Owner & Head Coach: Carrie Purdy

Education

  • BS Sports & Exercise Science, Minor in Strength & Conditioning- University of Akron

  • AAS Physical Therapy Assistant- Daytona State University

  • MS (incomplete) Health Administration

  • Division I NCAA Athlete Swimmer at University of Akron- Denianne Bland Senior Award. Academic All-American

Coaching

  • Assistant Coach- Western Reserve Seariders, Kent Ohio

  • Lake Erie Zone Assistant Coach- Northeast Ohio

  • Student Coach- University of Akron

  • Stanford University Richard Quick, Skip Kenney-Camp Coach, California

  • Graduate Assistant Coach- University of Hawaii, Monoa, Hawaii

  • Assistant Coach- Daytona Beach Speed

  • Head Coach-Seabreeze High School

  • Head Coach- Matanzas High School

 

Assistant Coach: Heidi Gerkin

Swim Lesson Coordinator

 Coach Heidi has a background in young swimmer development and stroke instruction. Before relocating full-time to  Palm Coast, she was the Developmental Coach for the Shreveport Elks Swim Team and worked for the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, where she was the Swim Lessons Program Coordinator and a swim instructor for infant, age group, and adult swim lessons. 

 

Coach Heidi was active in aquatics as a child and began teaching swim lessons as a teenager. She re-entered the swimming community after a career as a television news anchor, where she found herself frequently covering drowning tragedies. With the goal of creating change and bringing aquatic instruction to under-served communities, she became involved with a partnership between the YMCA and Caddo Parish (Louisiana) Schools called “Swim for Life”. As a “Swim for Life” instructor, Heidi was instrumental in bringing life-saving aquatic instruction and water-safety skills to more than 3,000 second grade students in the district each school year. 

 

In addition to age group coaching, Coach Heidi is a certified USA Swimming Official.

 

Assistant Coach: Quinn Anderson

Coach Quinn passion for swimming began in highschool. Where he was labeled as team captain, however, that did not stop there. Quinn enlisted into the United States Marine Corps. He did lessons and taught Marines how to swim. While serving Quinn attended a course called MCIWS course (Marine Corps instructor of water survival). Which consisted of a 3 week course of learning how to rescue victims, administer emergency first aid, and how to further identify weak swimmers and how to correct them. This course has a 50% fail rate. For every 1200 Marines, there are usually 4 of these Instructors. Quinn used these skills and taught plenty of Marines how to properly survive shipwreck scenarios, and how to survival swimming in open water environments

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Assistant Coach - Matt Araujo

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Assistant Coach - Mark Schoenfelder

COACHING:

1988-93 Plantations II Swim Team (MCSL), Damascus, MD - Head Coach

1994-2002 Kentlands Swim Team (MCSL), N. Potomac, MD - Head Coach 

1992-2002 TITAN Swimming (PVS), Gaithersburg, MD  - Head Coach

2002 -2011 Curl-Burke Swim Club (PVS) , Damascus, MD  - Head Age Group Coach 

2012 -2020 Stroke Mechanics , Mount Airy, MD - Owner/Coach

2013-2018 Monocacy Aquatic Club , Frederick, MD - Age Group Coach

EDUCATION: 

Mt. Hebron High School ’77 Ellicott City, MD 

Longwood College ’82 Farmville, VA 

American Swim Coaches Assn. Level 3 Coach ’93, Lifetime Member, Ft. Lauderdale, FL