Head Coach Jim Sharp 

Jim Sharp, a retired high school swim coach from Lafayette, Indiana, is a distinguished member of the American Swimming Coaches Association Level 4, USA Swimming, and the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association. Throughout his illustrious career, Sharp has received numerous awards, including the Indiana USA Swim Coach of the Year Award, an induction into the Indiana High School Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame, the American Swim Coaches Association Certificate of Recognition, and the title of Sectional High School Swim Coach of the Year more than 14 times

Coach Bailey Peterson 

Coach Bailey has been around water since she was born! She started swimming lessons before she could walk and started swimming competitively at the age of 6. After swimming for years, at 14 she started teaching swimming lessons at the YMCA and became a lifeguard at 15. After a successful club and high school swimming career, a shoulder injury ended her time in the lap lanes at 18. She continued to teach lessons, eventually moving to coaching swim team. She and the other coaches led their team to multiple Zones and States meets – a total of 13 swimmers during her tenure. She even got her Lifeguard Instructor certification and trained over 100 new lifeguards.  After 5 years of coaching and going to college, she stepped back from coaching to go work in the corporate world. But… after a few years at a desk, she decided to come back to the pool and found her way to Northglenn Fusion. Her philosophy on coaching is that hard work and fun need to go hand in hand. While our goal is to build better and faster swimmers, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room to have fun and joke around (as long as you are still listening to your coaches). 

Coach Khin Htwe Thein (GuGu)

Coach GuGu began competitive age group swimming at the age of 10 in the Burma Swimming Federation in her hometown of Rngoon, Burma. In high school she was selected for the National Team for the South East Asian games, but the politics of the time prevented her from competing outside of the country. She continued competing at the Rangoon Arts and Science University where she obtained her BSc. Degree in Zoology (Ichthyology). Post University she competed professionally representing the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in inter-ministry competitions.

After moving to Saudi Arabia in 1997 she began coaching with the Dhahran Youth Swim League when her children joined the team. She coached the team for more 20 years. Besides coaching with the largest team (150-200 swimmers) in the Arabian Falcons Swimming Association, she was twice selected as the head coach for the Arabian Falcons travel team competing at the AAU Junior Olympics in the U.S. 2007 and 2008 and included qualifying swimmers from all of the AFSA teams in Saudi Arabia. Additionally, she taught the aquatics unit for the elementary and middle schools in Dhahran while also giving private lessons to children and adults, including triathletes. During her time with the DYSL team she worked closely with Dr. Rod Havriluk, a stroke technique consultant that the team would bring over a couple times a year to put on clinics for the kids and to help train coaches in the most efficient techniques based on his research. While with DYSL she trained and worked as a USA Swimming stroke and turn official, starter, and meet referee.

A few years after retiring to Colorado, she began coaching again at the beginning of 2022 with the Westminster Flippers swim team and started up an adult Masters program there a couple of months later. In February of 2024 she also began coaching with the Northglenn Fusion swim team. Her goal is to ensure that the young swimmers learn proper technique before they go on to swim large amounts of yards or to use Dr. Havriluk’s motto - “Fewer miles, faster times”