Tim Bauer, Chrissy Gentry, Alexis Keto, & Terry Stoddard Voted to Coaches’ Advisory Committee

Tim Bauer, Chrissy Gentry, Alexis Keto, and Terry Stoddard have been elected to the USA Swimming Coaches’ Advisory Committee, the place they are going to serve three 12 months phrases. They have been chosen from amongst 26 candidates, with all USA Swimming member coaches receiving a vote.

Bauer and Stoddard have been elected to return to the fold after being included within the Committee’s inaugural class in 2022.

Bauer, who was the Committee Chair for the final time period, is the pinnacle coach of Tennessee Aquatics in Knoxville. He started teaching a summer time league group in 1980 and membership swimming in 1987, giving him over 40 years of expertise.

Bauer has an extended resume that has taken him throughout the nation in California and Texas, the place he labored at The Woodlands Swim Staff and Katy Aquatics – two mega-programs.

Stoddard has been the pinnacle coach at Pasadena Metropolis Faculty in California for 25 years, the place he additionally coaches the ladies’s water polo group. Previous to that he was the pinnacle coach at Rose Bowl Aquatics from 1992-1997 and an assistant coach for the U.S. group on the Pan American Video games in 1991, and a highschool coach in California for nearly a decade, together with teaching the Capistrano ladies’ group to 5 runner-up finishes on the CIF state championship meet and a nationwide prep college document within the 200 yard medley relay.

They are going to be joined by a pair of ladies within the new class. Chrissy Gentry is the pinnacle age group coach on the Lakeside Aquatic Membership in Texas, the place she has labored for nearly 10 years. She was named a Prime 10 Age Group Coach of the Yr in 2023 by ASCA and Fitter & Quicker. A 12 months earlier, she was within the Prime 50.

Alexis Keto is the affiliate head coach on the Bolles Faculty in Florida, one in every of that state’s high packages. Previous to that, she spent 5 years because the CEO of New Trier Aquatics in suburban Chicago. She additionally hung out as a head membership coach in Colorado, YMCA web site coach in North Carolina, and assistant coach at NC State and Northwestern.

Adrian Damasco and Mary Liston are the outgoing members of the Committee. Liston didn’t run for re-election.

With two ladies and two males voted in, the coaches’ portion of the committee now contains six males and 6 ladies in 12 seats.

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