Schroeder YMCA Swimming Team

Coaches

The Schroeder YMCA Swim Team has an experienced and caring coaching staff which is led by coaching partners David Anderson and Matt Miller. Multiple part-time coaches lend their expertise daily to each athlete and together with Miller and Anderson, they make up one of the most stable and motivating coaching staffs in the Midwest.

Co-Head Coach - David Anderson: David, 44, is in his 23rd year of coaching and 13th at the Schroeder YMCA. Since 1985, Anderson has coached 12 Olympic Trials Qualifiers, and 2 Olympic Trials finalists, 16 Big Ten and Big Eight Conference Champions, 4 US Open Champions, 18 USA National Finalists, 6 athletes to 32 NCAA All American Certificates, 2 USA Junior National Team members, a USA National Team Member, and 2 Junior National Champions to five Junior National records. He has been a member of the USA National Team coaching staff, was named YMCA Coach of the Year in 1996 and again in 2007, and led the Schroeder YMCA to YMCA National Team Championships in 1997 and 1999.; Anderson began coaching high school and club in his home state of Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia area. In 1987, Dave took a graduate assistant position with the University of Nebraska men's team and in 1989 he was named Men's Assistant Swimming Coach at the University of Minnesota. The Gophers finished in the top 10 at the NCAA championships four times and he earned a Masters in Education.; Dave coaches the athletes in Groups 4 – 6, high school and college age. A graduate of Hartwick College (NY), Dave enjoys a variety of athletic endeavors including cycling, running, swimming and ski marathons. Anderson is married to Laura Petrie-Anderson. They have a daughter, Grace, and the family lives in Shorewood, Wisconsin.

Co-HeadCoach - Matt Miller: Matt is in his 8^th year of coaching with the Schroeder YMCA and 11^th year of coaching swimming. Miller came to Milwaukee in 1997 to teach eighth grade science and coach high school swimming. Matt coached part-time at the YMCA until 1999 when he left teaching to work full-time at Schroeder. In the last five years, Miller has guided Schroeder’s age group program into the area’s best and most recently led the 12&U athletes to the 2005 Wisconsin Long Course State title.
: Since 1997, Miller has worked with athletes who have set a number of state records, countless team records, and 3 national age group records as well as having kids listed in the National Top 16 regularly. He has also coached an adaptive athlete to multiple American records and to a top 20 world ranking.

Miller graduated from Kenyon College where he was an NCAA All American 18 times, won 13 National titles, set 5 National Records, was a part of 4 National Championship Teams, and was a Senior National qualifier.

Miller is married to Amy Miller. They have two sons (Owen and Sam) and live in Colgate, WI..

Assistant Coach - Marsha Hilliard: Hilliard has been coaching at the Schroeder YMCA since 1995. Marsha coaches Group 1 with a compassionate and firm style. She has strong ties with the YMCA’s Swim Team as she grew up on the team and she was a team record holder in the sprint free and breast stroke events. In 1988, Hilliard won the 50 free at the USA-West Junior National Championships and was a USA National Qualifier. Hilliard is still competing regularly and both her children are excellent age group swimmers.

Assistant Coach - Tom (Grampa Thunder) Michelson: Tom coaches Group 2 and has been involved with masters swimming for the last 20 years and had swum at the state high school level as a athlete. Michelson was on a Wisconsin State High School Championship relay - a few seasons ago.
: He has been keenly interested in the continuous development of new techniques in all four strokes and has also been a competitor in local and national championship meets for two decades with the Schroeder YMCA Masters Team.

Tom states, "I want to use what I have learned to help young swimmers achieve the full extent of their capabilities. I am a strong believer in making good efforts fun. My long term hopes are for the Schroeder YMCA Swim Team to send an ever increasing number of swimmers to the Olympic Trials."

Volunteer Coach - Don Jackson: Don is a volunteer coach for Group 1 and a Board Member at the Schroeder YMCA. He and his wife Jessie, have had three boys go through the YMCA’s swim team. His oldest is still a multiple team record holder and was a YMCA National Champion. Don is retired from the Milwaukee Fire Department where during his career he rose from the rank of Fireman to second in command, as Assistant Chief. When Don isn’t enjoying a round off golf, riding his Harley or swimming with the Masters team, he does an outstanding job with Schroeder’s youngest swimmers teaching fundamentals, values and fun.

Assistant Coach - Lindsey King

Lindsey joined the Schroeder staff in 2003 and graduated from Marquette University Law School in May of 2005. She is currently working with a small general practice firm downtown doing general litigation. She is from Madison where she swam for the MAC team and then for the University of Wisconsin. Lindsey is an avid endurance multi-sport enthusiast. She works with both Group 3 and the senior teams.

Assistant Coach - Kyle Bedalov

Kyle has been coaching Senior and National team athletes at the Schroeder YMCA since 1996 and is entering his 15th season as the Divine Savior Holy Angels High School swimming coach. His high school teams are consistently among the top 10 at the WIAA Division I meet. Kyle brings years of experience and exceptional organizational skills to both DSHA and the Schroeder YMCA.

Assistant Coach - Bill Hoppe

Bill has had three boys on the Schroeder YMCA Swim Team since 1994 and has been coaching at the YMCA since 2001. He has coached age group swimming in Nevada before moving to Wisconsin and with another area team in the '90's before joning the YMCA's coaching staff. Bill is an excellent stroke technician and works primarily with Schroeder's future stars - Group 1.

Assistant Coach - Tracy Kellner

Tracy has been coaching all levels at the Schroeder YMCA since 1997. Tracy currently coaches Group 1 and is an expert with meet management. She was an outstanding sprinter and an NCAA All American for the University of Iowa where she graduated with a 4.0 in Mechanical Engineering. She is the mother of two future sprint stars Doug and Julius and is married to Schroeder YMCA Team record holder and NCAA All American sprinter Todd Kellner.

Assistant Coach - Jason McEvilly

Jason a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee with a degree in architecture and heads up the Pirahnas - the City of Milwaukee's Recreation Department Swim Team. Jason has been instrumental in raising Milwaukee's swimming to new levels and he subs occasionally with all groups.

Assistant Coach - Dana Handel

Dana has been with the Schroeder YMCA Staff since the winter of 2004 and she is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in Electrical Engineering and Kinesiology. Dana was a standout with the Oshkosh YMCA and in college at UW-M. Dana continues to train and compete and she coaches masters, senior and age group swimmers.

Assistant Coach - Tom Sullivan

Tom (Sully) has been coaching at the Schroeder YMCA since the spring of 2003. Tom swam for Marquette High a few years ago and helps with Group 3. His compassionate disposition adds much to the mix.

Assistant Coach - Adam Mania

Please help me welcome Adam Mania to our staff, both as a swimmer and a coach. He will be starting this fall working 4-5 days per week and will also be swimming with us. As an athlete, he is extremely accomplished and through his clinics and numerous private lessons it is clear that he will also be a great coach. In 2004, Adam represented Poland in the Athens Olympics.

Adam recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin majoring in Political Science. He is truly an accomplished, highly skilled, all round athlete who can dominate many events. Below are some of his top performances in short course yards:

100 breast 54.51
200 back 1:42.75
100 free 44.39
200 breast 1:58.91
200 free 1:36.78
100 fly 49.83
100 back 46.86
200 im 1:45.74

Please take a moment to introduce yourself when you see Adam around on the pool deck. We are looking forward to a great winter season.

Assistant Coach - Ben Bartell

Coach Ben graduated from Cedarburg High School in Cedarburg, Wisconsin in 1998. Ben started his competitive swimming career at the age of 16 with his high school team.

In the fall of 1998 Ben attended college at the University of Minnesota where he swam backstroke and IM for the Gophers. In 2001-2002, Ben helped the team to win Big Ten titles and achieve a top ten finish at the NCAA Championships. A 4 time All-American, Ben also received many other individual honors from the Gophers. Ben was an Olympic Trial qualifier in 2004 in the 100 back and represented the Schroeder YMCA.

During the summer of 2002, Ben served as an assistant coach at the Schroeder YMCA, helping on deck with all groups. After leaving Schroeder, Ben was a fifth year assistant coach at the University of Minnesota. Coach Ben had the opportunity to work with the highest level athletes while on deck with Head Coach Dennis Dale.

Ben then moved on to coach with the Edina Swim Club from May of 2003 to August of 2007 and coached numerous state champions, state record holders, team record holders, top 16 swimmers, zone qualifiers and a zone champion. He also established a program to ensure the continued stroke development of the younger swimmers on the club.

Assistant Coach - Jenny Jahner

Jenny spends her time coaching for group 1. She is from Appleton, Wisconsin, a graduate from Appleton east in 2004. She grew up swimming for the Fox Cities YMCA swim team, and spent one year swimming for U.W. Milwaukee, where she is currently a senior. She plans to graduate with a major in Advertising, and Art History.