Our coaches are the heart of our swim team!
updated 7/5/09
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Amy Webb, Head Coach, 15-18 age group coach
Amy swam in the BVSSL for 11 years with Mesa Swim Team. She
competed for Niwot High School. Her BVSSL summer coaching experience includes the Flyers Swim Team and Mesa Swim Team. Currently, Amy is an assistant coach for Fairview High School Girls Swimming & Diving Team and the Fairview High School Boys Swimming & Diving Team. She also competes on the national
level for Boulder Aquatic Masters. She continues to teach swimming lessons to all
ages.
Amy is married to Andrew and has 4 cats (and thinks it takes 5 to actually be called a crazy cat lady): Fly, M, Bernie and Fluff. For fun, Amy rides English Dressage on a 24 year old Morgan named Stormy.
Amy's favorite races to swim are the 50 and 100 free, 100 and 200 breast and her favorite races to watch are the butterfly races.
amy@webbwork.com
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Amy |
Laurie Johnson, Assistant Coach, 15-18 age group
Laurie has been swimming competitively since she was seven. Unfortunately, her parents did not know about Mesa or BVSSL, so she was on CARA (City of Boulder) until she joined a year-round team at age 12. She swam for Fairview and was team captain senior year (like some of our own Mesa swimmers) and then swam at Cornell College, a Division III school in Mount Vernon, IA, where she was also team captain. Laurie's best event was 200 butterfly, setting school records in that event and a few others.
Laurie began coaching as an assistant for Boulder Burst, when the City of Boulder started a team that was a part of BVSSL. She became the head coach after one year and stayed with the team for 10 years before moving to Kentucky. The team is now combined with another to make the Barracudas. In Kentucky, Laurie coached club for Wildcat Aquatics for a few seasons, but then decided it was time to come back home and start a family.
She and her husband, Rob, moved back in May, 2001, and Laurie started coaching that summer with Mesa. About 10 days after finals in 2002, Laurie had her son, Avery. She stayed with Mesa through the summer of 2005, but then did not return after the birth of her second child, Lainey.
Laurie took a second summer off in 2007, to be a part of opening a new hospital as a part of her job as Registration Manager at Platte Valley Medical Center. Her love of swimming and Mesa brought her back to Mesa in 2008. Laurie loves being a part of the Mesa program. To maintain balance in her family and work life, she is only able to able to coach part time. She will be dedicated to the 15-18 age group and will try to connect with as many others as she can.
lauriesj14@yahoo.com
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Laurie Johnson |
Cate Beaton, Assistant Coach, 13-14 age group
Cate has been swimming since the age of six beginning on her local recreation team in Windsor, Connecticut. She has also competed at the USS, high school (captain her junior and senior years), and College levels. She loves swimming and considers herself a distance swimmer; the 200 and 500 free were her favorites in high school. She began coaching in 1995 at the recreational level and has since gained experience at the USS and High school levels. She continues to love the teaching aspects of swimming and teaches swim lessons to all ages. cate.beaton@gmail.com
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Cate Beaton |
Matt Ward, Assistant Coach, 11-12 age group is another BVSSL alum (go Mesa!) who loves the sport and loves coaching! He started teaching lessons at the age of 15 and has coached for BVSSL teams, masters programs at the University of Colorado, BAM and RallySport as well as individual coaching for triathletes. Matt’s favorite events are the 200 fly and the 200 and 400 IM. During his BVSSL days, his events were the 50 free and 100 breast. After a few years off he is getting back in the water this year, so when you see him, make sure he’s getting his workouts in! Look out kids, there may be a fast coaches relay this year! matthew4ward@gmail.com
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Matt
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Tessie Myers, Assistant Coach, 9-10 age group
Tessie grew up in Boulder and started swimming when she was seven with the Boulder Poseidon's. She continued to swim with North Jeffco, RACE and all four years at Monarch High School. Tessie graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Biology and a minor in Human Physiology. She has been teaching lessons on and off for the past ten years with Rally Sport Health Club for Swim America, the YMCA and Boulder Swimming Academy. She moved to sunny San Diego where she coached La Costa Canyon High School swim team, Kearny Mesa Swim Club and at the Naval Hospital. Tessie also worked for Scripps Healthcare in an orthopedic office. In the past year she moved back to Colorado and is currently applying to graduate school and working for a local C.P.A office. Tessie is excited to start coaching again and looks forward to meeting all the swimmers. tessiemyers@gmail.com
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Tessie Myers
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Kristi Crawford, Assistant Coach, 8 & under age group
Kristi has been swimming since she was nine years old, competing every summer on her neighborhood team until she was 18. She was also on the varsity team all 4 years at Grandview High School and is now headed into her junior year at CU, where she swims on the club team. Kristi's favorite events are any distance of backstroke and IM. She has been teaching swim lessons for years and is looking forward to coaching competitive swimming.
Kristine.Crawford@Colorado.EDU
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Kristi Crawford
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Abbie Hebein, Assistant Coach, 8 & under age group
Abbie started swimming when she was six years old on Mesa Swim Team and graduated last year as an immortal Mesa swimmer. She also swam on the varsity team of Boulder High for four years and was captain for her senior year. Abbie is now swimming for Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Abbie loves to swim the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle. She has taught swim lessons for Boulder Swimming Academy and is excited to coach for her favorite summer swim league team!
aroseh24@comcast.net
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Abbie Hebein
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