MontgomeryAncientMariners
Coaches
Clay Britt, Head Coach
Montgomery Aquatic Center
(Thursday, Sunday)
Clay has been a competitive swimmer for 38 years and
a swimming instructor for 14 years. A local Washingtonian, Clay was recently
regarded as the best Montgomery County Swim League swimmer of all time in
the Washington Post. Both a competitor and a coach, Clay understands your
goals and knows how to help you achieve them.
Find out more about Clay Britt.
Peter Johnson
Montgomery Aquatic Center (Tuesday)
Peter played football and baseball throughout High
School. He was in the Coast Guard for five years and during that time served
for a year onboard a cutter performing search-and-rescue missions. He has coached junior level basketball
and baseball. He joined the Montgomery Ancient Mariners nine years ago and
has been coaching the team four years.
Cathy Gainor
Montgomery Aquatic Center
(Friday)
Cathy has been
swimming since she was 8, when she joined Twin Farms in the Montgomery County
Swim League. She began swimming with Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club (the
kids who swim on the other side of the pool Sunday mornings) when she was
12, first at Piney Branch and then at MLK when it opened. She swam high school
at Paint Branch and taught lessons at MLK for several summers during college.
Cathy joined the Ancient Mariners in September 2003 after swimming on her
own for 18 years, making up her own workouts along the way. This is her first
season coaching.
Marco Tulio Quinonez
Martin Luther King Swim Center
(Wednesday)
Marco was a long-distance champion and coach in his
native Guatemala. He held state records in the 400 and 1500 meter freestyle
and a 1962 national record for his 18 km swim across Lago Atitlan. He has
been coaching since 1971 and is a member of the A.S.C.A , N.I.S.C.A.
He has been coaching the Montgomery Ancient Mariners since 1998.
Lisa Wolf
Olney Swim Center
(Tuesday)
Lisa swam competitively
for local YMCA, summer and AAU teams while growing up in Pennsylvania. She
hung up her suit after high school but got back into the water with the
Ancient Mariners in 2002 after watching her oldest son swim with
the neighborhood team. She competes in local meets, open water events and
trains for competition in triathlons. Lisa is a certified USA Swimming Coach
at ASCA Level II. She finds coaching at Olney an interesting challenge, as
there is a wide range of swimmers, including very accomplished swimmers,
triathletes, and swimmers "returning to the fold" after a few years out of
the water. She makes the workouts fun and challenging at the same time.
Andy Fraser
Olney Swim Center (Thursday)
Andy Fraser coaches
on Thursdays at the Olney Swim Center. He swam for Montgomery College and
St. Mary's College of Maryland. He has been a member of the Ancient
Mariners since 1993 and has coached at the Olney Swim Center since the Fall
of 2001. Andy swam the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (4.4 Miles) Swim 3 times
CJ Lockman Hall
Olney Swim Center (Saturday)
CJ Lockman Hall swam at Princeton University and joined
USMS a few years after college. She has trained with the Montgomery Ancient
Mariners team since its inception and has been a regular coach. She has also
coached MSCL teams and Rockville Masters. CJ has USMS Top 10 rankings and
USMS Nationals top-ten placings in many events. She is currently the Potomac
Valley Treasurer and is married to Ancient Mariner Micky Hall.
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