Life Time

Northern California

Life Time offers high-quality, professional coaching and technique instruction for all ages and abilities. We promote a lifetime of wellness through the sport of swimming in a safe and inclusive environment. 

Coaches and Aquatic Leaders

Coaching Staff
Adric Jope Head Coach & Arden Head Site Coach

Coach Adric is very excited to be on deck at Life Time Arden! He is in his 16th year of coaching having joined Life Time in January 2024. Prior to joining he was the Head Coach and Aquatics Director at Del Paso 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 lead teams to top National rankings and countless Team Championships. He has coached athletes to be champions at all levels including LSC Age Group/Senior Champs, SWAGR, Far Westerns, Sectionals, Furures, High Point Winners, LSC Record Holders and he has coached numerous qualifiers to meets all the way up to Nationals and Scholastic All-American qualifications. Adric 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 (Western) and 2024  (Western/Central) USA Swimming 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.

Andrew Savine Folsom Head Site Coach

Andrew Savine comes to Life Time Swim with two decades of coaching experience.

As a young coach in his teens and 20’s, Andrew held many positions in recreational swimming, high school swimming, USA Swimming, and stroke clinics in the Bay Area. He was lucky enough to swim and coach under the renowned coaches of Orinda Aquatics, a perennial silver and bronze medal club, known as one of the top clubs in the country under 150 swimmers and recognized nationwide for its character first approach.

After a brief hiatus from coaching in his late 20’s, Andrew re-joined the aquatics world in the Greater Sacramento Area, beginning with a position in Oakmont High School's Aquatics program at the start of 2015. Later in 2015, Andrew joined Rollingwood Athletic Club as its head swim coach in charge of its Rec team, Fall USA team, and stroke clinics. He would later also take on the role of Aquatics Director of the club. In 2019, Andrew made the move to full-time USA Swimming, by joining Spare Time Aquatics as its Head Age Group Coach. In 2021, he was promoted to Head Coach of STAS. During his time with STAS, Andrew trained multiple Sectionals finalists, multiple Futures finalists, two Junior National qualifiers, and a Sectionals champion.

Coach Andrew brings a focus on attention to detail, hard work, dedication, sportsmanship and team unity to Life Time. His #1 goal is to help swimmers develop long, beautiful and efficient strokes; the speed will follow! Andrew is also excited at the opportunity to work with Coach Adric and Coach Marc on continuing to unify Life Time NorCal for USA meets, communication, social events, and more.

Morgan Votava Roseville Head Site Coach

Swimming has been a part of Morgan’s life since the age of four. She competed for 20 years, including at the collegiate level for the University of Idaho. Following her competitive career, she transitioned into coaching and has been coaching swimmers of all levels for the past 5 years. Through coaching, she discovered a true passion for helping new swimmers build skills, confidence, and a lifelong love for the sport.

Derek Choy Arden Assistant Coach

 

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 Arden Assistant Coach

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.

Aquatic Leaders
Kymaya Wallace Aquatic Leader - Roseville
Summer Huntsman Aquatic Leader - Folsom