Coaches and Directors
Bill Rose has been the Head Coach of the Foothills Swim Team since September of 2009. Prior to establishing his coaching career, Bill spent 13 years as a competitive swimmer achieving the levels of Texas High School State Finalist, High School Academic All American, NCAA National Champion, NCAA Academic All American, and Olympic Trials Qualifier. He holds a Masters in Exercise Physiology from Drury University in Springfield, MO.
After a successful career in swimming, Bill Rose now coaches other people to achieve the same success. Throughout his coaching career he has helped guide many swimmers to the levels of Sectional, Junior Nationals, USA Nationals, and Olympic Trials. Along the way, he has also helped individuals reach top 100 rankings in the world.
Coach Rose started his coaching career in 1995 as an Age Group Coach with the Alamo Area Aquatics Association in San Antonio, TX from 1995-1998. Coach Rose moved to Springfield, MO in 1998 where he became the Head Age Group Coach for the Springfield Aquatics program from 1998-2005. Coach Rose served as the Assistant Coach for Drury University Men’s and Women’s national championship teams from 2000-2005. In 2005 he moved on to become the Head Coach for the Topeka Swim Association where he had great success until 2009!
Coach Rose offers a wide range of coaching education and experience helping him to specialize in coaching young athletes to achieve their goals in the sport of swimming. By using cutting edge ideas from advanced strength training methods to creative, forward-thinking pool training, Coach Rose has developed an identity of success and hard work for his athletes.
I was first introduced to competitive swimming when I was 4 years old in Orlando, Florida. When I was 10, my family moved to New Hampshire, and I grew up swimming with Greenwood Memorial Swim Club, now Greenwood Swimming, in Gardner, Massachusetts.
I swam for 4 years at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where I graduated with a degree in Interpersonal and Organizational Communications. While at UNC, I held school records in the 100 yard breaststroke and the 200 and 400 yard medley relays and competed in the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, as well as the 2009 U.S. World Championship Team Trials.
I gained my first professional experience immediately following graduation, as the Head Coach of a summer league team in Cary, North Carolina. Following that, I coached with the Marlins of Raleigh Swim Team, where I worked primarily with 13 and Over swimmers. While with MOR, I coached swimmers to multiple NC 14 & Under Championships, Junior National qualifying standards, and an NC Senior Championship Team title. For the past 3 years, I have been the Director and Head Coach of the Hillsborough Aquatic Club in Hillsborough, North Carolina. In my 3 years with HAC, I have coached coaches swimmers to the NC 14 & Under and Senior Championships, the 14 & Under Southeastern Sectional Championships and have placed swimmers on the top 10 times list for NC Swimming.
Chuck first fell in love with swimming at age 11 after joining the Raccoon Valley Masked Bandits summer league swim team. Ever since swimming has been a constant in his life. In high school, he was captain of his swim team in his sophomore, junior, and senior years and qualified for states every season. After college, Chuck made the transition from athlete to coach. In his career, he has spent 2 years as an assistant coach and 26 years as head a head coach working with athletes ranging from beginners to a swimmer ranked number 1 in the country for YMCA swimming. Coaching has brought Chuck from New Jersey to Maryland, Minnesota, and now Colorado.
Being a coach allows Chuck to share the passion and excitement he felt as a young swimmer with athletes of the next generations. His philosophy is that through swimming athletes can grow not just in the sport, but as people as well. Swimming is a tool in which he can teach goal setting, coping constructively with failure and the value of stick-to-itiveness. Seeing the development of these kids both as athletes and people is what keeps him excited about the sport.
Coach Chuck is thrilled with the opportunity to work with a new group of athletes here in Colorado. He hopes to enrich Foothills Swim Team with his experience and learn from this community of coaches and families along the way.
I started swimming when I was 5 for my neighborhood summer league team in Denver. I continued swimming all through school on various club teams as well as all four years on my high school team at Cherry Creek High School. I also swam on the club team at the University of Kansas before transferring to CSU after my freshmen year. My favorite event is the 500 freestyle with the 200 freestyle being a close second!
I began coaching when I was 15 for the summer league team that I started out on. I started as a Junior Assistant Coach and then moved up as an Assistant Coach. I coached a total of 7 summers with kids ages 2-18 before moving to San Diego to complete an internship. After completing my internship and becoming a Registered Dietitian, I moved back to Colorado and started with FST in October 2018. In addition to being a Dietitian, I am super excited to be coaching again and sharing a sport that I love with young athletes who have the same passion!
I grew up swimming for Central Iowa Aquatics in Des Moines, Iowa. I was brought out west to swim for the University of Wyoming for three of the four years I studied there. I started my coaching career during Covid back home in Iowa with my coach growing up. Being around it from a different perspective showed me how much I loved being around swimming. Knowing I loved the mountain west I knew I wanted to move back here to work and coach in Denver, and I’m so thankful that’s what happened!
I am a firm believer in the importance of student-athlete leadership, balance, and success. My lifelong love for swimming started at the age of 5 in Aurora, Colorado at MACS where I eventually earned All-Stars, Zones, and Sectional team honors. For Smoky Hill High School, I was a Colorado 5A state relay champion, state record holder, All-Colorado, NISCA Swimming All-American, NISCA Academic All-American, International Baccalaureate Diploma graduate, and AP Scholar. At Claremont McKenna College in California, I was an NCAA Division III All-American, SCIAC conference champion and record holder, NCAA Academic All-American, and honors graduate with a degree in International Relations. I am an active masters swimmer with masters world championships medals and top-10 age group world rankings. I’ve worked with thousands of students and swimmers as a classroom teacher, program director, and swim coach in California, China, and Hong Kong; most recently as the Head of Aquatics for Kellett School (a group of British international schools in Hong Kong) from 2018-2022. I am an American Swimming Coaches Association Level 5 International Age Group certified coach having had the privilege to work with and lead learn-to-swim to AAAA-standard swimmers of all ages.
I am so looking forward to getting back into the coaching world. I have loved swimming ever since I started Mommy and Me classes when I was a toddler. I am most excited to build relationships with the swimmers and help them reach their goals while having fun! My favorite strokes are Butterfly and Freestlye, as I was a distance freestyler and 200 butterflier in my prime. I am currently in the last year of my Master’s program in Clinical Counseling, so I place a high value on the mental health of my athletes. I look forward to working with the swimmers and their families!
