Life Time Michigan 

Our team is a year-round competitive USA Swimming team offering high quality, professional coaching and technique instruction for all ages and abilities. The goal of our team is to promote a lifetime of wellness through the sport of swimming in a safe and inclusive environment. 

Life Time - Canton

1700 Haggerty Rd

Canton, MI 48187

Coach Nick Rancilio [email protected]

 

Nick Rancillio

Head Swim Team Coach

Canton

Nick began his swimming career in 2006 at the age of 10 on his local summer team, the SCS Sea Serpents. He quickly grew to six feet tall as a sixth grader, which improved his athleticism and led to swimming success. He was proficient in the Backstroke and Freestyle events and fairly successful during my time in the Lakefront Swimming Association. Over the next years through high school, he continued to swim each summer and for local club teams here and there. At De La Salle Collegiate High School, he was recognized as the Freshman of the Year for the swim team in 2015, an All-American and All-State Academic honors, and set the school’s medley relay record in 2012. Unfortunately, Nick was diagnosed with mononucleosis in his junior year and felt burnt out with swimming. Although this halted his personal swimming career, it allowed him to view swimming from a different perspective: coaching.


Nick's first coaching job was with SCS from the summer of 2014 to 2016. SCS was always a smaller team, and the years taught him an important lesson in the sport of swimming: creating a competitive and enjoyable environment is the key to success. From 2017-2019 and 2021-2024, he coached two other teams in the league, GPW Warriors and GPS Sharks, and helped both teams achieve second place overall at the championship meet over those years. These second-place finishes were firsts for the GPS Sharks. Nick has coached various high school and middle school teams over the years as well. He has coached within USA Swimming since 2017 with the Grosse Pointe Gators and Lakers Aquatic Club. He has been a part of sending swimmers to the Junior Olympics/Regionals, State, Sectional, and National meets.

Nick would describe his coaching style as tough but fair, with open-minded, caring, and effective communication. When swimmers need to be pushed, he will push them. When swimmers need to be reeled in, he will reel them in. When swimmers need to be comforted, he will comfort them. When swimmers need to be acknowledged, he will acknowledge them. Each athlete has different needs in order for them to be successful. Not everyone’s path will be the same in both direction and velocity, but Nick will guide them towards what they and the team want to achieve.