Shreveport Coaching Staff
Tyler Lloyd
Site Head Coach
Age Group - Senior
Tyler Lloyd joined The Bulldog Aquatic Club as Head Coach of the Shreveport Location in November of 2023. Tyler is a member of ASCA and has been involved with coaching since he was 15 years old beginning with Summer League teams in East Texas. He created a learn to swim program at Taylor Carden School for Kindergarten through 4th grade when he was 17. He has been the Head Coach for the Tyler, Texas YMCA and Assistant Swim Team Director for the Shreveport YMCA along with many years of water safety and swim instruction. Tyler was a swimmer as a Summer League Contender, a middle school and High School athlete along with swimming for his Home town USA Swimming Club. He has a blended family consisting of his sweetheart, 3 boys and 2 girls. Tyler has a love for all sports including Triathlons, Running, Cycling, Rugby, and Soccer. He likes to play Disc Golf and hang out with his kids.
Mandy Smith
Age Group Coach
Louisiana Safesport Coordinator
Mandy joined the BAC staff Nov 2023 and works with the dog paddlers, pool pups and juniors. Mandy grew up swimming competitively and teaching swim lessons in the summers. She went on to swim collegiately at the University of Arkansas, serving as Team Captain her Jr. and Sr. years. She graduated with a degree in Dietetics and is a Registered Dietitian.
After a break from swimming, Mandy re-entered the swimming family as her 2 children began to swim. She began coaching for the City of Shreveport Swim Team in 2018 helping coach the 10-U’s.
Mandy comes from a family deep rooted in swimming. Her grandfather started competitive swimming in Shreveport in 1949, built Southside Swim Club in Shreveport and founded the City of Shreveport Swim Team (COSST). Mandy’s father, Butch swam for Southern Arkansas University, then took over COSST as head coach in 1975. He has also been the head coach of Centenary Men’s and Women’s Swim team since its inception in 2001. Her bother, Ty, swam for Ouachita Baptist University. Both her father and grandfather have been prominent in Louisiana swimming for decades.
Outside of swimming, Mandy owns her own business and she enjoys, running, podcasts, amusement parks and is a total homebody. Mandy and her husband, Justin, have 2 kids, Ruby Belle, who swims for BAC, and Beckett.
Mandy also serves as an At-Large Board Member and Safe Sport Coordinator with Louisiana Swimming.
Billy Cloutet
Junior & Senior Coach
Billy is a Junior and Senior group coach for the Shreveport BAC satellite location. Prior to coaching for BAC, Billy had several different aquatic related roles across the state. Locally he served as an assistant coach for COSST during their final year of operation and then became a coach for the YMCA after the merger from 2019 to 2023. Before arriving in Shreveport, Billy had 3 coaching roles in Monroe as an assistant coach for Indian Aquatic Club, Monroe Special Olympics, and as a student coach for ULM. Billy enjoys sharing his enthusiasm for the sport and being a part of building interest and stability within programs. He has been the head coach for Terri’s Swim Academy summer league swim team since 2016 which started off as a team of only 16 swimmers. Since then, the program has grown to a full squad. As a high school student Billy had to start his own team and was the only swimmer on the team as a freshman but the team continued to grow and has been in place since then. During the summers while in high school and his first couple of years of college, Billy was entrusted with taking over as head coach of the Lakeside Gators in Slidell, La. During this time period, the team grew from 30 swimmers to over 120 swimmers.
His swimming experience included swimming at the summer league, USA Swimming year round, and collegiate levels. Billy and his siblings- Chris (swam for LSU) and Cassie (swam for Centenary) started swimming together as a family competitively at their neighborhood pool for the Lakeside Gators at an early age with water safety as the primary goal. This grew into the love for a life-long sport and skill. Billy and his siblings swam year-round for Hurricane Swim Club in Slidell. During his USA swimming career, Billy won events at the state level, set several team records, and achieved several nationally ranked times as an age-group swimmer including a #1 national ranking as a relay team member. In college Billy was a 4-year letterman as a swimmer for ULM and developed a 6-dive list on the side and was able to compete as a diver in 3 of his college meets.
Outside of swimming, Billy teaches middle school Robotics and is an elementary STEM and Discoveries teacher. Billy and his wife Jennifer met in college after she volunteered as a timer for his lane during a swim meet in Monroe. Billy and Jennifer have 2 kids- Drew who swims for BAC and his younger brother Michael.
Taylor McDonald
Age Group Coach
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Averey Sewell
Age Group Coach
