Welcome to the PACK Swim Team of Pittsford. You are getting involved in something very special: a complete family-oriented swimming program where the swimmer will receive the very best in coaching, regardless of their level. Parents are encouraged to participate in the parents' organization that is dedicated to assisting a first-class program.

Records do not just happen, and it is PACK's mission in all of its endeavors to search for excellence. We would stack our coaching staff up against anyone and know that the dedication of these individuals goes above and beyond normal expectations. The swimmers are our prime concern, and with the Head Age Group Coach, Laurie McManus, we have the dedication and ability to carry on a tradition of excellence.

You, then, add the ingredient of cooperation: staff to staff, parents to staff, and parents to the Board of Directors, and you have the necessary ingredients for an excellent swim program. The uniqueness of the PACK Swim Team is that it all blends together to make it work for the benefit of all.

"Dedication" is probably the single word that summarizes PACK, and it is my pleasure to have a program of this caliber as an integral part of the Pittsford community.

 

Marty Keating has been the Head Coach of the PACK Swim Team since its inception and is one of PACK's founders. Since 1973, he has been a coach of the Pittsford High School Boys and Girls Swim Teams and is one of the most experienced, knowledgeable, and well-known swim coaches in the area. He has been associated with swimming for many years, having swum competitively in high school and college. He is a member of the American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA), the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association, and the NYS Swim Coaches Association. He is a Level 4 rated coach under the ASCA rating and is a USS Coach, named the Niagara District Coach of the Year in 1987 and 1999.

In 2003, Coach Keating was honored by the Rochester Press-Radio Club as the Galyan's High School Coach of the Year and was also inducted into the Frontier Field Walk of Fame.

Coach Keating received the Jack Palvino Award at the WHAM Sportswomen of the Year Awards Luncheon on April 26, 2004, in recognition of his hard work and dedication to the sport of women's swimming over the past 31 years. He's the Award's 12th recipient and the first high school coach to be so honored. The Jack Palvino Award is presented annually for outstanding support and contributions to local women's sports.

In 2024, Coach Keating received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

Laurie Peterssen McManus has been with PACK since 1982 and has been the Head Age Group Coach since 1987.  She has had a distinguished swimming career. Born and raised in Arizona, she swam in Junior Nationals twice and the Senior Nationals three times. She is an Arizona State record holder and participated in the Olympic Trials in 1976 in the 100-meter freestyle. Laurie was named Arizona's Swimmer of the Year in 1976. She was captain of St. Lawrence University's women's Swim Team, where she was a national record holder in the AIAW Division III in 1978 in the 100 freestyle. She was an All-American 22 times. In 2024, Laurie was awarded the Age Group Coach of the Year. 

 

 

 

Kim Morgan Corby knows PACK as both a swimmer and a coach. She joined the club when she was 10 years old and swam through her high school years. She graduated from Pittsford Sutherland High School in 1987 and was awarded a swimming scholarship to Syracuse University. She was selected to the Eastern Zone All-Star Team for 3 years, competed in the Empire State Games for 6 years, and swam the 100 and 200-yard backstroke events at Junior Nationals. Upon graduation from Syracuse in 1991, she joined the PACK coaching staff.

 

 

 

Rick Schmitt started swimming competitively at the age of 6 and was an All-County Swimmer at Webster High School and All-Conference at SUNY Oswego.  While at Webster and Oswego, Rick set school records and was a Co-Captain of the swim team.  Rick has been coaching swimming at the age group, high school, and collegiate levels for over 20 years.  He teaches Physical Education at Penfield High School, and while coaching the Boys program at Penfield, he was named Section 5 Class A Coach of the Year twice; currently, he is the Head Coach of the Pittsford Boys Swimming & Diving team.  Rick started coaching with the PACK in 2006 and has coached all levels of swimmers, from our Bronze group right up to our National/Sr group.

 

 

 

Sean O’Malley has been with PACK since 2009 as a coach for the age group swimmers.  He swam competitively since the age of 8, growing up in Buffalo.  He continued in college as a member and captain of the Nazareth College Swim Team.  Sean specialized in the Butterfly and Sprint Freestyle events.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brandon McManus has been involved with PACK since he was 6 years old, both as a swimmer and now as a coach. He has 6 years of experience teaching swim lessons and is excited to follow in his mom's footsteps, coaching PACK. He attended Pittsford Mendon High School, where he swam on the varsity team for 5 years and was voted co-captain his senior year. He was a member of the 2010 All-Greater Rochester Team and was awarded the Section V Sportsmanship Award that same year. He continued his swimming career at SUNY Cortland and graduated with the school and SUNYAC conference records in the 200 and 400 medley relays.
 
 

 

 

Female Placeholder Vector Images (over 480)Erica Champman joined the PACK swim team in 2021. Erika grew up in the Albany area and continued her swimming career at SUNY Geneseo. She specialized in the individual medley and went on to win several SUNYAC titles and participated in the DIII NCAAs. She has previous experience in coaching at the age group, high school, and collegiate levels. Erika is excited to be on deck again.

 

 

 

 

 

Female Placeholder Vector Images (over 480)Katie Fallon joined the PACK swim team as a coach in 2021. Katie grew up swimming for PACK and is excited to give back to the team. She was captain of the Pittsford Varsity Swim team and a Section V and State Champion. She continued her swimming career at SUNY Geneseo, where she won several SUNYAC titles. Katie specialized in sprint freestyle events.

 

 

 

 

 

Female Placeholder Vector Images (over 480)Michaela (Mia) Manaseri joined the PACK swim team as a coach in the fall of 2022 as a coach for bronze age group swimmers. She began swimming at the age of 8 in Brighton and continued swimming competitively as a member of the Aloha Aquatics swim club in Oahu, Hawaii. Mia was a varsity high school swimmer and water polo player as well as a member of the Olympic Development Program (ODP) in Hawaii. As a member of the MCC women's swim team, she specialized in the backstroke.

 

 

 

 

Female Placeholder Vector Images (over 480)Rob Coatsworth has been the Head Coach for the Pittsford Boys Modified Swim Team since 2021. He is currently a Learning Specialist at Mendon High and an adjunct in the M.S.Ed program at SUNY Brockport. Rob has coached and taught swimming to all ages since 2012 for Tri Town Aquatic Club in Elma, NY, as well as Nazareth College. Rob swam and captained at Nazareth College from 2015 to 2019, where he earned several school and pool records in the Medley Relays and Breaststroke events; he is also a School & Empire 8 Conference record holder (2015-2019). During his time at Nazareth as a swimmer, he earned the Bill Carey Sportsmanship Award (2019), the Most Improved Award (2017), the Hardest Worker Award (2019), and the National Consortium for Athletics & Sports Student-Athlete Community Involvement Award (2019), and was a four-time Academic All-American. Rob stays current with developing his coaching skills by continuing to swim regularly as a Masters swimmer and by reading swim literature and collaborating with regional coaches whenever possible. Rob's passion is to make swimming a sport accessible to everyone, to celebrate and share the sport's competitive atmosphere, and to increase the collaboration and quality of the sport for people of all ages throughout Rochester.

 

 

Female Placeholder Vector Images (over 480)Heather Chance began swimming competitively at age 7 for the Pointe-Claire Swim Club in Montreal, Canada. She started swimming at the Junior National level at 14 years old and at the Senior National level at 17 years old and competed at the 2004 Canadian Olympic trials as a breaststroker and IM'er. She swam for McGill University during her undergraduate degree. Heather has ten years of lifeguarding experience, coaching swimmers at the age group level, and teaching swimming instruction to infants through adults.  

 

 

 

 

LindsayLindsay Cooney joined the PACK swim team as a coach in the fall of 2025. Lindsay began swimming at the age of 6 in Georgia and continued swimming competitively for various club and school teams through high school, specializing in the breaststroke and individual medley events. Lindsay has coached and taught swimming to all ages since 2009, most recently for the Life Time Swim Team – Central Texas. Lindsay stays current with developing her coaching skills by continuing to swim regularly as a Masters swimmer, by reading swim literature, and by participating in continuing education offered through the USA Swimming Coach Education Certification program. 

 

 

 

In Memoriam

 Jennifer Simson swam competitively for 14 years, both locally and at the University of Maryland.  She was an Empire State Games qualifier 5 times and an Eastern Zone selection 6 times.  She also competed at the Junior Nationals.  In addition to competitive swimming, Jennifer also played collegiate water polo.  Jennifer passed away in 2010.  PACK helps to keep her spirit alive by running a scholarship fundraiser meet in her name annually.  She is missed and will always be part of our coaching family.