benedick

Head Coach

 

Mike is the Head Coach and returns for his ninth year with CATY.  He has coached CATY swimmers achieving YMCA Top 16 honors, YMCA Nationals finalists, USA Swimming Sectionals competitors, AAAA and Top 16 qualifiers, US Open qualifiers, and NCAA Division I scholarship recipients. An alumnus of CATY Swimming, Mike's strengths include stroke mechanics, dryland and strength training, and motivation. Mike is the Head Swim Coach for the Five Oaks Barracudas, assistant dive coach at RDC in Catonsville, and has also coached diving on the high school level.

 

American Swimming Coaches' Association, Level II Certified;

Head Coach, 9th Year

 

 

Joe Miller

Assistant Coach

 

Joe  returns for his fifth  year with the CATY swimming program as an Assistant Coach.  Joe is a CATY alumnus and also serves as the Head Swim Coach of the Rollingwood Seals.

 

American Swimming Coaches' Association, Level I Certified;

Assistant Coach, 5th Year;

B.A. Johns Hopkins University

 

Jennifer Corb

Assistant Coach

 

Jenn returns to CATY for her 2nd year as an Assistant Coach.  Jenn has coached YMCA swimmers achieving YMCA Top 16 honors, YMCA National All-Americans (Long Course), as well as YMCA National qualifiers (Short Course and Long Course) and US Open qualifiers.  Jenn swam at Johns Hopkins University.  Her strengths include distance training and administrative support to the Head Coaches.

 

American Swimming Coaches' Association, Level I Certified;

Assistant Coach, 2nd Year;

B.A. Johns Hopkins University

 

Ryan Jackson

Assistant Coach

 

Ryan has been teaching swim lessons at Western Family YMCA for two years and has been a Camp Counselor here for one year.  He has been involved in competitive swimming since the age of 4.  In grade school and high school Ryan swam at local USAS clubs, where he also helped to coach the younger swimmers on the teams.  He is currently a student at Baltimore County Community College/Catonsville.

 

Assistant Coach, 1st Year

 

 

Don Schaub

Volunteer Coach

 

Don returns for his thirty-first year with CATY as Volunteer Coach, with a main concentration in the Developmental Group.  He is the Master of stroke technique with all groups. 

 

Volunteer Coach, 31st Year    

 

Peter Sonntag

Aquatic Director

 

 

Dr. Larry Plotkin

Strength Training and Nutrition Consultant

 

CATY is pleased to have Larry returning to the coaching staff this year as the team's Strength Training and Nutrition Consultant.

 

5th Year, Volunteer Consultant C.S.C.S., National College of Chiropractic

 

 

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