Adrienne Fontes, LTS Lead Instructor/Coach
Coach Adrienne was a swimmer with the CCSC in the 1980’s. It was in the late ‘80’s that she began working as an assistant coach to Marilyn Swain, the creator of the club’s Learn-to-Swim program. For college, Coach Adrienne attended Assumption College and joined the crew team which she co-captained as a senior. She majored in Sociology, minored in Anthropology and had a concentration in Elementary Education. Coach Adrienne began her career as a classroom teacher in Dallas, TX where she taught ESL to fourth and fifth graders for 7 years. In 2001 she returned to Massachusetts and to coaching at the Cape Cod Swim Club. She has worked with pre-k through fifth grades in the Wareham Public Schools and currently teaches Fitness to the kindergarten through sixth graders at Bridgeview Montessori School.  
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Ron Zuwallack, Head Coach
Ron Zuwallack has been coaching with the CCSC since 1992 and was named the club’s head coach in 2007. Ron coaches the MMA Senior group and also assists with the Junior groups. In 2012 and 2014, he was named the New England Age Group Coach of the Year. As a swimmer, Ron joined the CCSC in 1983, swam for Coach Marc Solomon, and developed into a National qualifier. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina where he swam four years.
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Rhiannon White, Beginner Competitive Coach
Rhiannon was born and raised in Falmouth. She began swimming with the LTS program at Cape Cod Swim Club in 1999. She was coached by Ron Zuwallack for most of her ten years with the club. In 2009 she moved on to Bridgewater State University where she was Captain of the Swim and Dive team for two of her four years. She graduated with a Bachelors degree in Graphic Design in 2013. She has been with CCSC for 7 years. Her previous swim coaching credentials include two years as an assistant swim teacher at Stoney Beach, Woods Hole and two years as head swim instructor for Menauhant Yacht Club.
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Mark Waters, YMCA Cape Cod Coach
Mark began swimming competitively in High-school for Hebron Academy in Maine before joining the Division I, University of Massachusetts swim team as a distance swimmer. In his senior year Mark, was top six in New England in several events and was part of the New England Championship squad. Mark holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Fordham University. He has been an assistant coach working with The George School Aquatics Program and was head age group coach for Central Bucks YMCA Dolphins before joining the CCSC.
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Erin Flynn, LTS Instructor
Erin Flynn brings over twenty-five years of swimming and coaching experience to the CCSC. A 3-sport varsity athlete at Springfield College, Erin earned a Bachelor’s degree in Health Fitness and Exercise Science. Before joining the club, Erin was the Lead Swim Instructor & Aquatics Exercise Instructor at the University of North Carolina, as well as Bard College. Erin also coordinates the summer programs at Cape Cod Academy.
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Michael Speer, Competitive Coach
Michael joined the CCSC staff in 2022 and is now leading the MMA Junior groups. Michael was an age group and high school swimmer in Virginia, and continued his swimming career at St. Mary's College of Maryland where he was named senior captain, served on the Student Athlete Advisory Council, swam on three school record-setting relays, and made multiple all-conference academic teams. Michael's previous coaching background includes stints as head coach of Chevy Chase Recreation Association, St. Mary's Ryken High School, and the Edmund Burke School.

David Milligan
Coach Dave joined the CCSC in 2021 and works with our Y groups. Dave was a New England Prep School record-holder and Junior National qualifier in the 1980s and raced for Harvard in the 1990s. He is a middle school teacher in Barnstable with over 20 years of teaching and coaching experience. Fun fact: Coach Dave does swimming color commentary for ESPN!

Cholace Lussier, Masters Coach
Coach Cholace Lussier has been a coach with CCSC at every level since 1983. When she joined the Club, her daughters, Denise and Becky, became competitive swimmers and Cholace began helping out. She has a background in aquatics and developed her competitive knowledge by assisting for over 25 years in all of our programs from learn-to-swim to competitive swimming. She presently assists with the Junior and Senior Groups in our program and coaches the Masters Group.

Mary Nielsen, LTS Instructor
Coach Mary Nielsen has been with CCSC for fourteen years. She is an LTS coach, a Coaches Safety Training Coach and lifeguard for the club. In addition, she is employed by the Wareham Public Schools, Town of Mashpee Recreation Dept and serves as Vice President of the Cape Cod Framingham State Alumni Scholarship Fund.  She is also the Scholarship Chairwoman. In her spare time she lives to swim, bike and walk her Siberian Husky. She lives in North Falmouth with her husband Peter, dog and cat.

Koren Pierce, LTS Instructor/Coach
Koren Pierce has been teaching LTS in the CCSC for over 7 years. Koren was an outstanding age grouper in the CCSC and began her swimming career in the 1980s. She still holds one 11-12 age group CCSC record as of this writing. Koren began assisting when her sister, Adrienne, took over the LTS program. She has two children, Chase and Camryn.
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Cathy Olson, LTS Instructor
Cathy swam on a summer swim team in Arlington, VA as a child.  She earned her BA in French with a minor in History at Connecticut College where she swam for a year.  Cathy received her Masters in Elementary Education from Marymount University and taught in Fairfax, VA for 8 years.  She is currently certified to teach grades 1-6 in Massachusetts.  She is a busy mother of four children.  Her daughter swims with the Junior group, and Cathy swims with the Masters.

Emilee Tholke, LTS Coach
Emilee swam competitively for Brockton High; her events were the 50 and 100 yd freestyle. Her senior year of high school she was the captain of the swim team. She started teaching swimming lessons as a teenager and continued to teach throughout college. Most of her swim teaching career was at the Easton YMCA. She also coached a small swim team and taught the American Red Cross Lifeguard Training Course for the YMCA. In 2008, she graduated from UMass Dartmouth with a Bachelor's degree in Marine Biology. She has been  working in Woods Hole as a Fisheries Biologist for the Northeast Fisheries Science Center for the last 10 years. Emilee teaches the Parent and Baby class along with the 3 and 4 year old age groups at Atria.
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Jack Johnson, Competitive Coach
Jack started swimming for Cape Cod Swim Club at age 10 and continued his swimming career at Bates College. At Bates he was named captain his senior year, was awarded to the All-Sportsmanship team, and ranks top ten all-time in several events. During his high school and college summers, Jack taught learn-to-swim lessons and ran competitive swim classes at Dennis Aquatic School. Upon graduating from Bates with a B.S. in neuroscience and anthropology, Jack was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Czech Republic. Passionate about education and swimming, Jack is excited to return to Cape Cod Swim Club as a coach!