Our coaches are the heart of our swim team!
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Amy Webb, Head Coach, 15-18 age group coach
amy@webbwork.com
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.
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Laurie Johnson, Assistant Coach, 15-18 age group
lauriesj14@yahoo.com
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.
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Matt Ward, Assistant Coach, 13-14 age group
matthew4ward@gmail.com Matt 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!
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Tessie Myers, Assistant Coach, 11-12 age group
tessiemyers@gmail.com
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.
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Lauren Sampl, Assistant Coach, 9-10 age group
Lauren.Sampl@Colorado.EDU
Lauren began her swimming career at the age of nine with the Nelson Farm Gators summer club team in Fort Collins, and later competed for Fort Collins Area Swim Team and Fort Collins High School. Lauren recently graduated from the University of Colorado where she and her club teammates were four-time national champions! Her favorite events at CU were the 100 and 200 breast and the 200 IM, and she is looking at making a comeback in the 50 free!
In her free time, Lauren enjoys swimming, road biking, running, drinking caramel Frappuccinos at Starbucks, and hanging out with family and friends. She is currently working towards her certificate in massage therapy from the Boulder College of Massage Therapy. Lauren also works at SwimLabs in Highlands Ranch, helping swimmers of all ages learn to swim and fine-tune their stroke technique. This is her first summer of coaching, and she can’t wait to be a part of the Mesa team!
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Jessie Kasynski, Assistant Coach, 8&Under age group
jessie.kasynski@colorado.edu Jessie is a MESA alum, both as a swimmer and a coach. She swam for MESA for 8 years and coached for 3. She swam for Boulder High and briefly for University of Texas masters. Jessie attend University of Texas at Austin for 2 years and graduated from CU Boulder in 2001 with a B.A. in geography and in 2006 with a M.A. in education. Jessie is the Program Coordinator for the Presidents Leadership Institute at the University of Colorado. She has been with the organization for a year and loves working on campus and with students. Jessie lives in Boulder again after a 8 year stint in Denver and is very excited to return to MESA.
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Andrew Reetz, Assistant Coach, Pre-Team
andrew.reetz@gmail.com
Andrew Reetz is a Colorado native and a MESA alumnus who loves the water. He recently completed his first year at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon where he will be double-majoring in Cultural Anthropology and Foreign Languages (French/Japanese). This past semester, although he was not on the swim team, he tried rowing, which gave him an entirely new perspective of water sports. He is extremely happy to come home to Boulder to work with his favorite team. During the summer when away from the pool, Andrew enjoys mountain biking, photography, and gardening. He cannot wait to experience MESA Swim Team as a coach as he strives to provide young swimmers with encouraging critiques, enriching environments, and valuable amusement that will make them adore swimming as much as he does. "MESA ASEM!"
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Alice Hearn, Assistant Coach, Pre-Team
duckfeettheswimmer@hotmail.com
Alice started swimming at the age of five for Mesa and continued for thirteen years, culminating as an Immortal Mesa Swimmer in 2010. She swam for Fairview and was awarded the NISCAA Academic All American. Her favorite events are the fly and the 500 free. Currently, she is attending the University of Colorado at Boulder majoring in Biochemistry, with the long-term goal of becoming a pharmacist. Alice loves swimming and continues teaching private and group lessons through the City of Boulder, mentoring young swimmers. |
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Ariel Johnson, Assistant Coach, Pre-Team
ariel.Johnson31@gmail.com
Ariel Johnson was born in Boulder and has been living in Colorado ever since. She swam for MESA from age 7 until she graduated from high school. She just completed her second year at the University of Denver as an electronic media art major and a business minor. She coached pre team last summer and is very excited to be coaching pre team again in addition to the 8 and under mesa swimmers. She loves art, yoga, and hiking in addition to swimming her favorite stroke, breaststroke! She is looking forward to this summer as a mesa coach!
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