Head Coach: Platinum & Orange Coach:  David Wakeley David Wakeley has been involved with the ACAC as either the Gold or Platinum level coach for 9 years and brings great excitement and enthusiasm to our swimming program.  Within the last 6 years, many of the swimmers under his tutelage have achieved levels of participation in the following events:  Junior Olympics, MA Zone Team, Top Sixteen, Sectionals.  He has also served 3 years as a MA Zone coach and Head MA Zone coach in the summer of 2007.  He has earned a reputation as a stickler for stroke mechanic detail and is a true student of the coaching profession.  He will leave no stone unturned to encourage our swimmers to improve at every level of their development. Coach Dave graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University and brings his scientific, technical bent to his coaching.  He competed on the colleges swim and water polo teams and has achieved many swimming awards including the following:  Freshman, Sophomore, and Senior 200 Butterfly school records, Freshman Medley Relay school record (he swam butterfly),

 

Gold Coach: Dimitar Petrov Coach Dimitar has been coaching in ACAC since the fall of 2005. Under Dimitar's training many Silver and Gold Group's swimmers have reach Junior Olympic qualifying times and winners at MA Mini Championship. Currently, Coach Dimitar works with Gold Group swimmers who are at top Junior Olympic level and successfully competed in 2007 Eastern Zone Team. In his previous experience, Coach Dimitar has been training the Junior and Intermediate Groups for Ocean City C-Cerpance.  He is from Bulgaria, where he spent most of his swimming career. As a swimmer he accomplished World Champion of Marathon Swimming (1996), World Master Champion (1998), 4th place at US Nationals-25K (1998), 5th place and 15 NCAA Division II All-American titles (2000-2003), 7th place at European Championship SCM(1989), Bulgarian National Record Holder (1988-93), ranked at World Top 50 in 1500 LCS(1988).

 

Silver  & Bronze Coach: Erin Grant Erin started instructing our Learn-to-Swim program the summer of 2008 and has done a wonderful job.  We will continue to have her on board teaching the Minnows and, starting the fall of 2008, she will be one of our Bronze group coaches.

 

Bronze  & Minnows Coach: Katie Sawyer Katie assisted her sister Erin in our Learn-to-Swim program the summer of 2008 and her valuable help and expertise has helped to make this new program a success.  She will continue to teach the Minnows and will also be one of our Bronze group coaches starting the fall of 2008.

 

Minnows Coach: Dante Braxton   Dante has greatly contributed at our Martin Luther King pool site and developed many of our finest young swimmers. He has participated in USA Swimming Outreach Coaching Program at the USOC Training Center in Colorado.  He will join us at the ACHS pool in the fall of 2008 as one of our Minnows group coaches.