Coaches and Aquatic Leaders
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 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.
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.
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 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.




