Kristen Reynolds has been a USA swim coach since 2013.  Kristen started coaching with Lake Erie's USA swim team, Piranha Aquatics, as an assistant coach.  She later became the lead competitive age group coach.  In 2018, Kristen became the head coach of Piranha Aquatics. She is currently the OHSAA head High School swim coach for Springfield, Southeast, Jackson Milton, West Branch, and Mooney.  During her coaching career, she has coached swimmers to Lake Erie champoinship titles, USA central zone qualifiers, High School state qualifiers, NCSA Age Group National qualifiers, as well as coached swimmers who earned qualifying times and competed at the USA National Sectional level. In 2021 Coach Kristen was named Lake Erie Swimming Age Group Coach of the Year. Reynolds is a former YMCA Zone and National qualifier, High School District Qualifier, 4-year letter winner, and 2-year varsity team captain in swimming from Perry High School.  Kristen went on to swim at the collegiate level for Mount Union College.  She got her start coaching as a volunteer junior coach for the Perry Barracuda's age-group swimming.  When not on the pool deck, Kristen enjoys spending time with her family and friends.  Kristen as two daughters that both love swimming, Addison and Ashlynn, and a very supportive husband, Adam, all of who keep her very busy.

Kennedy is a first year assistant coach here at Piranhas. She first started swimming at Piranhas in 2011 as a competitive swimmer. She is a three year letter winner in swimming for Western Reserve. Kennedy is looking forward to this exciting opportunity to be able to do what she loves in a new way and impact athletes' swim journeys.

Susan Nutter has been a competitive swim coach since 1994 first volunteering for the summer Youngstown Swim League team, FAST (Firestone Area Swim Team); then acting as an assistant coach and later, co-head coach, until retiring from that position in 2015. Nutter was the head coach of the Youngstown YMCA/USA Neptune Swim Team from 2003 until 2016 with the team earning many Northeast Ohio YMCA Divisional Championships, qualifying numerous swimmers to compete in the Great Lake Zone Championships, as well as coaching several swimmers who earned qualifying times and competed at YMCA Short Course Nationals. She stepped away from the Neptunes after the 2015/2016 season to focus on her family’s needs. Nutter has been involved with the Salem Community Center since its opening, hosting competitive swim clinics, giving private lessons, and also helping Barb Clary with Swim Salem; an adult swim program that also supports those interested in doing United States Masters Swimming. Nutter has been a USA swim coach for the past 15 years and is an ASCA Level 2 coach. When not on deck, Nutter is a professional freelance writer whose main focus is research and writing about antiques. She is also beekeeper currently maintaining 12 hives, and she and her husband, Scott, also tap the maple trees on their 65 acre tree farm making maple syrup each spring. Nutter has two sons who swam competitively through high school; Tim, who is a Physician Assistant for Mount Carmel in Grove City, Ohio; and Chris, a CPA, who is a State and Local Tax Manager for Grant Thornton in Cleveland.