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2008 Coaching Staff
Head Coach:
 Michael Brown
Mike joins the Crozet Gators this year as Head Coach.  From childhood through college, Mike played and participated on a number of sports teams including soccer, football, wrestling and swimming.  In 1992, he began working with kids in summer camps and implementing programs.  He moved on to becoming an aquatics instructor, pool manager, and assistant coach.  In 2004, Mike was instrumental in developing numerous new programs for the YMCA of Roanoke including a swim team.  He served as the Head Coach and Aquatics Director until 2007.  Mike holds a variety of aquatics certificates and has recently completed his level 2 ASCA (American Swim Coaches Association) certification.   He is presently an Assistant Coach with the Charlottesville YMCA (CYAC) team and an American Red Cross Instructor.  When Mike is not busy coaching or teaching, he enjoys reading, researching literary works and traveling.

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 Information regarding the 2007 season. 


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Assistant Coach:
 Teri Stipe

Even though Teri is coaching the Crozet Gators for the first time this year, she brings a great deal of coaching experience with her.  She has been a swimmer with both summer and winter teams since the age of 9 and has been coaching since 1998, starting with the Chancellor Swim Club in Fredricksburg, Virginia. The summer of 2005 she served as head coach for the Fox Point Fintastics Swim Team in Spotsylvania and in 2007 she was head coach of the JSL Elk’s Lodge Swim Team. Teri obtained a Masters in Music at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia and is presently a music teacher at Burnley-Moran Elementary School in Charlottesville. She resides in Crozet with her husband, Dave, who recently started his own recording studio and her beloved mixed daschund, Fenway, (named after their favorite baseball team’s field). Terri’s hobbies are music, music and music.  When she is not teaching music, she is helping her husband with his recording studio, or singing with the Virginia Consort, a local choir in Charlottesville. Her favorite getaway spot is the beach, especially the Outer Banks, where she chose to take her marriage vows in the sand.

Assistant Coach: 
Julian Carta

Julian returns for his second year as a Crozet Gator Coach.  He started swimming at the age of 6 on the Boar’s Head team and continued until his graduation from Western Albemarle High School (WAHS) in 2006. He participated with the Y team in Charlottesville (CYAC) and swam with the WAHS swim team for 4 years. During his senior year, he was captain of the WAHS team and helped lead the men’s team to a district win.Julian also played on the WAHS lacrosse team during his four years at the high school. He is completing his second year at James Madison University and is working toward a degree in International Affairs. He loves to travel, listen to live music and snowboard. 

Assistant Coach: 
Matt Anhold
This is Matt’s first year as a Crozet Gator Coach. Matt and his family have a long history with the Crozet Gators and the Crozet Pool. Matt swam with the team for 13 years, worked as a lifeguard and an assistant manager. His twin sister, Emily, older brother, Ben, and mom, Susan, were equally involved. Ben served as an assistant coach for the team and his mother, Susan, was a long time Crozet Gator mom and active parent committee member.  Matt and his sister graduated from Western Albemarle High School in 2007.  At Western, Matt was a member of the varsity soccer team and varsity swim team all four years. He is completing his first year at James Madison University, and hopes to study geographic science at the School of Integrated Science and Technology at JMU. He is a member of the JMU swim club, loves sports, camping and hanging out with his friends.
 



Assistant Coach: 
Kellianne Mullin

Kellianne is a senior swimmer with the Crozet Gator Swim Team and this will be her first year assisting with the coaching staff.  Kellianne has been swimming since she was 10 years old, first in New Jersey with both the community pool and the YMCA team and later adding the high school team.  In 2006, Kellianne and her family moved to the Crozet area and she joined the Crozet team, the Charlottesville Y (CYAC) team and the Western Albemarle High School Team.  She has been both a National YMCA qualifier and a High School States qualifier in swimming.   Kellianne has not yet made definite college plans but is interested in pursuing a degree in business or pre-med at Randolph Macon College.  Outside of school and swimming, Kellianne loves to hang out with her friends and shop!
Assistant (Volunteer) Coach:
Cherie Witt
 Cherie joins the Crozet Gators for her fifth year as a volunteer coach for the youngest members of our team. Outside coaching the Crozet Gators for the past 5 years, Cherie’s coaching experience lies primarily in cross-country and track at Western Albemarle High School where her team was nationally ranked in 1993 and 1994. Her swimming experience prior to the Crozet Gators consisted of triathlons, life guarding and teaching swimming while in graduate school. Cherie is presently a PE teacher at the Brownsville Elementary School. She is married and has two children, Carly and Averi, who both swim with the Crozet Gators. She loves to exercise, play on the computer and do crafts with her kids. 

Molly Rossberg, CGST and WAHS graduate, and Alex Rayle, CGST and SMAC swimmer will be volunteering their time daily in helping Cherie coach the 6 and under swimmers.


 

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