Growing up in Petersburg, Indiana, Coach Keller was recruited by and attended Ball State University. A four year Mid-American Conference qualifier/finalist in the 100 and 200 Breaststroke, Coach Keller finished his college swimming career ranked on Ball State’s Top 10 All-Time list. He was honored during his sophomore year with the Most Improved Swimmer Award and the Senior Award, BSU’s highest swimming honor, his senior year. Academically, Coach Keller was a member of Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society, was named to the Dean’s list seven times, and received the swim team’s Top Scholar Athlete Academic Award his senior year. Coach Keller graduated from Ball State University in May 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Physical Education and a minor in U.S. History.

Upon graduating from Ball State, Coach Keller began working for Middlebury Community Schools at Northridge High School while also being named the head coach for Northridge Area Swimming Association (NASA). In the summer interim from college to work, he attended Indiana University at Pennsylvania (IUP) to increase his aquatics background.  At IUP, he received the following certifications: Water Safety Instructor, Lifeguard Instructor, CPR and First Aid Instructor, Pool Operator on Location License, and AAPHERD’s Aquatic Facility Management Certification. In May 2001, he completed his Master of Science degree in Education at Indiana University, South Bend.

Coach Keller served NASA and Northridge High School from July 1991 through June 2017 before accepting the Head Coach position with FAST and Fishers High School. At Northridge, Coach Keller taught aquatics and served as the Aquatic Director and Community Recreation/Facilities Rental Director alongside his coaching responsibilities. He also served as the Physical Education Department’s Chairperson. Coach has received numerous accolades and awards – both in and out of the pool. In 2008-2009, Coach Keller received the Achievement in Education Award for 2008-09 from the Optimist International service club. Among his coaching awards, he was named Conference and Sectional Coach of the Year multiple times; Central Zone Team Coach; Indiana Swimming Olympic Training Center and Senior Elite Camp Head Coach in 2005, 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2019; Ball State University Alumni Girls Swimming Coach of the Year in 2002, 2012, and 2013; Ball State University Alumni Boys Swimming Coach of the Year in 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2013; Indiana High School Boys State Coach of the Year in 2005; the Indiana Swimming Coaches Association Outstanding Senior Coach in 2003, 2005, and 2007, and the 2020 Jim Clark Memorial Award presented to an Indiana Swimming Coach who has shown a continued, active effort in the development of Indiana Swimmers and the programs that USA and Indiana Swimming provide. 

Coach Keller has coached numerous athletes up to and including the Olympic Trials Finalists (2008, 2012, 2016, 2021) including JoJo Ramey who recently earned a spot on the USA National Team.  Coach Keller demonstrated his diversity while coaching one Paralympic athlete to the World Championships in Mexico City in 2017.  Caleb Cripe, USA Paralympic National Team Member set American Records in the S7 Category Backstroke events while under Keller's guidance.  Coach Keller is a Level 4 certified ASCA coach and is currently working towards his Level 5 certification. In addition, he has served on the technical review and senior steering committees within Indiana Swimming’s structure and currently serves on Indiana Swimming's performance committee as the Senior Chair.

Coach Keller is married to Patti and they have three children: Philip, Kristopher, and Timothy.

Steve Sanchez began swimming competitively at the age of 8 for the Delta Waves under Craig Carson in Antioch, CA.  He also swam at CPH, which is now the Terrapins Swim Team, under Ray Mitchell. While a part of these programs, Steve was ranked nationally in the Top 16 and received numerous Pacific Swimming Swimmer of the Year awards.  Steve ended his competitive swimming career as a member of the Indiana University Men’s swim team. 

Steve coached age group swimming throughout his career and joined the FAST Tigers staff in 2009.  Since taking over the 10 & Under program at FAST, Steve has developed our youngest athletes into one of the best 10 & Under groups in the state. His swimmers continually rank Top 8 in the state and zone. Steve's hard work with the 10 & Unders was rewarded as he was voted Indiana Developmental Coach of the Year in 2014 & 2019.

Away from the pool, Steve lives in Fishers with his wife, Beth, and two sons, Jonah and Sam.

Garland grew up swimming in St. Louis, Missouri, for the Sugar Creek and Clayton Shaw Park swim clubs. From 1986 - 1988, she was a member of the US National Team. In 1987, Garland competed in the 1987 Pan Pacific Games and placed 2nd to Janet Evans in the 400 IM.  She was an Olympic Trial Finalist in 1988 finishing 5th in the 400 IM. Swimming first at the University of Texas, Garland was a member of their 1990 NCAA Championship team. Transferring to Indiana University, Garland was a Big Ten finalist, 200 Back School Record holder, and Team Co-Captain from 1992 - 1994.

Garland then began coaching collegiate swimmers at both Eastern Michigan and Villanova University. She then moved on to St Bonaventure University as their Head Coach. During this time, she guided St. Bonaventure to the 1998 Atlantic 10 Championship title. Then, in 1999, Garland took an Assistant Coaching position at the University of Iowa. The next year, she was promoted to Head Coach of the women's team and served in that role for 4 years. During Garland's time leading the Iowa's female swimmers, the team broke 27 school records, had 6 All-Americans, 6 NCAA Qualifiers, 3 NCAA finalists, 1 Big Ten champion, and the 2003-2004 team placed 20th in the nation!

Garland joined the FAST coaching staff in 2012 and coaches both the Elite / High School swimmers and other age groups as needed.  Garland is the lead coach for the FAST CAPP (College Assisted Planning Program). In addition she oversees the FAST Tigers Swim Lessons and Pre-Team programs.  She also coaches with Summer Break Swim in the summer and regularly  teaches adult swim clinics at the Fishers YMCA.

Away from the pool(s), Garland lives in Fishers with her husband, Jay, and four children, Bailey, Austin, Mia, and Delaney - and their dogs Molly and Nestle.

Kris started swimming competitively full-time his freshman year at Northridge High School and NASA for Coach Keller after being a multi-sport athlete in soccer and baseball growing up. Improving at a high level Kris swam on the 200 medley relay at the High School State Meet his senior year placing tenth in 2017. After his senior year Kris signed to swim at Anderson University where he would have a very successful four years. Kris currently holds two school records in the 400 IM and 400 Free Relay. Kris graduated from Anderson in 2021 with a degree in Sports Marketing. 

Kris was the Intern for Indiana Swimming, and loves anything business and sports. Kris has enjoyed his time at FAST so far and has found his love for the sport again.

I was born and raised in Muncie, IN and began teaching lessons and coaching while in High School. After moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I coached at Palmyra Aquatic Club where I introduced the team to USA Swimming. In the six years that I coached there, we had Junior Olympic, Zone, and Sectional Qualifiers. From 2005-2015, I coached at the highly decorated Hershey Aquatic Club where I was the Head Developmental Coach and worked with athletes of all ages and abilities. I also coached Zones for 6 years while being a Middle Atlantic Coach.  Moving to  Maryland in 2015 , I started coaching at the Nationally ranked Machine Aquatic Club. While there  from 2015-2019 , I coached the Age Group and Senior level athletes at the University of Maryland. Summer league swimming is important in the Washington area, so I took a role as the Swim Director/Head Coach of BBT swim team in Bowie from 2015-2018.  We moved to Indiana in 2019 and I coached age group and High School at Zionsville Swim Club and Zionsville High school from 2019-2022.   Having coached all levels, from beginners to nationally ranked swimmers, I am excited to further my coaching experience with  FAST . I have three daughters, ages 28, 24, and 19.

Brett grew up in Sarasota, Florida, where he swam for the Sarasota Sharks and Riverview High School. Coached by Brent Arckey, Brett helped his high school men’s team to 4 years of Florida 4a state championship wins, earned the 200 breaststroke LCM and SCY team records, and competed as the breaststroke leg of a YMCA national record-holding 400 medley relay. He went on to swim at Purdue University under Dan Ross, where he studied Environmental Geoscience. As a Boilermaker, Brett primarily swam the 200/400 IM, 200 backstroke, 200 breaststroke. From 2020-2022, he scored in all 3 of his events at the Big Ten Championships. Notably, Brett placed 6th in the 400 IM and was awarded the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award for Purdue to end his career. Brett was introduced to FAST by his girlfriend, Lizzy Pfeifer, who swam for FAST until 2017.  He enjoys spending his free time exploring Indianapolis, showing off his geography skills, and staying active outdoors.

Coach Tamisa is beginning her fourth year as a member of the FAST coaching staff.  She grew up swimming competitively, along with her two brothers.  A proud member of the Yorktown Tigers high school team, she also swam year-round with the YMCA and Nassau summer club, starting at the ripe old age of 5!  Tamisa is a retired Carmel Clay teacher, along with a long time member of the Carmel Swim Club coaching staff.  During her Carmel career, she worked with multiple levels, ranging from developmental to assisting with the high school/senior program.  Over the 20 years at Carmel, her swimmers earned multiple age group high point honors, National Top 16 rankings, and Indiana high school championships.  After a coaching hiatus, she returned to the Fishers' pool, working with the age group program.  When out of the water, she loves spending time with her husband (Russ), son (Brett), and the multiple family pets.  You can find her outdoors on a boat, golf course, or hanging out with friends!

Coach Ralph swam for the OB Aquatic Club, Connersville High School, and University of Missouri-Rolla. Ralph placed in numerous statewide championships competitions and competed in the YMCA National Swim Meet as an age group and high school swimmer. Named a two-year captain of the Connersville High School swim team, his team consistently placed in the Top 20 in the state.  Ralph was also a two-year captain at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Those teams placed in the Top 15 nationally at the NCAA Division II level. Ralph has helped numerous athletes compete at the Indiana Age Group State Championships and one nationally ranked age group swimmer during three summers as head coach of the Connersville OB Aquatic Club. Ralph has been coaching with FAST since 2006.

Tyler kicked off his swimming career in 2011 under the tutelage of Alec Haley and Jay Chambers at FAST. Quickly falling in love with the sport he served on the club for six years and the Fishers High School varsity team for four years. He went on to swim for Wabash College under Brent Noble and Will Burnthart and finished with a physics degree.

Tyler returned to FAST in 2021 excited to learn and grow as a coach from the incredible staff and young athletes.

Coach Ellen’s hometown is Fishers, IN and she began swimming competitively at 8 years old for FAST. She swam for Fishers High School and is featured in the FHS Hall of Fame 8 times. Ellen received the FHS Swim and Dive ‘Tiger Tough’ Award her junior year, and the FHS Swim and Dive Sportsmanship Award at the conclusion of her senior year. She held the school record in the 200 Freestyle Relay from 2017 to 2022 on two different relay teams. Ellen swam for 10 years with FAST (under Head Coaches Jay Chambers and Joe Keller) until she began her collegiate career at Indiana State University in 2020. Ellen is currently enrolled at Ivy Tech and is pursuing a part-time career in coaching. 

Eric has developed a system over the last 12 years that has created some of the top swim athletes in the country. He has been in the fitness industry for 16 years, and his professional journey in fitness started in college where he majored in Exercise Science at Purdue University. Upon graduation, he worked as the head strength and conditioning coach of a club swim team near St. Louis. After spending three years on the pool deck as the dryland coach, he continued to work with high school swim athletes, while at the same time taking on new experiences that ranged from being the personal training manager in a multi-billion dollar fitness company, to working as the general manager and lead coach of a boutique group training gym. Through all of these experiences, his passion for working with and impacting competitive swimmers became more and more obvious to him. After three more years rounding out his knowledge of biomechanics and swim-specific performance training, he knew it was time to follow his heart and start focusing solely on dryland training. He felt the need for professionally designed swim-specific dryland training in the club swimming world, and wanted to create something that no other program could rival.

This is his passion and expertise, and with the sole focus being on SwimStrong Dryland, he continues to fine tune his skills and hunger to deliver the best world-class dryland program on the market.His 12 years of swim-specific experience uniquely positions him to help athletes reach goals they once thought impossible. Each dream achieved has made him dream bigger, reach higher, and desire to perfect his craft for the sake of the athletes and their families. He believes that dryland training should focus on more than just the body to get consistent results—the mind and heart must be strengthened as well. This belief led him to further his education and he received his Master’s Degree in Sports Psychology from Capella University. Inspiring young athletes to be not only phenomenal in the water, but phenomenal in their homes, schools, and communities is his passion. He wants to see the next generation positively impact the world and redefine the word “impossible”.

Eric lives in Miami, where he treasures spending time with his beautiful wife, Julia. In addition to SwimStrong Dryland, he enjoys traveling, hiking, sports, working out, reading, and watching great movies. He also enjoys visiting and spending time with his family members from the Midwest.

Credentials:

• Master of Science in Sport Psychology – Capella University

• Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science – Purdue University

• Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist – National Strength & Conditioning Association

• Functional Movement Systems (FMS)

• CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting

• National Academy of Sports Medicine (Resistance Training Blocks, Treadmill Interval Training, Indoor Rowing)