Summer Head Coach/Winter Assistant Coach
Coach Jenna is excited to return for her 13th season with the Gators! This year she will be having fun as an assistant coach but you can still count on her to be the loudest coach on deck!
Coach Jenna has been a Gator all her life. She started swimming for the summer PAC team in 1994 and fell in love with the sport. She would spend the rest of her career swimming for Pennridge in the summer and Souderton in the winter. She also was a four year varsity swimmer for the Pennridge High School. She excelled in breaststroke, backstroke, and the IM.
In 2018, Jenna returned to her alma mater to be the head coach of the men’s swim team. And in 2019 began a new adventure by becoming the assistant coach for the women’s water polo team. While coaching the high school teams is a lot of fun and allows her to do the thing she loves most as a career, her heart belongs to the Gator Gang.
When Jenna has a free moment away from the chlorine she loves spending time with her husband John and their pit-bull Apollo, reading, cooking and planning her next trip to Walt Disney World.
There’s a quote that sums up Jenna’s coaching style: “The strongest people are not always the ones who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose”. It’s one of the core values that she strives to instill in all of her athletes along with finding the joy in everything you do!
Sean Kelly
Summer Assistant Coach/Winter Head Coach
Coach Kelly is excited to begin his second year with the Pennridge Gators. His life has been centered on the sport of swimming that includes 12 years as a swimmer and 32 years of coaching. His coaching timeline includes Somerton Spring Swim Club, Lower Moreland Aquatic Club, Central Bucks Aquatic Club, and 25 summers with the PSC High Point Stingrays. Currently, he is ASCA (American Swim Coaches Association) Level II.
Sean and his wife, Kate, live in Perkasie, PA. He is the proud father of Kevin, Caroline, Brendan, and Olivia. He is currently employed by the Central Bucks School District as a sixth-grade teacher at Simon Butler Elementary where he has taught for 25 years. When away from the pool, Coach Kelly enjoys spending time with his family, barbecuing food, and exercising early in the mornings.
His main purpose for coaching is to provide the knowledge and excitement that his coaches gave to him and to share in his love for the sport. Coach Kelly emphasizes stroke technique and mechanics (understanding) integrated within the training. He views every practice as a valuable piece of a puzzle with the finished result showing a knowledgeable and spirited swimmer who learns to be a team contributor. He hopes to instill confidence in children to set goals and believe they can “Make a Difference and Be a Difference” for both themselves and their team.
Kevin Whelan
Summer Assistant Coach/Winter Assistant Coach
Coach Whelan is thrilled to join the PAC coaching staff this upcoming season. He has a long history with the sport of swimming, both as an athlete and a coach. He started his career as a summer swimmer at Hideaway Swim Club where his love for the sport began. He attended and swam for Archbishop Wood high school, and then went on to swim at LaSalle University.
After his competitive career ended in 2007, Kevin looked forward to beginning the next phase of his swimming life as a coach. He first served as assistant coach at CB East for five years, then went on to become head coach of both the CB South girls and boys swim teams for nearly a decade. The last two years, he assisted at CB South as his own family was growing. He was also a head coach at Fanny Chapman for three years.
Kevin has also been teaching math in the Central Bucks School District for 16 years, at Holicong Middle School and currently at CB South. His wife, Amanda, teaches blind and visually impaired students through the Bucks County Intermediate Unit. His oldest, Shalane (Laney), will turn six this year and is a proud PAC gator. His youngest, Connor, will be three this winter.
Coach Whelan has a deep love for the sport of swimming, and is equally grateful for the life lessons instilled in him by this sport and the great coaches he had throughout his life. He is thrilled to start a new chapter in his coaching career and to continue to give back to the sport that has given him so much. He is also grateful to be able to give back to the community that his young family has come to love.
Raegan Vesey
Summer Assistant Coach/Winter Assistant Coach
Raegan is entering her Sophmore year at The Mount Collegel. She is a part of both the swim and water polo team at Pennridge. This will be her 11th year swimming for PAC. She helped coach PAC last summer and during the Winter Season. She is excited to be back with all of the swimmers and helping them love swimming as much as she does.
Grace Christie
Summer Assistant Coach
Grace will be entering her freshman year of college this fall at Catholic University, where she will be playing softball and studying Psychology. Grace has been with PAC for 12 years and this will be her second summer as an assistant coach. As a Souderton High School graduate, Grace was a part of the water polo and swim teams there for four years. She is very excited to be on deck with the team this summer and looks forward to helping to grow their love of the sport.
Brett Musselman
Summer Assistant Coach
Lori Zimmerman
Summer & Winter Head Diving Coach
Coach Lori grew up as a PAC gator way back when... She dove with PAC over the summer, Souderton
Aquatic club over the winter and competed in US Diving meets as an independent athlete. Pennridge HS started their first swimming and diving team just before she graduated high school. "The team was so small that the divers sometimes had to participate in the relay races so that we could have two relay teams! It wasn't pretty, b
ut we got it done and had fun at the same time!"
Favorite Dive: Hmm, it now seems a life time ago...probably the back somersault layout, the front somersault full twist, and the reverse dive layout. They were definitely not the most challenging dives on my list, but they were so fun and felt effortless!
Lori took a break from coaching as she pursued her career first as an athletic trainer for colleges in PA, ME and FL, and then eventually as a school psychologist. In 2017, she returned to coaching as the head diving coach for the PAC summer program and then stayed on as the head diving coach for the winter program as well. "It is so much fun being a part of the PAC program again! I grew up with this club, and the sport of diving was a very important part of my life. Now I have the amazing opportunity to give back to the sport and to the community. Over these past few years with PAC, I have met some outstanding young athletes and families. PAC truly is a family that works to help support, encourage and develop young people to be the best version of themselves. I am very thankful to be able to be a part of PAC once again!"
