Maddy is excited to be back for her 7th season coaching for Autumn Ridge and fourth year as Head Coach! She started swimming when she was 9 years old for NACS (now FORT). She also swam for Carroll High School for 4 years and ARST for 5 years. She is wrapping up her second year teaching at Noblesville High School.  She enjoys reading and going on walks!  Coach Maddy is excited for the summer to start so she can see all the new and returning faces!

Christina is so excited to return as Lead Swim Team Coach! She swam for the frogs for the past 13 years, so this will be her first summer as a coach only. Christina is an exercise science major at the University of South Carolina with a minor in neuroscience and a pre-occupational therapy track. She is also a member of the Gamecock Club Swim Team where she enjoys her retirement from the 200 fly! 

Coach Evan is back to coach his third season of swim team as Lead Swim Team Coach!  Evan has swam on Autumn Ridge’s swim team for 10 years, as well as Fort Wayne Swim Team for 9 years. He swam backstroke and was a 4 time sectional champion during high school season.  He is just finishing his first year at Bowling Green for Aviation Studies and Flight Technology where he swims on the club team!  

Coach Lisa will be returning this year as our Technical Coach.  Lisa is the parent of one former and one current Autumn Ridge Swimmer, and has an extensive background in swimming.  She swam for 12 years of club swimming with Wabash Valley Swim Club where she grew up in Terre Haute, IN.  Lisa swam for Terre Haute North High School for 4 years and held school records in the 100 Breaststroke, 200 Medley Relay and 200 Free Relay.  At Notre Dame she played water polo for 4 years and was the captain of the team for 2 years placing in the top ten at Club Nationals during those two years.  Lisa's coaching experience began at DeKalb High School in 2004 where she coached for five years.  She took this small team and excelled by taking swimmers to the Indiana High School State meet all four years that she was the head coach. 

Coach Jack is back for his third year coaching swim team. Jack will be attending Purdue University in the fall to study engineering.  He is excited to be joining his friends to not only swim together but also to coach with them.  

Coach Catherine is excited to be back for her third year coaching swim team. Catherine has swam for Autumn Ridge for the past 13 years. Swimming on the Autumn Ridge Prep Team started her love of swimming when she was 5 years old. She swims year round for Fort Wayne Swim Team and also swam for Carroll High School. She enjoys going to Disney World and hanging out with her dog Sophie.  She will be attending Ohio Northern University to study pharmacy.  She is so excited for this season of Autumn Ridge.

This is Coach Joe's second year coaching Swim Team for AR.  He is just graduating from Carroll High School and will be joining the Air National Guard.   Joe's positive attitude makes every day fun at practice for our frogs!

Maris Williams is taking on the role of Co-Head Prep Team coach this season.  She has been with us as a Prep coach for the past several years and we are excited to move her up!  Maris is just finishing her Sophmore year of high school at Carroll HS.  She swims for both FORT and Carroll High School.  

Naomi Bowland is our second Co-Head Prep Coaches!  This will be her 7th year swimming with Autumn Ridge.  She goes to Carroll High School, and is in the class of 2027.  "Two of my favorite things are swimming and teaching kids, so I’m excited to combine the two and coach prep team this summer."

This will be Coach Carson's third year coaching prep team, and he has been swimming with ARST for 6 years.  He is excited to spend the summer with his friends and get the opportunity to help out our younger swimmers with learning to swim!

Jordyn is one of our Prep Team coaches this season.  She has been with us as a Junior Prep coach for the past several years and we are excited to have her as an official coach this year!  Jordyn is just finishing her Sophmore year of high school at Carroll HS.  She swims for both FORT and Carroll High School.

We are excited to welcome James Hench to our Prep Team Coaching staff.   This will be James' 11th year swimming for Autumn Ridge and he is finishing up his freshmen year at Carroll High School.  James swims for both FORT and Carroll High School.  He wants to teach the prep kids his favorite stroke-breastroke!  He also loves to play volleyball.  He plays on a club team and for Carroll.  

Sara and Tim are excited to bring summer diving to the northwest side of town!  They both spent their childhood in the pool. Sara on the diving board at Lake Forest Pool and Tim on the swim team at Park Forest Pool.  They have three kiddos; Isaac, Jacob and Ella who love to dive as well. They are excited to see the progress that each athlete makes this season and most of all they want everyone to have FUN ! 

Coach Lori is our Dive Coach this season!  She has been coaching for 5 years.  She is a coach at IISD and Carroll High School.  She loves reading and hanging out with her dogs in her free time.  

Coach Quinn has joined our team as an assistant dive coach this year. She has been diving for two years and is her first time coaching!  She loves going on bike rides, hanging out with friends, trying new things, doing things with her church, and going to the lake.   She is super excited to be part of the Autumn Ridge Crew and is hopeful we can get some good dives in this summer! 

Hadlee is our other Asst. Dive Coach.  Hadlee been diving for almost 2 years now. Last summer she dove for Blackhawk summer dive and is so excited this summer to be part of Autumn Ridge’s first summer dive team. She also dives for Maple Creek middle school and is part of IISD (Indiana International School of Dive). She enjoy hanging out with family and friends, doing hair, traveling, cooking new recipes and being part of her church youth group. 

Sara and Tim are excited to bring summer diving to the northwest side of town!  They both spent their childhood in the pool. Sara on the diving board at Lake Forest Pool and Tim on the swim team at Park Forest Pool.  They have three kiddos; Isaac, Jacob and Ella who love to dive as well. They are excited to see the progress that each athlete makes this season and most of all they want everyone to have FUN !