
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.
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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 2nd 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
Guibord grew up and
has lived in Cincinnati his entire life. He swam with the
Marlins for 11 years starting his career as an eleven year old in
1993. He swam for St. Xavier High School and was captain of
the team his senior year. After graduating from St. X, he went on
to swim for Miami University. He swam for three years at Miami
and was a student-assistant coach his fourth year. Dan
graduated from Miami Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree
in Exercise Science. Dan is now attending PT School at
UC.
Dan started
coaching the summer after his senior year in high school as an
assistant to the Gold and Silver groups. This summer was his
fourth summer as a Marlin’s coach. He originally
returned to the Marlins as an assistant, but was named the Head Age
Group Coach during the summer of 2005. Dan gave up the head
age group job for the Bronze group and PT
school.

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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Tim joined the Marlins
as a swimmer and swam for Mike, Chris and Dr. Dan. After a
successful career with the Marlins Tim moved on to Penn State
University. While at Penn State, he was a NCAA qualifier 3
out of 4 years, set 3 school records, was a one time big ten
Swimmer of the Week and a one time NCAA Swimmer of the
Week. Tim also participated at the Olympic Trials in the
100 and 200 butterfly events.

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
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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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