Coaches & Directors

Coaches Joel, Cejih, Stephanie, Paloma and Casey are available to discuss athlete’s workouts, meets, and personal goal-setting. Look for them on-deck before or after swim practice, or drop them a line at their e-mail addresses below. 

Our board members welcome your feedback regarding club dues, policy or parent volunteer information – contact them at one of the e-mail addresses below, or find them at any swim practice.  

Questions regarding legality of that last flip turrn?  Try Jim Bruya - zip him a quick e-mail and see if you can stump the deck judge!   Jim is WWA’s stroke and turn judge, and generally familiar with the legal and the outlandish.

Coaching Staff

Joel B Schweiger

Head Coach

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Joel began swimming during his sophomore year when a girlfriend dared him to try out for high school swim team. He made the team, and was hooked. He pursued club swimming when he realized that high school training wasn’t adequate for where he wanted to be. He has swum at the high school, club, collegiate and Masters levels, then went on to duplicate that with his coaching career.  

He coached the Moreno Valley Aquatic club, then Riverside Aquatics (RAA), one of the more established clubs in the Orange section of the Southern California Swimming LSC.  While there, Joel worked closely with area high school coaches to produce quality swimmers, believing that he and the HS coach both sought the same goal. 

Joel plans to have a strong team of swimmers at every level, and will rely on his coaching staff to produce quality swimmers. He has strong expectations, but recognizes that there are different coaching techniques that could be employed to relate to each swimmer. 

Joel wants all of the swimmers to know him and to see him on deck several times a week. He prefers to evaluate each swimmer’s performance with the other coaches during swim meets, and believes that swimmers should be honored when they make the higher cuts. 

Casey Murphy

Rapids 1 and Squad 1 Coach

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Casey Murphy has been a coach of WWA for seven years and a certified USA coach for nine years. Her coaching career started in Arizona after she finished swimming for Arizona State University where she earned All-American swimming honors at the NCAA championships.

While coaching in Arizona and in Seattle, she has had the opportunity to work with athletes of all levels and abilities. Many have reached up to the Age group sectional level and are amongst the best in the Pacific Northwest. Besides writing workouts and helping swimmers prepare themselves to be the best they can be, she believes it is very important to teach her swimmers the true life long values of swimming. She wants her swimmers to understand how to set goals and take ownership of their swimming.

During the day Casey works at Hilltop Elementary as an assistant principal.  She has been involved in teaching for the last eight years with the Highline School District.  Casey continues to enjoy swimming as well spending time with her family.
 

Stephanie M Cummings

Age Group Coach

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Cejih Yung

Age Group Coach

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Coach Cejih (CG) has been involved in competitive swimming since he was eleven years old, swimming for the South Snohomish County Dolphins and the Evergreen Swim Club in Olympia.  Cejih earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in International Studies (China) and graduated in 2007.  While at UW, he was a Pac-10 finalist in the 100 and 200 yard breaststrokes and an accomplished 400IM'er.  During the spring and summer of his senior year, CG was a coach on White Water Aquatics.  After graduation, he traveled to China to work as an English teacher at the Shanghai Maritime University for one year.  After one year CG continued to pursue this opportunity and took a job with American President Lines (APL Ltd.) and moved to Hong Kong, working as a bi-lingual account manager.  After two more years in Hong Kong, he has finally returned to beautiful Seattle and is very excited to be part of the White Water family again! 

Board of Directors

Ed Marrs

President

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Noelle M Kawaguchi

Treasurer

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Bryan Hastings

Coach Liaison

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Mike O'Kelley

Secretary

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Nina Zacharias

Social Activities

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Diane L Evans

Member-At-Large

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Jim Bruya

Stroke and Turn Judge

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