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St Charles Swim Team Staff
St Charles Aquatics Executive Director / Co Head Coach / Senior Team Lead Coach
Tim Lewarchick is currently a Co-Head Coach for the St. Charles Swim Team, where he has been coaching with SCST since 2006, leading the senior team. Tim has coaching experience at the collegiate and high school levels that spans more than 25 years and includes coaching an Olympic Athlete, 2 Olympic Trial finalist; Bronze Medalist in the Pan American Games; numerous Olympic trial qualifiers; National Age Group record holders; as well as Sectional, Junior National, and Senior National level swimmers. Before relocating to Saint Charles in 2006 Tim served as Head Coach for Sheridan Swim team in Quincy, Illinois where he produced 9 High School All-Americans. Between the years of 1990 – 2002, Tim was the Head Coach of FAST (Firestone Akron Swim Team). During the years of 1991-2002, Tim also served as the Head Coach of Firestone High School Men’s and Women’s Team, where he produced 72 High School All-Americans and 5 Top 5 nationally ranked teams. He was awarded the “Ohio State Coach of the Year”. He was also recognized as the “Lake Erie Coach of the Year” during his tenure in Ohio, he has inducted into the Ohio High School Coaches Hall of Fame in 2016.
Co Head Coach / Age Group Team Lead Coach / Age Group 4 Lead Coach / Age Group 2 Lead Coach
Jon Cabel first came to the St Charles Swim Team as a swimmer, then an Age Group Coach and in 2000 he became Head Coach till 2007 when he became Co Head Coach with Tim Lewarchick. Jon’s coaching career began with the St Charles Swim Team in 1994 when he coached a variety of groups within the St Charles Swim Team. In 1996 Jon became an assistant coach with the New Wave Swim Team in Raleigh North Carolina where he continued his coaching with age group swimmers. Jon became the Head Coach of the Homewood Flossmoor Swim Club in 1998.
As an athlete Coach Cabel first discovered competitive swimming with a local club in southern Indiana the Linton Stingrays. Swimming with different clubs in Indiana; Vincennes YMCA, Bloomington Gators and Donner Swim Club lead him to swim for his brother Joe Cabel at Columbus North High School. Jon then swam in college at Eastern Michigan University under Coach Peter Linn. During the summers of his college career is when Coach Cabel swam for the St Charles Swim Team.
Since 2000 Coach Cabel has help the SCST grow from a 150 swimmer team to a club that has over 440 swimmers participate yearly. During his time with the Team Jon has coached SCST State Champions, State Record Holders, National Top 16 Swimmers, Junior National, Senior National and Olympic Trial Qualifiers. While at SCST Coach Cabel has worked with four Team Illinois’ Zones Staffs and Head Coach twice. Jon was recognized as Illinois Swimming Age Group Coach of the Year, he has also served as Illinois Swimming Age Group Vice Chair for Illinois Swimming.
Coach Cabel is married to former SCST Swimmer and Coach Holly Earls Cabel, they have 3 boys Austin, Ben and Charlie Joe. When Coach Cabel is not at the pool or with his family he enjoys fishing, music and working around the house.
Age Group 1 Lead Coach
Laurie has been involved in swimming since age 10. She competed for Southeast Delco YMCA in Chester, PA, and Archbishop Prendegast High School in Drexel Hill, PA until she graduated High School. While she did not compete at Penn State, she was a regular in the lap lanes during open swim. Her coaching career began in 1999, when her children began swimming competitively. She coached at the Southern Chester County YMCA, and was the Head Men's Swim Coach at Avon Grove High School in Chester County, PA 1999-2000. When her family was relocated to Illinois in fall of 2000, she joined the SCST coaching staff as lead 8 & Under coach. Her 4 children all proudly came up through the SCST program. They swam at very different levels. However, they all love the sport the same.... even today (as proud SCST Alumni). The thing that Laurie loves most about swimmming is that there is a place for EVERYONE in the sport. She considers it a privledge to be able to watch all the athletes blossom into strong, confident young adults who also love the sport.
Age Group 3 Lead Coach
Coach Jim was born and raised in Bulgaria- Europe. He started swimming at the age of nine, since the city he was born in was located at the Black Sea Riviera. In 1972 Coach Nickolov graduated from the sporting school called “Olympic Hopes”, located in Sofia – Bulgaria. Since the age 14 years old he was a member of the Bulgarian National Swim Team. In 1975 he graduated from a special college, a college for coaching swimming. Jim re-located to the United States in 1978. From 1983 to 1989 he was the Head Coach of Merrillville High school in Indiana, coaching varsity boys and girls. During the same period of time he was also a head coach of the Merrillville Aquatic Club in Indiana, where he coached numerous nationally ranked swimmers. In 1985 he was honored with the Indiana High School Coach of the Year Award. From 1989 through 1992 he was the Head Coach of Munster Swim Club. During the years from 1994-2000 he was the Head Coach of the Hanover Park Sailfish swim team. From 2001 – 2012, he was the co-head coach of the Bartlett Electrix Swim Team. Coach Jim; Loves to Coach, Coaching is his Life, Coaching is what he does.
Administrative Assistant Coach
Brian Englert
Assistant Coach
Jim Fitzmaurice
Age Group 2 Silver
Age Group 1 / Age Group 3 Silver
Assistant Coach
Senior Coach / Age Group 3 Silver
Rob Rooney
Assistant Coach
Robert Rooney is the Head Men’s and Women’s Head Swimming and Diving Coach at St. Charles North High School and is the Assistant Senior Coach for St. Charles Swim Team.
Robert started swimming for St. Charles Swim Team in 1976 and Swam for the St. Charles High School Teams until 1986. He attended Western Illinois University as a student – athlete for one year before transferring to Clemson University. At Clemson he was a student – athlete until his Junior year then he severed as a student manager for the Athletic Department. Robert graduated from Clemson with a degree in Economics and Political Science. He worked in Chicago at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1992 – 1996. During that time, he obtained a degree in Education at Northern Illinois. Robert has a master’s in Educational Administration from Aurora University and is currently a Physical Education Teacher and Aquatic Director at St. Charles North High School.
Robert Started Coaching for the St. Charles Swim Team in 1993 as an Age Group Coach and Assistant High School Coach for St. Charles High School. In 1997 he became the Head Girls Coach at Waubonsie Valley High School and coached The Fox Valley Swim Team in Naperville. In 2000 Robert came back to St. Charles as a teacher and swim coach for St. Charles North High School and the St. Charles Swim Team.
Robert has two children and a wife that live in St. Charles and have attended St. Charles East High School. Riley and Reese are former swimmers and play currently play Lacrosse. Riley is a student – athlete at Illinois Wesleyan and Reese is a student – athlete at St. Charles East High School.
Age Group 2 Silver
Amanda Stiberth
Age Group 4
Amanda has been involved with swimming for most of her life. She started swimming competitively when she was 9 for the Warren, Ohio YWCA in the winter season and the Warren Elks Club team in the summer. She swam with these teams into her high school years. She qualified for YWCA Nationals in 8th, 9th, and 10th grade.
She was the head coach at Trumbull Country Club in Warren, Ohio after her freshman and sophomore years at Bowling Green State University. She has been the parent in charge of her neighborhood swim team, The Windings Waves, for 16 summers and started their motto “Windings Waves, We have FUN!” She was an assistant coach at Kishwaukee YMCA swim team from 2008-2016. She has been with SCST for 2 years and assists Coach Jon with Age Group Performance.
Amanda has her undergraduate degree from BGSU in elementary education and her master's degree from The Ohio State University in training and development. Upon graduating from OSU, she received an internship at Arthur Andersen's world headquarters training center in St. Charles. After completing her internship, the summer of 1989, she was hired full time as an instructional designer. She has been in the St. Charles area ever since.
Amanda and her husband, Tommy, have 2 daughters. Cailey is 24 and graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and currently lives and works in LA. Grace is a junior at Hobart William Smith College in Geneva, NY.
Amanda's passion is swimming. She has been a master’s swimmer for 17 years. She competes in meets regularly including Master’s State and swam at Masters' Nationals (2013 & 2018) when they were held at IUPUI. She is also an avid crossfitter, runner, and cyclist and loves to cook and bake.
