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Coaching Staff:

Meghan Hershey
Head Coach 

Coach Meghan joined the Avon Swim Club in January of 2017. She grew up in Lancaster Pennsylvania, where she started swimming competitively at the age of 8. Meghan swam for the Diplomat Swim Club for five years before swimming collegiately for four years at Franklin and Marshall college. During her senior year she was a co-captain of the team an received the Centennial Conference Sportsmanship Award and the George McGinness Award for Outstanding Sportsmanship. Her Favorite strokes are breastroke, IM, and freestyle. 

Meghan began coaching by volunteering for the Mount Joy Swim team at the age of 13. When she was 19 she began managing the Mount Joy Lions Club Pool and running their lesson program which she had previously taught for five years. During college she was also a coach for the Mount Joy Swim Team. 

Meghan graduated in 2016 from Franklin and Marshall college with a B.A. in Psychology and a concentration in business. She is very passionate and excited about the Avon Swim Club and hopes to inspire a love for swimming in the children she works with.

Ali Murray
Assistant Coach

Ali Murray’s first swimming memory consists of trying to go off the high-dive at a pool in Colorado at age 3. While she didn’t make the jump then, she dove right into all things swimming when her family moved to Oahu, Hawaii, shortly thereafter. After nearly five years of swimming the ocean more often than not, Ali’s family moved to Montana where she began taking swimming lessons at age 9 to develop her strokes and diving abilities. Once in high school, Ali swam competitively until her junior year. Also while in high school, Ali began working for Montana State University-Billings Rec Activities, lifeguarding and teaching swimming lessons. Ali continued to work in the aquatics department of MSU-B through her high school and college years. In her last year with MSU-B, she ran the swimming lesson program consisting of five hour-long lessons per day with up to six children per instructor for six consecutive weeks. Once Ali finished her journalism and political science BA from the University of Montana-Missoula, she moved in Denver, Colorado, to pursue law school. Before she could follow-through on that goal, Ali accepted a copy editing and page designer job with a high-country newspaper and moved up to the Vail Valley. While working for the paper, Ali began coaching Mountain Recreation’s (WECMRD) youth recreation swim team, the Aqua Eagles, working her way up to head coach by the 2019 summer season. A passion for teaching swimming lessons and coaching finally couldn’t be ignored anymore and Ali left the newspaper after six years to pursue working in recreation full time. In fall 2020, Ali began working in the Town of Avon’s aquatics department and looks forward to sharing her limitless imagination and love of all things swimming with the Avon Swim Club!