Platinum Coach: Dave Wakeley Dave Wakeley brings great excitement and enthusiasm to our swimming program and has earned a reputation as a stickler for stroke mechanic detail. He is a true student of the coaching profession and will leave no stone unturned to encourage our youngsters to improve at every level of their development.

 

Gold Coach: Dimitar Petrov Coach Dimitar has been coaching in ACAC since the fall of 2005. Under Dimitar's training many Silver 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 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 (1988).

 

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Silver I/II Coach: Kristin Greer A fellow Jersey Wahoo swimmer and recent graduate of University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2005, with a degree in Communications and English, Kristin swam for the UNCW Seahawks as a 50 and 100 sprint freestyler, holding two records as a freshman Division one swimmer. She began her coaching career for the Suburban summer swim league, Sturbridge Woods Swim Club, for the past 5 years, with 120 swimmers between the ages of 4-18. She fully believes in working on stroke mechanics, technique, sportsmanship, and being a mentor to her swimmers. Kristin is thrilled to be part of this team and hopes to be a positive influence in and out of the water for her Silver I and II swimmers!

 

Bronze Coach: Ryan Gaskill Ryan is the newest addition to the coaching staff and will be working with our Bronze group.  Ryan was an assistant coach with the Jersey Pleasantville Aquatic Club.  He also helped head up the learn to swim program for the Pleasantville Public Schools.  Ryan is excited to join the Atlantic City Aquatic Club and work with the Bronze group.

 

Coach Dante Braxton

Dante has greatly contributed at our MLK pool site and developed many of our finest young swimmers. He has participated in USA Swimming’s Outreach Coaching Program at the USOC Training Center in Colorado.

Coach Rodney Braithwaite

Rodney is a multi-talented supervisor with the City’s Department of Youth Services. Rodney has now focused his attention on coaching and promoting swimming through the ACAC program and oversees our MLK site.