We are here to support your needs. If your questions are related to workouts, meets, events, goal setting, administrative questions, such as dues, safety, or policy issues, and other swimming related needs, please contact the coaches. 

Coaching Staff:

Tom Kiddoo
Head Coach 

Coach Tom initially joined the Avon Swim Club as a swim parent in 2017, and then as an assistant coach in August of 2022. He grew up in Jamestown, NY where he began swimming competetively at age 12. Following high school, Tom swam at the collegiate level for Denison University specializing in distance freestyle where he gratuated with a BA in Psychology.

In the Fall of 1992, Tom made his way to Vail, CO where he would coach and participate in a local Master's Swimming Program for the next 30+ years. Tom and his wife currently live in Avon, CO where they share their love for the mountains with their two incredible adult children. 

Coach Tom is excited to continue to lead the growth of the Avon Swim Club alongside a talented and well established team of coaches.

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!