Our coaches are the heart of our swim team!
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Amy Webb, Head Coach, 15-18 age group coach
Amy swam in the BVSSL for 11 years with Mesa Swim Team. She
competed for Niwot High School. Her BVSSL summer coaching experience includes the Flyers Swim Team and Mesa Swim Team. Currently, Amy is an assistant coach for Fairview High School Girls Swimming & Diving Team and the Fairview High School Boys Swimming & Diving Team. She also competes on the national
level for Boulder Aquatic Masters. She continues to teach swimming lessons to all
ages.
Amy is married to Andrew and has 4 cats (and thinks it takes 5 to actually be called a crazy cat lady): Fly, M, Bernie and Fluff. For fun, Amy rides English Dressage on a 24 year old Morgan named Stormy.
Amy's favorite races to swim are the 50 and 100 free, 100 and 200 breast and her favorite races to watch are the butterfly races.
amy@webbwork.com
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Laurie Johnson, Assistant Coach, 15-18 age group
Laurie has been swimming competitively since she was seven. Unfortunately, her parents did not know about Mesa or BVSSL, so she was on CARA (City of Boulder) until she joined a year-round team at age 12. She swam for Fairview and was team captain senior year (like some of our own Mesa swimmers) and then swam at Cornell College, a Division III school in Mount Vernon, IA, where she was also team captain. Laurie's best event was 200 butterfly, setting school records in that event and a few others.
Laurie began coaching as an assistant for Boulder Burst, when the City of Boulder started a team that was a part of BVSSL. She became the head coach after one year and stayed with the team for 10 years before moving to Kentucky. The team is now combined with another to make the Barracudas. In Kentucky, Laurie coached club for Wildcat Aquatics for a few seasons, but then decided it was time to come back home and start a family.
She and her husband, Rob, moved back in May, 2001, and Laurie started coaching that summer with Mesa. About 10 days after finals in 2002, Laurie had her son, Avery. She stayed with Mesa through the summer of 2005, but then did not return after the birth of her second child, Lainey.
Laurie took a second summer off in 2007, to be a part of opening a new hospital as a part of her job as Registration Manager at Platte Valley Medical Center. Her love of swimming and Mesa brought her back to Mesa in 2008. Laurie loves being a part of the Mesa program. To maintain balance in her family and work life, she is only able to able to coach part time. She will be dedicated to the 15-18 age group and will try to connect with as many others as she can.
lauriesj14@yahoo.com
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Matt Ward, Assistant Coach, 13-14 age group is another BVSSL alum (go Mesa!) who loves the sport and loves coaching! He started teaching lessons at the age of 15 and has coached for BVSSL teams, masters programs at the University of Colorado, BAM and RallySport as well as individual coaching for triathletes. Matt’s favorite events are the 200 fly and the 200 and 400 IM. During his BVSSL days, his events were the 50 free and 100 breast. After a few years off he is getting back in the water this year, so when you see him, make sure he’s getting his workouts in! Look out kids, there may be a fast coaches relay this year!
matthew4ward@gmail.com
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Matt
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Tessie Myers, Assistant Coach, 11-12 age group
Tessie grew up in Boulder and started swimming when she was seven with the Boulder Poseidon's. She continued to swim with North Jeffco, RACE and all four years at Monarch High School. Tessie graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Biology and a minor in Human Physiology. She has been teaching lessons on and off for the past ten years with Rally Sport Health Club for Swim America, the YMCA and Boulder Swimming Academy. She moved to sunny San Diego where she coached La Costa Canyon High School swim team, Kearny Mesa Swim Club and at the Naval Hospital. Tessie also worked for Scripps Healthcare in an orthopedic office. In the past year she moved back to Colorado and is currently applying to graduate school and working for a local C.P.A office. Tessie is excited to start coaching again and looks forward to meeting all the swimmers.
tessiemyers@gmail.com
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Tessie
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| Kristi Crawford, Assistant Coach, 9-10 age group
Kristi has been swimming since she was nine years old, competing every summer on her neighborhood team until she was 18. She was also on the varsity team all 4 years at Grandview High School and is now headed into her junior year at CU, where she swims on the club team. Kristi's favorite events are any distance of backstroke and IM. She has been teaching swim lessons for years and is looking forward to coaching competitive swimming.
Kristine.Crawford@Colorado.EDU |
Kristi
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Lauren Fowler, Assistant Coach, 8 under age group
Lauren started her swimming career when she was five and has grown up
around the water! She started swimming year round when she was nine for
Colorado Springs Swim Team and swam all the way through high school. She
had the opportunity to train most of her high school career at the Olympic
Training Center and was able to travel with the team across the country for
meets! She has coached all age groups and levels ranging from summer league
very beginners to year round state qualifiers. She currently swims for CU and
her favorite events are 100/200 backstroke and the 200IM. Lauren is excited to
join the MESA staff and is looking forward to a great summer!
lauren.fowler@colorado.edu |
Lauren
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Spencer Kotnik, Assistant Coach, 8 & under age group
Spencer is coming back to MESA after spending last summer working in Washington DC. He has been swimming his whole life and is looking forward to getting back into coaching.
Spencer grew up in Colorado, and swam for Cherry Creek High School where he earned All-American honors.
He is a senior at the University of Colorado and is looking forward to finishing up his degree this summer, and having a blast coaching all the MESA swimmers!
Spencer.Kontnik@Colorado.EDU |
Spencer
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