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.
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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.
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!
