Dr. Josh White

Director, Operations | Executive Head Coach

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Laura Cowley

Associate Coach

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Coach Laura began her swimming journey when her children showed interest in the sport in Severna Park, Maryland. At the neighborhood pool, all residents were allowed to participate. After a near drowning of her daughter in a neighbor’s backyard pool, she was determined to begin lessons and give her children the tools to be safe in water. The neighborhood team allowed her daughter to participate while wearing a life jacket. Both girls had fallen in love with the sport. After 9/11 the swimming continued in Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania where more structured swim technique was taught to her children. Onward to Marquette, Michigan where YMCA swim teams and swim instruction allowed her to teach, begin a new swim team, become head coach and dabble in officiating swimming. The Final move to Ann Arbor is where Coach Laura has been for the past 16 years. Her passion is creating great swim habits for future success for the 10 and under swimmer. Instilling great character values and daring the kids to embrace failure and to perceive it as a learning opportunity.

She has had the pleasure coaching State and Zone champions. Helped with numerous Sectional, Futures, Jr National swimmers. Inspired many to become D1 and D2 college swimmers. Even has a few past swimmers coaching WISC, HS, age group and college assistant coaches.

Coach Laura has been awarded for her dedication and outstanding achievements in the field of Swim Coaching from Michigan Swimming, ASCA and USA Swimming.

Josh Wood

Events Manager | Assistant Coach

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Joshua Wood has been a coach within USA Swimming since November 2010. Prior to joining Club Wolverine (CW) in August 2015, Josh coached with Lakes Area Tridents Swimming (Walled Lake, MI) from 2010-2015, working his way up from an Assistant Group Coach to Head Coach.

Currently, Josh is the Head Intermediate Coach & Lead Intermediate Blue Coach (AA). Since joining CW in 2015, he has served as Lead Intermediate Blue Coach (Brighton), Associate Head Site Coach (Brighton), Head Site Coach (Brighton), and Lead Senior Maize & White Coach (AA). During his coaching tenure, Josh has developed numerous State and Zone qualifiers, finalists, & champions; Sectional, Futures and NCSA qualifiers, and one Summer Speedo Junior National swimmer.

In addition to coaching USA Swimming, Josh has experience coaching Middle School swimming (2009) and High School Women’s Swimming (2013-2017). Josh also serves as Meet Director for the Club. In addition to coaching, Josh has served in the Michigan LSC in several capacities including: Zone Team Coach, Secretary and Chair of the Board of Review, Jr/Sr Coaches Representative, member of the Technical Planning Committee, Chair of the Championship Meet Strategy Committee, and as a Stroke/Turn Official.

Khadin Soto

Assistant Coach

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Katie Capelli 

Assistant Coach | Clinician

Katie has been coaching since 2018 and has been the Head Coach and Aquatics Director at The Chippewa Club since 2019. She swam for Club Wolverine for ten years before going on to swim for UC San Diego. Upon graduating in 2022 with a degree in Political Science, Katie moved back to Ann Arbor and began coaching for CW in 2023.

Joel Lauritzen

Assistant Coach

Joel has been around the pool for almost 30 years and just moved back to the Mitten in the Summer of 2023. Joel attended Lansing Everett High School and was a 4-year varsity swimmer/cross country runner serving as team captain his Senior year and was a 3-year captain of the CC team. Joel worked as a sportswriter specifically covering the sport of swimming, and at one point, wrote a monthly swimming column.

Before coming back to Michigan, Joel worked his way up to Interim Head Coach of the Terre Haute Torpedoes. Joel also served through the years as a Master's Coach and Lead Coach of the Blue and Orange Groups.

Joel is also a national level swim official and has been officiating all levels from age group to all levels of college swimming. Joel is married to an amazing wife and has four kids that all swam and/or are swimming (Nevaeh, Connor, Ty and Nolan).