In April of 2023, Coach Bob returned to the Patriot Swim Team to serve as the Director of the Patrot Swim Team and Senior Group Coach after the passing of Coach Marc Rizzo.  

Coach Bob was Head Coach and Director from Sept 2003 until his retirement in April of 2022 after 42 years in coaching. 

He started his coaching career in 1978 as a student Volunteer for the De Witt Clinton HS Swim Team.  Two years later he landed his first paid coaching job with the Marist Swim Club.  Since that time, he has held several assistant and head coach positions.  It has been his privelege to assist many athletes to achieve performances from local championships, regional championships and Junior National Championships. He has also been priveleged to be selected to National Select Camp Staff, Eastern Zone Championship Staff and Empire State Games staff.

Coach Bob has dedicated himself to the development of the sport of swimming as well as the development of athletes.  He  has served 3 terms as General Chair.  He has also served has Age Group Chair and has served Metropolitan Swimming for approximately 12 years. 

As a swimmer, Bob came to the sport late, joining his High School team at age 15.  Soon after, he joined the Rose Hill Swim club out of Fordham University, Bronx, NY.    Daily double practices (triples during the HS season) worked their magic and allowed him to break several HS records, win the "Golden Jock" award and qualify for local and regional championship competition in AAU swimming.   Bob's college career was distinguished as he broke all the distance and Individual Medley records at Marist College and enjoyed top finishes in Collegiate Conference Championships

Bob's coaching philosphy is embodied in two words..."Defy Limits"   The focus is to help swimmers of all abilities to recognize their potential and convey the confidence to push past their limits to achieve that potential.

In addition to swimming accomplishments, Bob was a highly decorated Police Officer.  He received 14 commendations during his career.  He retired in 2003 after serving 20 years, combined, with the NYC and City of Yonkers Police Departments. 

Larry Coaches the Beacon Senior Prep Group and provides logistics and planning services for all of our team activities.

Larry has been outstanding at the transitioning of our Junior Swimmers into the world of intense training and racing at the Senior Prep level.   His work has been the "Keystone" of the success we are experiencing with our Senior Swimmers.  

His coaching career began in 1975 and he has held numerous Assistant and Head coaching positions over the years. Larry has enjoyed significant  and continued success in nurturing swimmers to local championshps, regional championships and Junior National championships as well as HS State Championships.

Larry has been selected to the staff of the Empire State Games and Eastern Zone Championship teams. He has also dedicated himself to the administration of the sport of swimming and recently served on the Metropolitan Swimming board as Coaches Representative. He has also served as General Chair and Age Group Chair.

Coach Larry enjoyed a long and succesful competitive career beginning as an age group swimmer for the Elmira YMCA. He was HS Swimmer of the year in 1974 and a HS state qualifier in 1976. Larry qualified for NCAA Division III in 1977 & 1978 and was a member of an All-American 400yd Medley Relay.

His coaching philosphy can be summed up by the following statement:  "Believing in the limitless power of an Indvidual's dreams."  He believes in helping swimmers to "Dream Big" and achieve those dreams.

Aileen Coaches the Beacon Junior Group. 

Sylvia is the Coach of the Beacon Dolphin Group

Sylvia started her coaching career  in 2004, when our team was the West Point Swim Club.  She quickly distinquished herself as a master at developing basic competitive swim skills in brand new swimmers. 

In addition to imparting strong skill sets, Sylvia makes practice fun for her swimmers.  When her swimmers are promoted to the next level, they have a great understanding of basic technique, a solid work ethic, and a great passion for the sport.  Many of our most successful Junior swimmers started their swim career with Sylvia.

Coach Sylvia has also served as an assistant coach for the Putnam Valley HS Girls Team.    She has two daughters that swam for the West Point Swim Club (Now known as Patriot Swim Team)  Both went on to successful collegiate careers at RPI and SUNY New Paltz.

For the  2023/24 Season, Coach Chrisanna will be coaching the Masters Group and assisting with the Senior Group

Chrisanna is a graduate of SUNY Cortland and enjoyed a highly successful College swim career. She began her competitive swimming career with Larry Collins on the USA team Big Blue. She also represented the Patriot Swim Team in USA Sectional competition as a Butterfly specialist. In addition to swimming with Coach Collins, she was a participant on the John Jay swim team. In high school she was awarded Rookie of the year, Patriot Award, MVP, and voted as a Captain. She continued on to compete at the college level for the Cortland Red Dragons varsity swim team. At that time she specialized in Butterfly, Breast stroke and IM. At the end of her college career she finished as: Captain of the girls team; Cortland individual record holder in the 400 IM, 200 IM and 100 Fly; SUNYAC champion, medal winner and National B-cut qualifier. Chrisanna graduated with a BS in Childhood Education.  

In her freshman year at SUNY Cortland, Chrisanna launched her coaching experience in the swim program CAST (Cortland Adaptive Swim Team). CAST is a unique program for swimmers with special needs including but limited to physical, mental and emotional disabilities. Participants are positively affected by their involvement in this program and have become very successful swimmers. By working in CAST she has developed a greater understanding of how to effectively approach each swimmer.  Chrisanna’s aquatic experience also branches off into teaching a college level aquatics class and many private and group lessons for children and adults.

Coaching Philosophy: Everything has a purpose so make it count. 

For the 2023/24 Season, Brian Sarvis will fill the role of support Coach for all practice groups as well as at Swim Meets. 

Coach Marc was the the Head Senior Coach since 2012 and was the director of the Patriot Swim Team from April 2022 until his untimely passing in March 2023.

He did an amazing job getting swimmers to the Junior Olympic, Eastern Zone, High School State, Senior Met, Speedo Sectional, USA Future Championship Series, High School All- American,  NCSA Junior National Championship, Junior National Championship, U.S. Open Championship, and TYR Pro Series level.  He has coached Junior Olympic,  Eastern Zone, Senior Metropolitan, Speedo Sectional, and High School State Champions as well as Speedo Sectional, Senior Met, USA Future Championship, and Junior National medalists.  Coach Marc helped infuse his swimmers with big dreams for and backed that up with innovative training focused on stroke efficiency combined with targeted race pace workouts. 

Marc's Amazing Coaching and mentorship resulting in an Olympic Trial Qualifier in July 2023, 5 Months after his passing.  

An ASCA Level 3 coach, he has had extensive experience in coaching swimmers from Age Group, Senior and Masters Level.   He ran the senior program for two years at Millbrook Swim Club.  Next,  he ran the Age Group Program for Devilfish Aquatics, where he enjoyed great success in helping swimmers achieve many Junior Olympic and Eastern Zone Championship performances.  Marc has also served as an Eastern Zone Championship Coach.

As a swimmer, Marc had an impressive career learning under the tutelage of renowned Coach Gene Damm.  As an age group swimmer in Metro  he became nationally ranked, achieving numerous Junior Olympic and Senior Metropolitan Titles and National Top Ten times. Locally, Marc set many records that still stand today.  He continued his career under another Legendary Coach, John Trembley, at Mercersburg Prep School.  While there, his team won the national title, he attained individual All American Status, and he anchored the Nations #1 ranked 400 Free Relay.  Marc swam for yet another Coaching Legend, Dick Shoulberg, at Germantown Aquatics, then went on to swim for Cornell University.  

Marc offered a unique perspective to his swimmers as he has competed at the national level and competed at the Masters level where he continued his winning ways of achieving top ten national times.   His greatest pleasure in coaching has been helping swimmers achieve goals they never believed possible.  He believed in blending hard work with a positive atmosphere that will instill a lifelong love of swimming so that his swimmers will succeed now and, most importantly, in the future.  

Coach Marc left an enduring legacy and will remain an inspiration to swimmers and staff for many years to come.