Savannah has been around the pool since she was very young as her mom and both of her sisters swam. She started competitive swimming when she was 6 years old. She grew up in Western New York swimming for Victor Swim Club until she went to college at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. She was an accomplished NCAA Division III swimmer, earning 7 All- American honors, including 4 times in the 400 IM. Savannah secured multiple top-16 finishes at NCAA D-III Championships, highlighted by a fourth place finish in the 400 IM in 2023. Savannah was a captain her senior year at Denison and helped lead her team in winning NCAA’s for the second time ever in program history. Savannah obtained her bachelor's degree in Health, Exercise, and Sports Studies and is currently at Moravian University studying to obtain her masters in Occupational Therapy. 

Coach Steve returned to PAAC in February 2015, to coach both the Bronze group and the STARS group. He immediately re-established goals for both groups, and expectations were far exceeded by season’s end.

His first tenure at PAAC lasted from April, 2005 to June, 2010. During that time, he coached many Middle Atlantic Junior Olympic and Elite Meet qualifiers, including some champions. Steve had one swimmer attain TOP 16 status. Steve has also coached adults over the years as he guided the Westend Racquet Club Masters swimmers from November, 1994 until September, 2013. He competed in Masters swim meets as well, starting in 1992 until he retired in 2007.

As a child, Steve competed in club swimming while growing up in Springfield (Delaware County) PA, starting at age 7 until he graduated high school. He swam first for the Community YMCA in Upper Darby, PA then for the Suburban Swim Club in Marple-Newtown, PA. Steve’s passion for swimming goes beyond the pool as he served as Committee Chairman for the Delaware Valley Masters Swim Committee from September, 2002 until September 2006. He also served as Westend Masters Swim Meet Director from 1993 to 1997.

Professionally, Steve has been is sales and sales management since graduating Lehigh University in 1980. He is married, with 2 children (twin daughters) and 2 grandchildren.

Daniel is a long-time member of PAAC now turned coach. He primarily assists the Bronze group but can be seen helping out with other groups as well.

He started swimming with PAAC at a young age and graduated from Whitehall High School in 2019 and the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2023 with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. Daniel was a multi-year medalist at the District XI AAA Champs and held multiple school records at Whitehall, as well as swimming at a Division I level in college all 4 years. He was also the head coach of Whitehall Waves Aquatic Club, a summer league team and member of the Suburban Swim League.

Daniel enjoys coaching kids of all ages and levels and will always happily give you any tips to improve your swimming. Outside of the pool, Daniel is a design engineer at EMD Electronics.

This is coach Katie’s third year with PAAC. Katie currently serves as the head coach on the Southern Lehigh Varsity Swim Team. She is a 2010 Southern Lehigh High School Graduate and Southern Lehigh High School Varsity Swim Team Alumni. She has also coached at EMAC, taught swim lessons at Swim-in Zone, and is currently the head summer swim coach for SOLECO Stingrays. Katie has her Bachelor’s degree from Penn State and Master's degree from Lehigh University. She is currently an Elementary School Teacher in the Southern Lehigh School district.

Cody has been around the pool his entire life. He started lessons at Emmaus Aquatic Club at the age of four and then went on to train and compete for the club throughout college.  He competed for Emmaus High School where he was fortunate enough to learn how important teamwork and hard work were to being on a successful team.  He continued swimming in college at Seton Hall University where he was Co-Captain for his Junior and Senior year, leading the team to their first two Big East Championships.  Cody believes that the mental aspect of the sport is the key to a successful, happy swimmer and is excited to work with young athletes at developing the skills needed to be successful both in and out of the pool.  Cody tries to emphasize the importance of improvement and strategy in races and believes that "progress over perfection" is the way to motivate young athletes.  Outside of swimming, Cody currently works for a medical device company's data analytics department focusing on Data Visualization. He is also pursuing his MBA from Moravian College.

Coach Mike is no stranger to the pool, having been around competitive swimming for many years. Whether it be club, high school, or college level swimming, the sport has been a constant in his life and he is thrilled to continue that growth with PAAC. His experience has allowed him to acquire a unique perspective on training and approach to the sport.

As an age group athlete, Coach Mike embraced swimming and set several local records in his hometown area of Reading. After suffering a leg injury in high school, Coach Mike turned to swimming as a means of recovery and therapy both physically and mentally. After competing at the collegiate level at Albright College, he was a top performer on the men’s team, winning four consecutive Men’s MAC Conference Team Championships from 2002 thru 2006.

Most recently, Coach Mike’s resume has included Head Age Group Coach for EMAC as well as assisting the Emmaus High School Team to many District Championships. For the past two years, Coach Mike has coached in his home district of Southern Lehigh, by assisting the High School team and SOLECO team. His philosophy for age group swimming has been to, first and foremost, engage the young athlete through structured enjoyment before mastering an exponential disciplined edge. His greatest enjoyment is seeing the athletes grow, flourish and take the discipline of this sport to college, career, and life.

Coach Mike enjoys leading a life of health and fitness as well as spending time with his wife, Jackie, and their two young sons, Jack and Joey.

Coach Jonny has been around a pool his whole life. He started out attending his sister's swim meets when he was just a year old. He started swimming when he turned 4 for NPAC and the Lansdale swim team. In high school Jonny swam varsity for North Penn all four years. His favorite and best event was the 500 Freestyle, which he swam at every high school swim meet.

At the end of high school Coach Jonny started coaching at Manufacturers Golf and Country Club in Fort Washington. After 9 years of coaching there he became the head swim coach for his old summer swim team in Lansdale,which he did for 2 years. Now that Jonny lives in Coopersburg, he wanted to find a coaching position closer to home and found PAAC through his encounters with Coach Katie. Jonny works at Hopewell Elementary and is a volunteer coach for the Southern Lehigh Swim Team as well.

Jonny currently works with a lot of the different groups (Seahorse, STARS, Bronze, and Silver) and looks forward to seeing all of the swimmers learning and improving.

Coach Megan is an assistant coach for the Bronze group.  She is excited to be back in the swimming world, helping our 9-13 year olds take their talent and skill to the next level. 

Megan began swimming as an 8-under for her summer league team in New Mexico. She made the varsity high school team and joined USA Swimming her freshman year of high school.  She had a successful high school career with state records in 200 medley and 200 free relays, and 3rd place finishes in the 50 and 100 Free at States.  She was named team MVP her freshman year and lead her team to the State Championship as team captain her junior and senior years.  She was recently nominated for her high school Athletic Hall of Fame.