Coaches and Directors
Coach Webber is in his beginning his fourteenth year as the Head Coach and Program Director of HSA. He has previously served as a coach at both the Birmingham Swim League and the Greater Chattanooga Aquatic Club (now Baylor Swim Club). Over the course of his 20 year coaching career, he has coached swimmers at the highest level of the sport, including Olympians, Olympic Trial, National, and Junior National qualifiers. He has also coached numerous Southeastern and High School State champions. He has been selected as the Southeastern Swimming Senior Coach of the Year.
Coach Webber has also served the sport of swimming through various means. He has served as the General Chairman of Southeastern Swimming, the Administrative Vice Chair, the Age Group Vice Chairman of Southeastern Swimming, and as the Finance Chair. He currently sits on the National Club Development committee, as well as the Board of the National Club Swimming Association. He has coached seven Southeastern Swimming All-Star Teams, serving two of those years as the Head Coach. He has also coached at the Southern Zone Select Camp, and the NCSA All-Star Camp.
Family - Coach Webber is a graduate of Clemson Universtiy. He is married to Jenell Webber and they have two daughters who both swim for HSA.
Office Hours: M-F 9:00 am- 12:45 pm
Coach Felipe is originally from Mexico City, Mexico. He is a graduate from the University of Memphis with a B.S. in Exercise Science. Felipe began his coaching career in 2005 and has included time with Memphis Tiger Swimming as Associate Head Coach, Germantown Swim Team as Head Age Group Coach, Windyke Country Club Swim Team as Head Coach, JCC Aquatic Club as Associate Head Coach, and several middle and high school swim teams in the Memphis, TN Area. He has worked with Tennessee state finalists and Alabama state champions, age group sectional finalists, senior sectional qualifiers, junior national and senior national qualifiers. Felipe has been selected to coach for the Southeastern Zone All-Star team in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. He was also selected to be on the coaching staff of the 2016 Central Zone Diversity Camp. Felipe has also been involved with LSC governance as Age Group Chair for Southeastern Swimming in 2016.
Coach Ben started at HSA in 2017. Ben served as the Head Coach of the 1996 Turkish Olympic Team. He is an ASCA level 5 coach and has been coaching since 1978. He comes to HSA from Memphis Tiger Swimming where he was the Head Coach and COO for 3 years. Ben has previously been the Head Coach/COO in High Point, NC, Tualatin Hills Swim Club in Beaverton, Oregon, Birmingham Swim League and Wildcat Aquatics in Lexington, Kentucky.
Coach Ben has also been an assistant coach at the University of Alabama under the legendary Swim Coach Don Gambril and the University of Kentucky. Ben has coached swimmers of all levels including 2 Olympians, Olympic Trial qualifiers, National and Junior National level swimmers. Plus, many USA Swimming National Team members.
National coaching positions have included, National Junior Team, World University Games, USA Olympic Festival Team, and National Team Camps.
Coach Ben has also served swimming through involvement at the LSC and National level. He has served as General Chairman, Technical Planning Chairman, Finance Chairman, Rules and Regulation Chairman and many other positions.
Lori Daniel is excited to be a part of the Huntsville Swim Association team. Lori and her husband, Brent, have two HSA swimmers, Bella & Caroline. Having been an HSA parent for the past seven years, she is aware of some of the questions parents may have, specifically new parents. Look for Lori around the pool if you have any questions or send her an email and she will be happy to help you.
Coach Pate brings over 30 years of coaching experience to our Masters Team and was recently selected for Induction into the Southeastern Swimming Hall of Fame. Brooke served as HSA's head coach until the summer of 2010, when he retired from the Head Coach position. As a Senior coach, Brooke was the 1983 and 1992 Southeastern Swimming Senior Coach of the Year. During his tenure, he also coached numerours Olympic Trial, Senior National, and Junior National qualifiers. Among that group of swimmers were several National Age Group Record Holders and an American Record Holder.
Coach Pate is also an expert bicycle mechanic, and is an avid rider himself. His knowledge of both the swimming and biking world make him an ideal coach to work with both the competitive Masters swimmers, as well as the competitive triathletes that use Masters for swim training.
Alison Pick begins her first year at HSA. She has been coaching for 20 years at all different levels and age ranges. She most recently she was the Head Coach of Kearney High School Girls Team as well as the assistant coach for the Boys Team. Before that she was the Head Coach of Wichita Swim Club from June 2014 until March of 2020. While at WSC, there were many achievements the club and student-athletes achieved. Over sixty team records were broken, five swimmers were recognized as USA Swimming Scholastic All-Americans, three NISCA All-Americans, and much more. WSC also became a USA Swimming Bronze Medal Club for the first time in 10 years. Coach Alison was also selected to be a MV Zone Team coach as well as a USA Swimming Select Camp coach. She was the Missouri Valley Swimming LSC coaches representative and served on the MV BOD for three years. She is a Level 3 American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) certified coach, a certified USA Swimming coach, and a Level 1 Amphibious Exercise for Improved Swimming (AXIS) certified coach.
Alison brings an impressive resume of coaching and administration experience to HSA. Before she coached in Wichita, she was the Assistant Head Coach at COOG Aquatics in Houston, TX for 2 years. She spent the 8 years before that coaching at SwimMAC Carolina, one of the best club teams in the U.S., where she coached all levels of swimming, from age group to Olympic Trial qualifiers. While living in North Carolina, Alison also worked as assistant coach at Davidson College in Davidson, NC, head coach of Lake Norman Charter School in Huntersville, NC, as well as head coach for the Wynfield Waves and Northstone Country Club, both summer league teams in Huntersville, NC. She also coached at South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. Her first swim coaching gig was as assistant squad coach for the Siouxland Sharks in her hometown of Sioux City, IA.
Coach Alison has many notable coaching awards and experiences. She was awarded 2018 Missouri Valley Senior Coach of the Year and the 2015 Missouri Valley Age Group Coach of the Year, coached Olympic Trial qualifiers in 2012, most recently a 2020 Olympic Trial qualifier, and has received coach of the year twice (2010-11 and 2011-12) during her role as head coach at Lake Norman Charter School in Huntersville, NC. Coach Alison’s favorite thing about coaching swimming is helping guide swimmers toward their goals, help them through the process, and then seeing them achieve those goals. She likes watching the improvement that takes place in her swimmers.
Alison grew up in Sioux City, IA, where she began swimming at age 9. She swam for the Siouxland Sharks for 10 years, and also swam for Sioux City East High all four years of high school. Alison then swam for Northern Illinois University from 1996-2000. Her favorite races to swim are the 100 fly, 200 fly and 100 free.
Butterfly and freestyle tie for Coach Alison’s two favorite strokes. She holds high school records in the 200 Medley Relay, the 200 Free Relay, the 400 Free Relay (which still stands today), and she was also appointed team captain her senior year of high school. She was voted most improved her freshman year at Northern Illinois University and served as team captain there from 1998-2000.
Coach Alison received her Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Recreation from South Dakota University in 2004, with a minor in Public Recreation. She also studied athletic training at Northern Illinois University from 1996-2000.
Alison is a Chicago Cubs fan, an avid TV watcher and loves watching sports and listening to music (especially Dave Matthews Band). She has a younger brother and loves being an aunt. She adores her niece and nephew and tries to spend as much time with them as she can.
Hanging out with Olympians is something Coach Alison was fortunate enough to be able to do while working at SwimMAC Carolina. If she could spend time with an Olympian she hasn’t yet met in person, she’d pick the versatile Tracy Caulkins or record butterflyer Misty Hyman.
Coach Arthur has been with the HSA coaching staff since 2013. He arrived in Huntsville after serving in the Peace Corps, teaching English to children in Ukraine. Coach Arthur was Head Coach at Evander Childs High School, where he was named Evander Childs Coach of the Year and led the team to their best record in 15 years. He also coached at Three Village Swim Club in East Setauket, NY, where he was the lead Novice group coach for three years. Coach Arthur has also coached Huntsville High School since 2015. He is currently teaching 8th grade at Huntsville Jr High.
Family: Coach
Arthur lives in Huntsville with his wife Krystle,
son Cillian, daughter Caitlyn and their dog Bronxy.
Office Hours:
By Appointment
Coach Jan brings her passion and knowledge of swimming to the HSA coaching staff. She moved to Alabama in 2015 from Boulder City, Nevada to be near family. Coach Jan spent over 20 years with the Boulder City – Henderson Swim Team in Nevada, as well as a year with Madison Swim Association as an age group coach. She started coaching for HSA in 2016. She brings her coaching experience to all age groups and levels. Her main focus is developing young swimmers to reach beyond their expectations. Coach Jan’s swimmers have been Southeastern Champions, Sectional swimmers, State and Junior Olympic champions, USA top ten, and competed at Jr. National, National, and Olympic Trials .
Coach Jan grew up in New
Mexico and was a state champion basketball, volleyball, and
tennis player. She is a graduate of West Texas State A & M
University with a degree in communication graphics and
marketing, and worked as a graphic designer before coaching.
Coach Jan started swimming at the master’s level and believes
this has contributed to her enthusiasm and dedication to the
sport both as a swimmer and USA Swimming Coach. She enjoys
yoga, gardening, art and design.
Family – Coach Jan
and her husband Blake Bunch live in Decatur. Her
daughter Blakeley Bunch is an Auburn University graduate
and lives and works in Madison. Blakeley is a four-year
Auburn athlete in swimming and competed in the 2008
USA Olympic Trials. Blakeley has a son Zander that
swims for HSA, and who is Jan’s only grandchild. Dylan
Bunch is her son who is a graduate of The University of
Denver in Denver, Colorado, where he lives and works.
Dylan swam at the NCAA championships throughout his
collegiate career, and competed in USA Olympic Trials 2012 and
2016.
Coach Jan looks
forward to her HSA swimmers' success in and out of the
pool.
Monica Scarano is returning to her hometown after leaving for Southern California in 1998. In Riverside, CA she served as Head Coach for boys and girls swim team at Woodcrest Christian High School from 2014-18. In early 2019 she joined the Riverside Aquatics Association to work primarily with 13&U.
Earlier in her aquatics career (1989-1997) Scarano was the Aquatics Director at The University of Alabama in Huntsville where she directed and managed all phases of the university’s aquatics facility. From there she went on to become a middle school science and then high school math teacher at Woodcrest Christian School.
Swimming: Susan began swimming in Mobile at age 5 with Spring Hill Swim Club, continuing through high school with City of Mobile Swim Association and McGill Toolen Catholic High School.
Family: Susan lives in Huntsville with her husband Scott (former Valley Hill CC swimming legend) and their children Sally and Joe.
Coach Rachel is beginning her seventh year as coach of the Intro to HSA group. Rachel has been a coach with the Blossomwood Barracuda summer swim team for the past 20+ years and has coached with swim teams for over 30 years. Rachel is a 1998 Huntsville High graduate and earned her master’s degree in special education from Auburn University in 2003. She is also a Board Certified Behavior Analyst.
Rachel started HSA's lesson program four years ago, and with the help of Coach Sydney, has been able to grow the program tremendously.
Coach Matt had this to
say, “I cannot say enough about Rachel and Coach Susan and
the role they have played in the development and growth of the
Intro swimmers and also in the overall growth of HSA. The
foundation that they are establishing will ensure the continued
growth and success of the HSA team well into the future.”
Swimming and Multi Sport: HSA is fortunate to have
someone with the talent and experience that Rachel brings as a
coach, but is also very proud that Rachel is also HSA swimming
Alumni! Rachel began swimming as a child for the Randolph Summer
league team, later with Huntsville High and HSA. Rachel is an avid
runner and Triathlete.
Family:
Rachel lives in Huntsville with her husband Patrick Clark (HSA
Alumni and Rocket City Record Holder) along with their children
Will(HSA), Lily(HSA) and Eli(HSA).
Sydney is entering her 4th year as an Intro to HSA Coach. This is her first year as the assistant Red 1 Coach. Sydney coordinates our swim lesson program while also being an instructor herself. She has grown up around the pool and has been involved in the swimming community for 16 years. Coach Sydney grew up swimming at Whitesburg Pool, was an assistant Coach for four summers, and has been the head coach in 2020, 2021, and 2022. She swam for Grissom High School and year-round until the age of 12. She is currently in college here in Huntsville pursuing a degree in Business Management. She loves working with kids and has a passion for teaching them to be more proficient swimmers. She is also active in the Young Life community. Sydney is thrilled to be a part of the Huntsville Swim Association team of coaches.
Coach Sarah began coaching the Intro to HSA group in 2021, after pioneering the development group at Lily Flagg Pool that summer before. She later joined Coach Rachel and Coach Sydney in 2022, as a lesson instructor for HSA's growing swim lesson program. In 2010, she was Head Coach for Whitesburg Pool and coached them to a third place finish in the City. Sarah previously coached as a fifth year assistant at the University of Kentucky in 2002-2003, while earning dual degrees in Art Education and Photography. In 2007, she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from Samford University. Sarah has worked as a certified Art teacher as well as a Registered Interior Designer before getting back into her passion of coaching swimming.
Swimming: Sarah began swimming at the age of 5, in Shreveport, Louisiana. She competed year-round throughout high school, and assisted with numerous swimming stroke clinics and taught swimming lessons in every city she has resided in. In 1996, her family relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, where she continued swimming for Parkway Swim Club and became a Junior National qualifier. She graduated from Westminster Christian Academy (in St. Louis), where she was a record holder and a top finisher at the Missouri High School State meet. Sarah is a proud Alumni of the University of Kentucky, where she continued her swimming endeavors, specializing in Backstroke and Individual Medley with her favorite events being the 400 IM and 200 backstroke. While at UK, she earned the Frank G. Society of Character Award and was a four-time SEC Academic All-American. During her last two college summers, she trained under Coach Brook Pate at HSA, after her parents relocated to Huntsville. She has a deep love for swimming and a strong desire to help young swimmers become more proficient in the water and succeed outside of the pool.
Family: Coach Sarah lives in Huntsville with her husband Matthew, along with their twin boys Carter and Nathan and daughter Lilly, who all swim for HSA. She also works as a substitute teacher for Huntsville City Schools, and enjoys gardening, interior design and photography.
