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Our regular coaches are: Malcolm Cooper, Jim O’Brien, Jim Tang, Josh Kramer
and Laura Lipp. Most of our coaches
continue swimming both as Masters (adult swimming) and with regular ocean swims;
and a few coaches register and participate in the USA-S meets. Malcolm (sprint
free, back and fly) was both
High-School & NCAA Div I All-Americans (i.e.; finalists at College Div I
Championships). Josh swam in college in Oregon. Laura just graduated after
swimming the NCAA Div III with SUNY New Paltz.
Check out our Summer Swimmer 2006
Letter from Coach Malcolm - and the
condensed version. This still holds true 2007!
- Malcolm Cooper
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Malcolm swam all four years at Harvard ('79). Malcolm has been head
coach of Maui Dolphins since 2002, coaching masters and/or adults for over
20 years, and was twice selected Maui News HS Coach of the Year. He is
an ASCA level 2 coach.
- Jim Tang
- Jim has been coaching our older swimmers since 2003. He also
helps coaching our masters team.
- Jim O'Brien
- Jim coaches our youngest swimmers. Jim gets in the water with the
newest swimmers to help them get their face wet, learn to kick and breath
... arguably the most challenging job we have. Jim is not only a
certified coach, he is also a certified lifeguard and WSI instructor who
keeps all the coaches properly certified. He also certifies many of
the personnel on boats around Maui.
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Josh Kramer
- Josh has been coaching mostly our flippers for a while now. He's been
swimming with masters for years (and is the current MMSC president). Josh works as a naturalist in Haleakala
Park working on, amongst other projects, tracking and supporting our Nene
(Hawaii's state and endangered bird) poplulation.
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Laura
Lipp
- Laura is our newest coach to the Maui Dolphins
splitting the duties coaching flippers with Josh ... and helping out with
Learn to Swim (she's Red Cross certified as WSI in addition to the other
requirements for coaching) and our older kids. She is recently from New
York where she studied Math Secondary Education at
SUNY New Paltz. Laura was also part of SUNY New Paltz's first
All-American swim team. Laura will be teaching math at Baldwin High School
along with assisting their swim team.
- Toni Sinnott
- Toni grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She started swimming as a
teenager, but soon was coaching her swim team. She has coached Maui
Masters for 10 years, and has taught kids swimming as an American Red Cross
Water Safety Instructor in many
places around the world but most recently in Kihei and Sakamoto Pools on Maui. She is
also the Hawaii Masters Swimming Association Registrar.
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- First year coaches, are reminded that they have to take the test this
year to renew their registration. It is available at
www.usaswimming.org. You can take the test on-line.
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