Life Time Michigan Senior Head Coach: Michael Kavanaugh ([email protected])
Aquatics Leader:  Jim Hinkson ([email protected])

Mike has been coaching for over 20 years, spending time between Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois coaching swimmers from novices to Olympic Trials and everywhere in-between.

Mike currently holds a Master's Degree in Applied Exercise Science from Concordia University - Chicago and holds a Bachelor's Degree from UW-Oshkosh. Mike started sharing his passion for Coaching in 2003.

While attending UW-Oshkosh, Mike coached at the Fox Cities YMCA. Upon graduating, Mike relocated with his wife to Chicago and joined Mundelein Mustang Swim Club as an Assistant Coach working his way up to Head Age Group Coach. Next, as a Head Coach in 2012 with the Beloit Aquatic Team, he produced their first National Level swimmer in over 20 years! Mike spent 3 years with the Woodstock Dolphins. While at Woodstock, he guided the program to produce its first Senior State Medalist, its first Speedo Sectional Qualifiers, and its first swimmers at NASA Jr National Cup!! Mike also produced many Age Group State Qualifiers, Zone Qualifiers, and rewrote the majority of the club’s swimming records. Most recently, Mike spent the last four and a half years as the Head Coach for AQUA Club. While at AQUA, he oversaw growth in the program and guided the program to consistently producing qualifying swimmers to State, Zone, Sectional, Futures, and above. Numerous swimming records were established at AQUA.

As a Coach, Mike is 100% committed to helping every swimmer on the team achieve their dream in swimming. Whether that is just getting better strokes and having fun or training to be on the podium at the Olympic Games. Coach Mike makes sure every Life Time Teammate feels welcome to our Lifetime swimming Family. 

Fun Fact: Mike has a small obsession for Star Wars. Mike loves to spend time with his wife Rachel, daughter Isabelle, and his Black Lab Charlie :)

Head Site Coach:  James LaTour ([email protected])
Aquatics Leader:  Christian Rassey ([email protected])

James was born and raised here in the suburbs of Detroit. I have played nearly every sport from Lacrosse to Rugby to Water Polo. Though the Sport that captured my rapt attention and zeal has been Swimming, it is a sport with few being similar, as a Swimmer learns & performs within a different medium than nearly all other sports. 

Head Site Coach:  Johnathan Sivits ([email protected])
Aquatics Leader :  Heather Lacina ([email protected])

Coach John has been swimming since 2011. He had grown up in Florida and had competed with multiple club teams and high school teams as well. These include Seminole Aquatics and Spruce Creek High school. He is an alumni of the same high school, olympian and gold medalist, Ryan Lochte had graduated from. 

Coach John currently holds a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and Bachelor of Arts in Music (concentration in piano performance and pedagogy) from Rollins College in Winter Park , FL. He has been with LifeTime teaching swim lessons since 2022, and has been teaching private music lessons since 2020. 

During his undergraduate education, his main areas of study were with cognition, relationship with others, and pedagogical strategies. His main focus in coaching is how one can retain information by making it personal to the individual. His most important idea is how to have fun, but also be challenged to strive to be better. He makes every encounter with the swimmers a very personal experience by trying to really understand what they enjoy and how they function.