7 results for group: mac-coach

Lindsey McFarlane

I have been swimming all my life.  We had a pool in the back yard as a kid and my mom put us on the local team so we could be safe in the water.  I never stopped after that.  I swam competitively with Spartans and Sports Club as a uss swimmer.  Then continued to Novi High School and Northern Michigan University.  While at ... More

Janette Heaton

Janette began her coaching career as a high school student, and she continued coaching while pursuing a BA from Northern Michigan University. She ran summer coaching clinics at NMU while a still a student and coached the swim team at Negaunee High School during her final year at NMU. After college, she honed her skills during ... More

Melissa Richardson

As the story goes, I was swimming before I was walking and gave my mother many scary moments! I've always felt comfortable around water and joined a competitive swim team at age 7 (South Oakland YMCA Piranhas) and switched to the Oakland Live Yers (OLY) at age 10. I stopped swimming at age 14 and took a break from the sport ... More

Jim Izzi

I am somewhat new to swimming.  In 2007, while training for a triathlon, swimming in the Milford pool, I was interrupted by the MAC founder, and former Head Coach, Suzanne Grebe, who kicked me out of my lane and said “MAC masters swim practice is about to start”.   Reluctantly, I moved down to lane one, I watched MAC, ... More

Maria Veen

I have always had a love of water, even from infancy when I fell into the deep end of the pool & wanted to do it again after my brother fished me out. At the encouragement of a parks & recreation swimming instructor, my parents signed me up on the Birmingham YMCA swim team when I was 10. I barely passed the 200 yard ... More

Kris Goodrich

It seems like every which way I turn there is water in my life. I grew up on a small lake in Northville and spent all of my summers swimming in it every day (after my parents made me take every swim lesson and pre-team possible to make sure I was a strong swimmer). I refused to be on the swim team - staring at a black line all ... More

Dianne Johnson

Dianne graduated from Michigan State University is 2000 with a degree in Parks and Recreation, Natural Resource Based Management. While in school, Dianne had a successful swimming career as a captain and four-time top 16 finisher at the Big Ten Championships finishing her career at the 2000 Olympic Swimming Trials. After ... More