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Casey is an alumni of LAC who has
returned to coach the team. As Head Coach, he oversees the entire
LAC competitive swim program, working directly with the Senior and
Senior Prep training groups. Casey came on as an assistant at
LAC in 2005 before being named the Head Coach in 2008. As an
assistant coach, Casey helped LAC develop its Age Group swimmers
into successful Senior level swimmers. His swimmers broke
multiple team records, qualified for the Eastern Zone All Star
team, were Junior Olympic Champions, and placed top 16 in the
country. Also, in the summer of 2007 Casey helped coach the
13-14 girls to a team championship at Junior Olympics.
In the time since Casey has taken
over as the Head Coach of LAC the team has broken over 50 team
records including multiple relay records. LAC has placed in
the top 10 in twice at the Sectional meet and the girls have placed
in the top 5 3 different years. He has also coached a 3x PIAA
state record holder, both an individual Sectional Champion and a
relay Championship, a USA Junior National finalist, 4 USA Junior
National qualifiers, a National Select Camp qualifier, and a member
of the USA Swimming National Youth Team and Jr. Pan Pac team.
Recently Casey was chosen to be an assistant coach for the 2012 USA
Swimming National Select Camp at the Olympic Training Center in
Colorado Springs.
Before coaching at LAC, Casey was the
assistant coach for Durham Academy in Durham, NC from
2004-2005.
As a swimmer at LAC, Casey was a 3
time Jr National Champion, qualified and swam both the 200 and
400IM at the 2000 Olympic Trials and placed 20th in the 200IM at
the 2001 Summer Nationals. Casey still holds several LAC team
records. A graduate of North Carolina where he attended on a
swimming scholarship, Casey was a 6 time ACC individual finalist
and 5 time ACC individual Consolation finalist. His 200IM time
ranked 10th fastest all time in UNC swimming history upon
graduation.
In Spring 2012, Margaret will be
returning to LAC for her 5th year with Lancaster Aquatic Club. She
is currently the Head Age Group Coach and has held this position
for 2 years. Margaret is ASCA level 3.
Margaret comes to LAC with over 14
years of coaching experience. She has served in the head coach
position at Ridley Township Swim Club and Tinicum Township Swim
Club. Margaret has also served in the assistant position at Cabrini
College and Notre Dame Academy for Girls (Villanova).
Margaret was the Aquatic Director at Rocky Run YMCA for 3 years
before moving to the Lancaster area and becoming a Therapuetic
Staff Support and an assistant teacher at The New School of
Lancaster.
Margaret swam for the Swarthmore
Seadevils, Cardinal O"hara High School and Widener University swim
teams. Margaret graduated from Widener with a degree in Business
Administration with a concentration on sports management. She
currently lives in Manheim with her husband Sam and their two
children.
Lisa is a 2010 graduate from the
University of Pittsburgh where she attended on an athletic
scholarship. While swimming at PITT, Lisa was
one of six Panthers to score top 16 finishes in all of her
individual and relay events at the Big East Championship, was a
member of multiple top 5 relay teams, and was named the second
highest point earner for the 2010 Big East
Championship. She holds the second best recorded
team times in the 100 and 200 freestyle, and the 200 I.M. She
earned All Big East Team honors all four years in a variety of
events, including the 100, 200 free, 100 back, 100 fly, and 200 I.M
and the 200, 400, and 800 free relays which also earned NCAA
provisional cuts.
In high school, Lisa competed for
Hempfield High School and Trident Swim Club. In
her senior season she was state champion in the
100 freestyle and silver medalist in the 100
fly. She earned 16 district and 9 state medals
and earned All-American status in multiple events throughout her
high school career. She was a Junior National,
National, Grand Prix, and U.S Open World Trials qualifier in the
100 backstroke with a time of 55.79 which placed her 7th
for the NAG in the 16 year old
division.
This summer, Lisa is also coaching
the Lititz Springs Swim Team.
Bonnie grew up in the water.
She swam on two summer teams, and the YMCA team during the winter
months for the 8 years. Although due to academics, she wasn't able
to swim in college, she did participate in a Master's program after
graduation. After moving to Lancaster, Bonnie signed up to be
a part of the Swim America program, trying to share her love
for the sport. After marriage and kids, she signed her kids
up for a program that was described to her as the "BEST program and
coaches by far, in Lancaster County"....that club? Lancaster
Aquatic Club.
Fast forward a couple years, and
there she stood, on deck, coaching for the same team and hoping
that she could do the same for the many kids she was going to coach
in the coming years. That journey began in 2008, when
we were still at Golden Meadows. That same summer she began
volunteering and evolved into coaching with the Hempfield
Stingrays. Coaching has since grown to become an integral part of
Bonnie's life. Bonnie is currently an ASCA level 3.
During her non-coaching hours, she
owns her own business offiering a variety of services like cosmetic
tattooing, tattoo removal, and various services involving lasers,
that help (mostly) women feel more confident, and beautiful!
(And I get boys....!?!) Bonnie calls it a win win...can't get
much better than this!
Fall 2012 is Coach Liz Frey's first
season with Lancaster Aquatic Club. She is excited to be back
coaching again after a year-long break of teaching English in
Malaysia. Prior to coaching here, Liz was a summer league assistant
coach for the Millersville Swim Team for 5
summers.
Liz is a 2011 graduate of Gettysburg
College, where she majored in Political Science. Liz swam for both
the Penn Manor High School team and the Millersville Swim Team. In
addition to swimming, Liz loves to run, read lots of books, and
spend time with her family and her dog, Zoe.
