Courtesy of ASCA
The American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) and Fitter & Faster Swim Camps are pleased to announce the TOP 5 AGE GROUP COACHES OF THE YEAR for small, medium and large teams.
Congratulations to the following outstanding coaches (in alphabetical order):
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Large Teams (>401 Athletes) |
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Rod Hansen |
Irvine Novaquatics – CA |
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Mike Julian |
NOVA of Virginia Aquatics, Inc – VA |
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Russ Kasl |
SwimMAC Carolina – NC |
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Mike Mahroum |
SwimAtlanta – GA |
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Peter O’Donnell |
Long Island Aquatic Club – MR |
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Medium Teams (200-400 Athletes) |
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John Alaimo |
Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics – MR |
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Tony Carroll |
Club Wolverine – MI |
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Kristen Foley |
Southwest Stars Swim Club – FL |
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Tom Himes |
North Baltimore Aquatic Club – MD |
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Brian Pajer |
Aquazot Swim Club – CA |
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Small Teams (<200 Athletes) |
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Chris Fay |
Northern KY Clippers Swimming – KY |
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Don Heidary |
Orinda Aquatics – PC |
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Jim Skirboll |
Racer X Aquatics – AM |
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Ronson Webster |
Supernova Swim Team – MI |
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Connie Wu |
Stamford Sailfish Aquatic Club – CT |
The national winner of each category of the Fitter & Faster ASCA Age Group Coach of the Year for 2025 will be revealed at an awards ceremony on September 2 at the 2025 ASCA World Clinic at the Peppermill Reno Resort. For more information on the ASCA World Clinic go to www.ascaworldclinic.com. The Top 5 finalists for each division will be introduced and honored at the Awards Ceremony.
The results were compiled using a dataset provided by USA Swimming’s data scientists of swimmers ages 10-14 with qualifying time standards from the 2024 Long Course season and 2024-25 Short Course season. Coaches of record were collected for swimmers who achieved these times to populate the 2025 Top Age Group Coach lists.
Tom Himes coached both my daughters for years at NBAC. He inspired them, demanded excellence, and made it a positive experience for them and many nationally ranked age groupers whom he coached in Baltimore. In my opinion Tom is the best age group coach I’ve ever encountered.
Coach Russ is the BEST!!
No one better than Coach Russ!
-Big Fella