ASSISTANT COACHES

 

 

  Brenden Cook  - [email protected]

Coach Brenden started swimming on Splash when he was 7 years old. This is his 12th year on the team and 5th year as a coach. Brenden just finished his first year at Colorado School of Mines. His major is mechanical engineering . Brenden likes freestyle and he espefically likes 200 Free. In his free time, he enjoys running and listening to music. One fun fact about Brenden is that he is color blind.

 

  Soham Sarkar

 

Isabella Wall - [email protected]  

This is Coach Isabella's 14th year on the team and 5th year as a coach - s he started swimming on Splash when she was 5 years old.  Freestyle is her favorite stroke. Isabella is going into her 3rd year as a Psychology major at UCI. In her free time, she enjoys shopping, Pilates and going to the beach. She also likes to snowboard in the winter.

 

 Maryn Boomsma

Coach Maryn started swimming on Splash when she was 5 years old. This is her 13th year on the team and 4th season coaching. 100 breaststroke is her favorite swim event. Maryn graduated from Irvine High this year and she will be a freshman at Auburn University in the fall, studying Elementary Education. In her free time, she enjoys going to the beach, getting coffee and spending time with her friends and family. She also likes to run and she has actually ran TWO half marathons!!!

 

Andrew (AJ) Pier

Coach AJ started swimming with Splash when he was 11 years old - this is his 7th year on the team and 3rd year of coaching. His favorite stroke is backstroke. AJ graduated from Crean Lutheran High School this year and he will be a freshman at University of San Diego in the fall to pursue a major in Business Administration and a minor in Entrepreneurship. In his free time, he enjoys working on cars and making clothes and shoes. Many of you probably don't know this but Coach AJ has done 4 years of American Sign Language!

 

  Justin Miller

Coach Justin joined Splash when he was 5 years old. This summer is his 3rd year as a coach and it will be 13th year as part of the team. 13th year on the team and 3rd year as a coach. He graduated from Irvine High School this year and he will be attendig USC next year as a Biochemistry major. Butterfly is his favorite stroke. Aside from swimming, Justin also likes to run, enjoys gaming and binging on his shows. Justin has a standing ISL Freestyle Relay record set in 2014 when he was 6 years old. That record has yet to be broken!

 

  Maia MacVicar

Coach Maia started swimming on Splash when she was 5 years old. She has spent 13 summers on the team and this is her 3rd year of coaching. Maia graduated from Irvine High this year where she was part of the water polo and swim teams. She will be at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the fall and majoring in Business Administration. Freestyle is her favorite stroke. When not in the water, Maia enjoys going to the beach and hanging out with friends. Fun fact: Maia lost her first tooth at one of the College Park swim meets when she was 6 years old! 

 

Sophia Wall

Coach Sophia is in her 3rd year of coaching. She has been with the team for 13 years - she joined the team when she was 5 years old. Freestyle is her favorite stroke. Sophia graduated from Irvine High this year and she will be a freshman in college studying business in the fall. Aside from swimming, she likes going to the beach, shopping, hanging out with friends, listening to music and watching movies. She also loves to travel!

 

 Leilani Nguyen

  Cadence Yip

Coach Cadence started swimming on the team when she was 5 years old. This is her 7th year on the team and 3rd year as a coach. Cadence will be a senior at Irvine High School in the fall. If she were to choose one stroke, she would choose to swim breaststroke! Cadence loves listening to music and playing different musical instruments. She also loves to hang out with friends and family. For those of you who like turtles, ask to meet her two pet turtles that love to eat and sunbathe!

 

 

VOLUNTEER COACHES

 

 Dylan Mac

 Madi Lam

This is Coach Madi's 1st year as a coach, but 6th year on the team. Just like many of our coaches, she started swimming on the team when she was 5 years old and her favorite stroke is the 50 Free. Madi will be a senior at Santa Margarita high school in the fall. In her free time, she enjoys biking and playing basketball and flag football. For those who likes dogs, Madi has a doberman named Roxy.

  Ben Nguyen

Coach Ben started swimming on the team when he was 8 years old and he has been on the team for 9 years. This is his 3rd year as a coach. In the fall, Ben will be a senior at Irvine High in the fall. He plays football at Irvine high and he tore his ACL during football season in his freshman year. Ouch! Thankfully, he has recovered so now he can swim breaststroke again, his favorite stroke.*

 Isabella Jew

 

  Taylor Thongintra

Coach Taylor started swimming with Splash when he was 6 years old, making this his 11th year on the team. He will be going into his junior year at Santa Margarita Catholic High School in the fall. Swimming takes up most of Taylor's time - he swims 6 days a week all year long - so even though this is his 2nd year as a coach, make sure to listen to all his tips to become a faster swimmer. If he could choose one event to swim, it would be 200 breast - this is his best event. Because of all the time he spends swimming, Taylor claims that he does not have time to do anything else, although he still managed to get his blackbelt in taekwondo!!!*

 

 

 Ella Jarzyna

Coach Ella has been a part of the Splash since she was 5 years old. She loves swimming and swims for Irvine High School where she also plays water polo. Her favorite events are anything butterfly or IM! When she’s not swimming she loves to spend time with friends, listen to music, and go to the beach.

 

   Katherine Huang

Coach Katherine was on the team when she was in 2nd grade, and she is back on the team this season. This is her first year of coaching. She will be a sophomore at Irvine High schol. Her favorite stroke is breaststroke. In her free time, she enjoys running and spending time with her friends. 

 

  Lucas Tang

This is Coach Lucas' first year on Splash, but his 9th summer in ISL and his 2nd year as a coach. Among all the swim strokes, he likes doing the longer distance freestyle events and IM. Lucas will be a junior at Portola High School in the fall. In his free time, he likes to sleep, hang out with friends, play music and mess around with electronics. He also loves to play pickleball with his friends and family!

 

 Serena Ye

Coach Serena started swimming when she was 7 years old - she has been on the team for 8 years and this is her 1st season s a coach. Her favorite stroke are 200 back and 200 IM. Serena will be a sophomoe at Santa Margarita High School in the fall. When she is not in the pool, she enjoys spending time wih her family, her friends and her dog.

 

Logan Nguyen

Evan Mac

 

 

 

 

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