Stuart Smith joins Frisco Aquatics starting this season in May 2012.  Prior to his arrival, Stuart coached the North Texas Nadadores, where he coached swimmers to Top 10 rankings and State Championship levels, and won three straight 14 and under state championships.  Prior to coaching at the NTN, Smith was head coach for the Wal-Mart Swim Club in Bentonville, Arkansas where he developed senior national qualifiers, junior national champions and earned two “Coach of the Year” awards.

Before Wal-Mart, he was an assistant senior coach at Dynamo Swim Club where he coached several Top-16 qualifiers, junior, and senior national qualifiers. Prior to Dynamo, Smith coached the club team at his alma mater, Longhorn Aquatics where he was an age group assistant coach and produced several TAGS qualifiers and champions, as well as some Top-16 qualifiers.

Originally from Huntington Beach, California, Smith attended the University of Texas – Austin, where he majored in kinesiology and minored in English. While attending university, he swam for all four years and became a NCAA Division I All-American swimmer. In the 1984 Olympic Trials, he was a semi-finalist in the 100 meter breaststroke. Smith is certified by the American Swim Coaches Association as a Level 4 coach.

Coach McGough has over 30 years of coaching experience. He is an American Swimming Coaches Association Level 5 coach, the highest attainable level certified by his professional organization. Coach McGough has a Master of Science degree in Exercise Physiology from Auburn University.

Prior to joining Texas Ford Aquatics, he was the Head Coach of Clovis Swim Club from 2006 – 2021.   During his tenure at Clovis Swim Club, Coach McGough developed 18 Olympic Trial qualifiers. Five of those athletes qualified for National Junior Teams, Junior Pan Pac Teams and World Junior Teams.  Recent performances from Clovis Swim Club include the top 18 & Under performance in the United States for the 2019 Girls 400 Meter Freestyle, 2020 Girls 200 Meter Breaststroke and 2021 Boys 200 Meter freestyle. Clovis Swim Club also achieved Silver Medal Club status and a top 50 Virtual Club Ranking under his leadership. 

Prior to his arrival in Clovis in 2006, he served as the Carroll Independent School District Aquatics Director (2001-2006) where he founded the North Texas Nadadores.  Coach McGough’s extensive coaching experience includes coaching stints at Auburn University, Fort Smith Tideriders (AR), Gator Swim Club (FL), and Alamo Area Aquatic Association (TX).

Coach McGough’s coaching philosophy is one of excellence achieved through encouraging athletes to develop a healthy self-image, personal accountability, goal setting, and achievement of personal goals. “It is the journey, not necessarily the end result, that is most important. Winning is not everything, but striving for excellence is.”

When he is not coaching, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Julie, and his two sons, Jacob and Caleb.  Jacob swam at Purdue University and Caleb swam at Fresno Pacific University.  

Texas Ford Aquatics started a Pro level team in January of 2022 and brought on Coach Coley Stickels to both manage and coach the TFA Pro team along with some of the top high school swimmers in the US. Coley's passion and innovative training style propels athletes to achieve their fullest potential. He has trained numerous high profile swimmers including Olympian Beryl Gastaldello, Abby Weitzeil whom he coached to a gold and silver medal at the 2016 Olympics Games, Santo Condorelli of Italy who came in 4th at the Olympic finals in Rio 2016 and won Silver in the Tokyo Olympics, former World Record holder Roland Schoeman who placed fifth in the 2012 Olympic Games and Japan's Daiya Seto World Record holder in the 400 IM short course and who formerly held the short course 200 meter butterfly world record.

Coley's time as a Club and Division 1 College Coach has earned his swimmers World Championship gold, silver, and bronze medals, Pan-Am
Games gold, silver and bronze medals, World University Games gold, silver and bronze medals, Pan-Pacific silver and bronze medals and Short Course World Championships gold and silver medals.

Over the course of his 25 plus year career in swimming, he has coached at Dartmouth University, University of Indiana and University of Alabama. Prior
to his college stints he coached at Lake Oswego Swim Club, and was Head Coach at Phoenix Swim Club and Canyons Aquatic Club in California where he was the Southern California Coach of the Year in 2017. Other accolades include USA National team coach, 2021 Olympic Coach, USA coach of the 2014 Short Course World Team in Doha, Qatar and was also named coach to the South African Pac Pacific team in 2010.

As a decorated Division 1 athlete, he swam for The University of Arizona where he was a 14-time All-America honoree and
graduated magna cum laude in 2001, and earned a M.S. in Human Performance. He was named a First-Team Academic All-American and First-
Team Academic All-Pac 10 . Stickels was a member of the U.S. National Team from 1999-2000 and swam for Team USA at the Short Course World
Championships in 1999. He now resides in Frisco, Texas with his wife, Lindsay, and there young son Cub.

Former swimmer of 15 years competitively for Metroplex Aquatics, McKinney High School, and then University of Texas at Austin. During my swimming career I was a Sectional, Junior National, and Senior National qualifier. Along with a few accomplishments.
Named Big 12 Champion in the 200 yard freestyle swim
Member of the Big 12 Team Champions 2014-2018
4A and 5A High School Champion in the 100, 200, and 500 yard freestyle

Graduated with a major in Applied Learning and Development and a minor in Kinesiology.

Started my coaching journey in July of 2018 for Metroplex Aquatics as an age group coach. While still living in Austin I joined the Circle C Select Swim Team, there I worked will all levels age group to senior. Since moving back to McKinney I rejoined Metroplex Auquatics again as an age group in addition to senior dryland coach. Finally finding my new home here at TFA as an age group coach.

Coach Wagner da Silva started competitive swimming in Brazil at the age of 8 and has over 35 years of coaching/teaching experience. Born and raised Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil, he has an associate degree in Computer Science. Most of his coaching has happened in Wisconsin where he has helped swimmers become state champions, zone, sectionals, Jr. National and Sr. National qualifiers. He is very excited to be part of such a strong program and he brings a lot of energy to help TFA make great swimmers. Coach Wagner moved from WI in 2011 and has coached at RACE and PAC. Coach Wagner was very fortunate to be named by his fellow coaches in the state of Wisconsin as the Age Group Coach of the Year in 2009 and his team won the small school Wisconsin State Championship in 2010.

Coach Wagner has a beautiful family, Dawn, his wife, Oskar, Andre and Ivan are in college!

GO TFA!!!

Coach Trent began working at Texas Ford Aquatics in August of 2018, after graduating from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Accounting. He grew up swimming for TFA (then Frisco Aquatics) from 2004 to 2014.

Trent is a firm believer in developing swimmers as young people by equipping them with the skills they will need to be successful in any aspect of life that they choose to pursue. He focuses on promoting technique, pride in performance, and a great attitude about work ethic and competition. He hopes that he can pass on his love for the sport of swimming to anyone he gets to work with, and to give back to the awesome community that he grew up being a part of!

Daveen joined TFA in the spring of 2022.  She coaches Platinum 1, White and Red A.  She also helps with Pinnancle and is in charge of membership. 

 

Daveen is originally from Massachusetts but comes to us from Clovis Swim Club in California where she spent 9 years in various assistant roles.  Prior to Clovis, Daveen spent time coaching for Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and was a volunteer assistant coach for Smith College in Northampton, MA. 

 

Coach Daveen graduated and swam for Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts.

She is a part-time trainer at a local boutique gym where she teaches kickboxing and strength training. Coach Daveen’s mother, Debra, works at the front desk for Swim America.