Adric Jope - Head Coach [email protected]
Coach Adric is very excited to be on deck at Life Time Arden! He is in his 15th year of coaching having joined Life Time in January 2024. Prior to joining he was the Head Coach and Aquatics Director at Del Paso Country Club and Arden Hills.
Adric is a former Sierra Nevada Swimming LSC record holder but quit the sport at age 11 due to burnout and a loss of motivation in the sport. He returned to swim 2 years later at age 13 with a renewed vigor, determination and love for the sport that still burns to this day. His return to swim helped shape his coaching philosophy today. His coaching goal is to make his swimmers enjoy every aspect of swim that he did not care for. Peer relationships, coach-athlete interactions, FUN and success are just some of the components he strives to excel at. Coach Adric's philosophy follows two main principles: 1) Enjoy the process and 2) Be successful.
Adric has led teams to top National rankings and has coached athletes to be Winter Age Group Champions, Junior Olympics Champions, SWAGR Champions, Senior Champions, High Point Winners and he has coached several athletes to Western Zones, Sectionals, Futures, Junior Nationals and Scholastic All-American qualifications. Adric has served 5 years on the Board of Directors for Sierra Nevada Swimming and has been named Head Coach at numerous LSC Camps, All-Star Teams and Western Age Group Zones Teams. He also served as an Assistant Coach on the 2023 and 2024 USA Swimming Western Zone Select Camp staff.
Adric grew up as a multi-sport athlete and played 2 years of College Soccer, was on the All-Academic team, and graduated as a Business Honors student from Sacramento State with a degree in Financial Planning.
Derek Choy - Assistant Coach [email protected]
Coach Derek attended Rio Americano High School, where he swam and played water polo for four years. He then swam and studied at Fresno Pacific University, where he qualified for 2 D2 NCAA meets (relays). He later transferred to Simpson University to train for the 2021 Olympic Trials. Derek’s first coaching job was for the Orangevale Tigersharks during Covid before working part time in Redding while training with the Shasta YMCA Sharks. His full-time coaching career began at Saint Francis High school in 2022, where he coached for two seasons (CIF Section Champs, D2, 2023). He spent the last 2 and a half years coaching club at DART Swimming.
Derek is excited to join Lifetime Arden. His goal is to teach athletes the benefits that sports can offer long-term, and develop a true passion for hard-work in pursuit of a long-term goal. Derek looks forward to serving your athletes and guiding them to their success!
Mikaela Nocetti - Assistant Coach [email protected]
Mikaela received a B.S. in Exercise Science from Sacramento State in 2019, where she was as a two-sport student-athlete, earning all-academic and all-conference honors in both indoor volleyball and beach volleyball.
Following her undergrad, Mikaela earned her Single Subject Teaching Credential in Biological Sciences. She became a founding member of the faculty at West Park High School upon its opening in 2020 and is currently a science teacher, girls volleyball coach, and assistant athletic director for the Panthers. She recently completed her master’s degree in athletic administration.
Mikaela's swim coaching experience started with the Arden Hills Otters where she served as an assistant coach from 2014-2019. More recently, she was an assistant coach for the West Park High School Swim Team from 2022-2023.
