Michel P Lewellyn

Head Coach - ASCA 3 Phone 913-530-5271

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Mike most recently served as a Head coach of the Kansas City Blazers Missouri branch, a well recognized team at the local, regional and national swimming level.  Previously, he also was an assistant coach with the Mission Viejo Nadadores, a prominent club in Southern California.  Mike has been part of the fundamental development of a number of age group swimming teams, and is well versed in the challenges in achieving success, both as an individual swimmer and as a team.  He also has had an excellent rapport with the master’s teams that has coached. 

In addition to his Head Coaching expertise, Coach Mike also worked as the USA Swimming Liaison for the Central Zone on a project to research the needs of local teams and connect them with the resources of USA Swimming.   He has been active in the American Coaches Swimming Association and has given numerous clinics and presentations on training, coaching and stroke technique of the age group swimmer.  Mike is well known and respected throughout the national swimming community, and we are thrilled to have him lead our SMRT team.  He is excited to meet the swimmers and families who have are part of the SMRT program, and is ready to help lead our team into the future.

Kristin E Zlogar

Age Group Head Coach

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Kristin grew up in Massachusetts and swam competitively for 17 years, starting with the Amherst Tritons Swim team, and then the Amherst High School Hurricanes where she was captain for one year.  She also swam all 4 years at the University of Rochester where she studied Psychology and Health and Society and was selected to be team captain for 2 years.  After college, Kristin returned to Amherst where she became the head coach for the Tritons for 4 years as well as the Head Coach for the Amherst High School girls swim team for 2 years.  Her other coaching experiences include a season with the Easthampton Barracudas and the Westfield YMCA before moving to South Carolina in 2010. Kristin spent 2 years as the Head Coach for the Summerville YMCA Swim Team before joining the coaching staff for SMRT.  She truly enjoys teaching the fundamentals of competitive swimming to develop young athletes into great swimmers.

Rob Olson

Age Group Coach - Blue

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Rob grew up in the Charleston area and swam with the City of Charleston team.  Rob graduated from East Carolina University with a degree in Health Fitness.  His coaching experience includes 7 years at Parkshore both assisting the head coach and teaching swim lessons; one summer as the Swim American Program Manager at Quail Arbor in Summerville; and head swim coach at Pine Forest Country Club for 3 years.  In addition, Rob has served as a personal trainer in recent years. 

Rob's experience, coupled with his positive attitude and strong knowledge of teaching children to swim, will be invaluable to our team.  Rob is the Gold Group coach.

Norie Hammond

Age Group Coach - Senior Group - ASCA

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Norie Hammond joined SMRT in September 2012 and serves as coach of the Senior Group.  Norie swam competitively for 15 years, training mostly in middle distance freestyle, IM, and backstroke, and currently still holds multiple school records at both the Williams School and New London High School.  Norie swam briefly at Rollins College, where she studied English, before she found a way to continue her love for the sport outside the water.  She worked two years at Trinity Prep Aquatics, in Winter Park, FL, as an Age Group coach before returning home to Connecticut.

Most recently Norie served as Head coach at Nutmeg Aquatics in East Lyme, CT.  During her six years with Nutmeg, Norie coached every level of the team, working primarily with the high school and college swimmers.  She has coached kids to Age Group Championships, Zones, Sectionals, and Senior Nationals.  She also served two years as the Head coach at New London High School and as an assistant coach at East Lyme High School, both on the boy's varsity teams.

Norie brings a deep passion for swimming and lots of energy and joy to SMRT.  She looks forward to helping grow the team and is excited to be a part of South Carolina Swimming.

James Niergarth

Age Group Coach - Gold Group

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Coach Jim joined the SMRT coaching staff in May/June 2010. He has 16 years of competitive swimming experience. He spent 10 of those years swimming for M.E. Lyons YMCA/Anderson Barracudas then switched over to the Cincinnati Marlins. He swam at Saint Xavier High School and Claremont McKenna College. He placed 3rd at conference championships in the 1650 all 4 years during his college career which helped his team to three 2nd place finishes and one 1st place finish his senior year. He is very excited to join the SMRT family and is the Gold Group coach.

Brittany Fieldson

Age Group Coach

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Brittany grew up in Naperville, IL making her way to South Carolina by attending the College of Charleston. She studied elementary education as well as swam all four years of her college career as a sprint freestyler once holding up to seven team records; two individuals and five relays. As a senior, Brittany was also given the honor of team captain. Brittany has been enjoying coaching summer leagues in Naperville and Charleston (JCC) for ten years. Not only does Brittany enjoy coaching, she continues to swim with the SMRT Masters team, and is also a third grade teacher at Harbor View Elementary School. Brittany is excited to work with SMRT swimmers to share her passion for swimming.  Brittany is the Senior Group Coach.

Anna Tommerdahl

Age Group Coach

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 Anna has 7 years of experience teaching people to swim, either as a
summer league coach or teaching private lessons. She grew up swimming
for the North Carolina Aquatic Club in Chapel Hill, NC from the age of
6 to 18. She went on to swim for 4 years at UNC-Wilmington, from where
she graduated with majors in marine biology and math. She is currently
working towards her master's degree in marine biology at the College
of Charleston, swims with the SMRT master's team, and enjoys competing
in open water swims.  Anna works with our Silver Marlins Group.

Lindsey Olson

Age Group Coach - Marlins

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Lindsey grew up swimming in the Charleston area. She has 17 years of competitive swimming experience and ten of those were spent with SMRT. While swimming for SMRT she achieved Junior National, National, and Olympic Trial swimming cuts. She went to the University of South Carolina on a full swimming scholarship and majored in Psychology. She has spent four years coaching and giving lessons in the Columbia area and was head coach of her team the last two years. She is currently working on her Master’s in Sports Psychology.  Lindsey will be the lead Marlins Coach.

Karmen Quakenbush

Age Group Coach

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Coach Karmen recently joined the team in August 2012 shortly after moving to Charleston from Greensboro NC. She has 10 years competitive swimming experience with various summer leagues, Southeast Guilford High School and GCY (Greensboro Community YMCA). Karmen has coached with  teams such as the YMCA Bears, GSA (Greensboro Swimming Association) and Northwest Guilford High School. One of the main motivations for Karmen in her coaching career is seeing a child progress throughout a swim season.  Seeing the excitement on their face at a meet when they make a new top time. Knowing the vital role a coach plays in a child's swimming experience is something to be cherished. A coach should always be aware you're not only impacting their swimming career but making memories as well. Karmen graduated from UNC-Greensboro in May 2011 with a degree in Recreation and Park Management and currently works at Heartland of West Ashley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in addition to working with the Marlins and Blue Marlins Group.