Coaches and Board of Directors

Chris Wolford

Marlins Head Coach/CEO, ASCA 5

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Chris Wolford comes to the Marlins from Toledo, Ohio.  In Toledo, Chris coached Greater Toledo Aquatic Club and St. Francis High School.  While with Greater Toledo Aquatic Club, he coached nine Junior National Champions, his swimmers set six Junior National meet records and won the 2000 women’s title at Juniors.  The Greater Toledo Aquatic Club also grew from 75 members to 170 members during his tenure.

As the coach of St. Francis de Sales High School, Chris guided the team to a State Title in 1998 and runner-up in 1997 and 1999.  While there, Chris’s swimmers set 9 of 11 varsity records, won 5 individual National tiles, set 4 State Records, one National record, and earned over 50 All-American Awards.  St. Francis also finished with Top 5 national rankings in three of his four years coaching.

Prior to coaching in Toledo, Chris was the Assistant Men’s Coach for Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from 1994-1996.  While at Miami, Chris worked with a team who had multiple Mid-American Conference Champions, an NCAA National Championship qualifier and maintained high academic standards.  The 1996 team earned 6 of 16 All Academic Honors in the Mid-American Conference.

Chris is a 1991 graduate of Miami University with a degree in Accounting, where he was a four year member of their varsity swimming team and team captain during the 1990-91 season.  Prior to his coaching career, Chris was the Accounting Manager for Borror Construction, a home builder in Columbus, Ohio.

Mike Wenert

Associate Head Coach, ASCA 4

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Mike has proven himself to be one of the country’s best age-group coaches.  Mike joined the Marlins in 1999.  As Head Age Group Coach, he lead the Marlins to seven Junior National Titles.  In addition, Mike has developed numerous Top 16 swimmers, many becoming top college prospects and Olympic Trial Qualifiers.

Mike is a Cincinnati native who grew up in Western Hills. He started swimming at Gamble Nippert YMCA when he was five years old.  He continued his swimming career at Elder High School and Wright State University where he received a degree in History.

Mike started his coaching career at Washington Township Recreation Center in 1993.  As head age group coach, he helped guide the WTRC Sharks to four 2^nd place finishes at the Ohio Age Group State Championships.  Mike has also served as the Head Coach for Princeton Aquatic Club and Princeton High School.

Mike lives in Cincinnati with his wife, Leslie and daughter, Olivia.

Jeremy A Wilken

Marlins Head Age Group Coach, ASCA 4

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Jeremy comes to the Marlins from Dayton, Ohio.  Jeremy has spent the last 14 years with the WTRC Sharks (10 as head age group coach).  While with the Sharks he was named 2002-2003 Coach of the Year.  During his time there he coached swimmers from novice to U.S. Open Champions.  Jeremy was in charge of the age group program that also produced many state champions, top sixteen qualifiers, national qualifiers, as well as a national age group record.  While head age group coach the Sharks were consistently among the top five age group teams in the state.

Jeremy grew up in the Dayton area graduating from West Carrollton High School and swimming for KEY Swimming.  Jeremy still resides in Dayton and also owns and operates a summer pool management company there.

Dan Guibord

Central Marlins Bronze Group Coach

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Dan Carl

Central Marlins Senior Coach

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Dr. Dan comes to the Marlins as a coach and science consultant for the Blue Marlins Group.  Dan is also the Head Coach of Sycamore High School.  Before coming to the Cincinnati Area Dan spent 9 years as the Head Coach of Valparaiso University where he was also a professor of sports physiology.  No stranger to coaching in Ohio, Dr. Dan served time as an assistant coach at The Ohio State University and Miami University.   Dan lives in Symmes Township with his wife Sarah, daughter Elizabeth, sons Elliott and Bishop.

Lauren A Prangley

Central Marlins Bronze Coach

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Lauren grew up in Buffalo, New York.  She began swimming at the age of five for the Amherst Swim Club.  She attended Miami of Ohio where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education.  Lauren swam at Miami for 4 years, holding school records in the 500, 1000, and 1650 freestyle events.  She was also the team captain her junior and senior years.

After college, Lauren began coaching for the Marlins while teaching in the Wyoming City Schools.  She coached the Supersquad group from 1993 - 1995, and also the Bronze group the summer of 1995.

Lauren lives in Wyoming with her husband, Bob, their sons Jonathan and Sam, and their daughter Rebecca.  Jonathan and Rebecca are proud Marlin swimmers.

Kim A Morstadt

Central Marlins Mini Coach

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Kim is a Cincinnati native who began her swimming career at the Gamble Nippert YMCA.  She swam for Oak Hills High School and for Purdue University on an athletic scholarship.  She was the Big Ten Champion in the 200 Butterfly in 1993 and 1994.  She was the first Purdue Women's Swimmer to qualify for the U.S. National Team and competed in the Pan Pacific Games in Kobe, Japan.  She was also team captain her junior and senior years.

After Purdue, Kim coached for several summer club programs including Delshire and Oak Hills Swim and Raquet Club.  While attending graduate school for Occupational Therapy, she was the assistant coach for the University of Indianapolis swimming program for 2 years.  This past summer, Kim assisted with the 8 and under program for the Wyoming Seadragons.

Kim lives in Wyoming with her husband, Dave, and their daughter, Madeleine, and sons, Will and Ben.  Both Madeleine and Will are proud Marlin Swimmers.

Chad Winkle

North Marlins Head Coach, ASCA Level 2

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Chad Winkle graduated from Princeton High School in 2003 and from the University of Cincinnati with a major in Political Science in 2007.  Chad has coached for the Sharonville Sharks summer team for the past five summers and is currently the Head Coach for Roger Bacon High School.  He is also in his third year coaching at Marlins North.

In 2007, Chad was promoted to Head Age Group coach at Marlins North.  Additionally, he took on the new responsibility as Site Communications Coordinator.

At the beginning of the 2008 Long Course season, Chad was named the Head Coach of Marlins North.  In addition to running the North satellite, he will also be the Head Coach for the Evendale Eagles Summer Club.

Lori M Witkowski

North Marlins Mini Group Coach

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Lori grew up in Plum Borough a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She began swimming at age 5 for the Plum Aqua Swim Club.  In junior high school Lori swam for the East Suburban YMCA.  This led to her joining the Plum High School Swim Team where she excelled in the 100 Back and 200 IM.  Lori graduated in 1989 from Robert Morris University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration & Marketing.

After getting married in 1992, Lori moved to Manhattan, Kansas where she was a volunteer swim coach with the Manhattan High School Indians Swim Team. 

After moving to Cincinnati from New Jersey in 1999, Lori returned to teaching and coaching at Powel Crosley YMCA (2000 – 2004) where she was an instructor in the YMCA swimming program.  During this time Lori was also an assistant coach for the 8 and under practice group for the Powel Crosley Swim Team.  Lori joined the East Butler YMCA in 2004 where she was a swim instructor and started a pre-competitive 9 and under swim program.  Lori joined the Marlins in 2009.

Outside of swimming Lori currently does freelance graphic design for local businesses.  Lori lives in West Chester with her husband Mark, daughter Tara and is expecting a new baby in May.

Abby Cooper

North Marlins Age Group Coach

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Abby joined the Marlins as a swimmer when she was 8 years old and swam for Mike, Chris and Dr. Dan.  After a successful career with the Marlins, Abby moved on to the University of Indiana as a scholar athlete, specializing in breastroke and IM.  Abby was a NCAA qualifier, Big Ten Team Champion and 2 time team captain.  Abby graduated in December, 2009 from IU with an Elementary Education degree and is looking for a teaching position in Cincinnati.

Abby starting coaching with the Marlins in the summer of 2009, helping out with the National and Silver groups at Central and is now coaching Gold at Marlins North.  She is also coaching the Lakota YMCA summer club team.

Timothy J Williams

North Marlins Asst. Coach

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Sue A House

Marlins South Head Coach

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Sue comes to the Marlins, after 29 years as the  Head Coach of East Central Swim Team and East Central High School in Southeastern, Indiana. During her career Sue has coached swimmers to three individual High School State Titles and over 20 swimmers to Indiana Age-Group State Titles.  Sue has been named Coach of the Year by the Eastern Indiana Athletic Conference 20 times for the girls and 22 times for the boys.  She was also named the Indiana High School Coach of the year in 2002.

In addition to her coaching accomplishments, Sue has been the swim lesson coordinator for the East Central Community for the last 30 years.  This program teaches 200-300 swimmers each year.  She is a Red Cross Instructor for Water Safety, Lifeguarding, and CPR.

Sue lives in Lawrenceburg , IN with her husband Ray (a very accomplished coach himself) and son Grant.  Sue also has a daughter Ashley Clements who helps with coaching duties and most importantly recently gave her a granddaughter. Son, Kyle was a scholarship athlete at Purdue and is continuing to pursue his degree & swimming at the Queens University in Charlotte , NC .

 
 

Jerri Freimuth

South Senior Coach/Masters, ASCA 3

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Jerri comes to us from the Northern Kentucky Clippers after many successful years of coaching many levels of the program.  She grew up in Edgewood, Kentucky and swam for Brookwood Swim Club and Scott High School.

Jerri had a very successful coaching and swimming career in Washington State.  She began swimming again in 1994 with United States Masters Swimming.  As a masters swimmer she was nationally ranked in the 100 and 200 breaststroke, winning the 200 breast at Nationals in 1998.  She also swam the great Chesapeake Bay for the March of Dimes in 1999 (placing 3rd in her age group) and 2007 (winning her age group).  From 1998-2000 Jerri was the assistant high school coach in Lebanon PA at Cedar Crest High School and coached the Falcon Swim Club also in Lebanon PA.  While in PA Jerri also worked at the Lebanon Valley Family YMCA teaching swim lessons and water aerobics from 1998-2000.

Jerri and her husband Joe moved back to Northern Kentucky after Joe retired from the United States Army after 20 years of service.

Dave Rollins

West Marlins Head Coach

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Dave Rollins joins the Marlins for his first year.  He comes to us from Arizona where he was previously the assistant coach of the Northern Arizona University Lumberjacks as well as the Head Coach of Flagstaff Peaks Aquatic Club from 2007 until May of 2010.  For the Lumberjacks, Rollins coached the Sprint group which, when he left, accounted for 7 of the school's individual records and members of each relay school record.  With PEAKS, Rollins over-saw the Senior swimmers and produced Flagstaff's first JR National Qualifer.  He also helped form the team in to a USA Swimming Bronze Medal Club.  Also while at PEAKS, Rollins had the fortune of working with Olympian Roman Sludnov who came to Rollins for a High Altitude training camp.  Roman was the first man to ever break 1:00 in the 100 LCM Breaststroke.

Prior to his time in Flagstaff, Rollins was an assistant coach with Tucson Ford Deals Aquatics in Tucson Arizona from March 2006 until October 2007.  In his time with FORD Rollins worked with all levels of athletes ranging from beginning swimmers to Olympic Trial qualifiers.

Rollins is a graduate of The University of Arizona where he was a member of the Swimming and Diving team from 2003 until 2006.  He was a 9 Time All-American for the Wildcats as well as a school record holder in the 100, 200 Breaststrokes, the 200 IM and the 200 Medley Relay.  In 2006 Rollins swam the Breaststroke leg of the 200 Medley Relay that became NCAA Champions.  Rollins' split on the relay is still the fastest by any American.

Rollins graduated from The University of Arizona in the winter of 2007 with a degree in interdisciplinary studies.  Born in Brockton, Mass. he spent the first 13 years of his life in New England and then relocated to sunny Tucson Arizona.  He is married to the former Caroline Keefe.

Kyle Bogenschutz

West Marlins Age-Group Asst. Coach

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Kyle entered his third year with the Marlins as a coach.  He has directed the age-group program at Taylor High School in an effective and positive way.  Swimmers not only learn to swim fast, but learn the fun provided by swimming. 

Kyle is a former Marlins swimmer and the Head Coach of Phillips Swim Club.

Mimi Strenk

West Marlins Silver Asst. Coach

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Mimi Strenk is starting her third year at Marlins West. This year, she will be coaching the Gold group. Prior to coaching for the Marlins, she coached at OHST for 4 years. In the past, she coached at McAuley High School for 4 years and was GGCL coach of the year for 2 years. She also coached at Oak Hills Swim and Racquet Club. Mimi swam for Gamble Nippert YMCA and Mother of Mercy High School. She swam at St. Louis University on an athletic scholarship.

Andrea Cornett

West Marlins 10 & Under Asst. Coach

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Andrea has been working with young swimmers for nearly forty years, primarily as a swim instructor. She developed her love of teaching as a high school student at Gamble Nippert YMCA, where she volunteered in the adaptive aquatics program. This experience steered her to a career choice in Special Education. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati and teaching for the Norwood City Schools & the Mount Campus School, Andrea coached summer swimmers and continued teaching swim lessons for Gamble Nippert, Oak Hills Community Program, College of Mount St. Joseph Community Program.

Once she and her husband, Richard, began having their own children, they installed a standard sized, two lane pool in their backyard, complete with starting blocks. It was here that Andrea ran her own instructional program nine months of the year---five of those months under an inflatable dome! After twenty years of backyard lessons, Andrea and her husband moved to Indiana. Her three children live in three different cities and are visited frequently by their parents. And yes, she did teach each of them how to swim!  

Robert C Langford

West Marlins Asst. Coach

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Rob has called Cincinnati home for his entire life and swam for the Cincinnati Marlins for 14 years starting at the age of 9.  He swam high school for St. Xavier where he qualified to the State meet his senior year.  He spent one year at Fordham University where he swam before transferring to the University of Cincinnati and swimming for the Bearcats for the 3 years.  Rob was elected Captain his final two years at UC and was also a part of two school record relays.  Rob graduated from UC in 2009 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting.

 

Caroline Rollins

Marlins West Age Group Coach

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Caroline Keefe Rollins brings a background in education and aquatics with deep ties to the Marlins and Cincinnati. An honors graduate in education from the University of Arizona, she most recently taught in Flagstaff, AZ. She will join the faculty of Summit Country Day School in August.

While at Arizona, she was part of 2 NCAA and 3 PAC-10 Championships as the swimming team manager. She was a member of the staff for the summer Arizona Swim Camps for 3 years and also taught in the lesson program at Hillenbrand Aquatics Center at U. of A.

Caroline is a graduate of St. Ursula Academy where she played volleyball and was a member of SUAVE (St. Ursula Academy Vocal Ensemble). In addition, her mom was an original Marlin and both her parents were long time Marlin coaches. Caroline is married to Marlin West head coach, Dave Rollins. They reside in Western Hills.

Tammi E Karn

Asst. Coach/Office Staff

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Tammi is currntly the Outreach Chairman for Ohio Swimming.  This is a position that was meant for her, as she has a great repertoire with kids and believes that children, no matter what their environment, can become extremely productive citizens when someone shows them trust and nuturing.  Tammi loves the sport of swimming and comes to us with many years of coaching experience.  Tammi is married to Matt Morris.  They have a daughter, Cecilia, a son, Jake, a new baby on the way nad 3 dogs at home.

Tammi started coaching at the age of 18 during the summers after having been involved in age group and high school swimming.  She started coaching year round as a 19 year old during that following winter season.  Her coaching resume includes time spent with Oak Hills Swim Team, The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Cincinnnati and with the Cincinnati Recreation Commission.  She has coached in the summers for Deer Run Country Club and Woodhaven Swim Club, as well as with Taylor High School, Holmes High School and Holy Cross High School on the high school level.  While coaching at the Boys and Girls Club of Cincinnati, Tammi’s club was one of a very few in the United States that competed with at least 90% of the team being outreach swimmers.

After being Head Satellite Coach of Marlins South for 4 years, Tammi has expressed her excitement over her new role with the team and looks forward to creating a new support position in the club that will bring more balance between coaches and administrative staff.

Judy Dusing

Business Manager

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Judy is in her 18th year with the Marlins.  She began as a volunteer while her sons participated on the team.  She then was employed as the team office manager before adding the title of Aquatic Director when Keating Natatorium was renovated. 

Judy is a Certified Pool Operator by the National Swimming Pool Foundation.  Her duties as Aquatic Director are far reaching. She is in charge of all aspects of our facility’s operation.  She schedules all practices and special events, maintains water quality and facility cleanliness, and insures compliance with all state and local regulations.

As our team-office manager, Judy maintains the physical office, all personnel records, and maintain all administrative records of a USA competitive swimming team.  She acts as the liaison between St. Xavier High School, Ohio Swimming, USA Swimming, and the Cincinnati Marlins.  Mrs. Dusing is a Level 1 USA Certified Swim Official and also works as one of the Southwest Commission’s Officials Co-Chairperson for Ohio Swimming, Inc.  Judy is in charge of all USA Swimming officials in Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky, the largest commission in the Ohio LSC.

Nicole Price

Accounts Manager

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