Mickey join our Champaign Family YMCA Coaching Staff in August 2024. Previously, she  has been an YMCA Age Group and Senior level Swim Coach since the Fall of 1991 for the Springfield Family YMCA Swim Team (SPY) in Springfield, Ohio. In the fall of 2022, she stepped up to serve as the Interim Head Swim Coach until November 2023. At the end of July of 2024 , she resigned from the Springfield Family YMCA and will cherish the 33 years of memories and experiences.
Also, Mickey did coach local summer swim club teams (Springfeld Country Club and Northridge Swim Club) from 1982-88 and 91-92. She was a volunteer swim coach for Kenton Ridge High School between 1997-98 and 2008-2012. Currently, she continues as an Assistant High School Coach with Head Coach Heather Shaffer for both Kenton Ridge and Northeastern High Schools since 2014.

With her background of education, experiences, trainings, and enthusiasm, she is driven to assist swimmers to achieve great things. Over the years, she has attended various clinics and seminars to enhance her coaching. Though her position at SPY is regarded as a part-time employment,  that her coaching is a full-time passion and dedication.
The coaches of the Southwest Ohio YMCA Swim League have voted her for the “Coach of the Year” award in 2002, 2010, 2011, and 2023. In 2016, Mickey was inducted into the Southwest Ohio YMCA Swim League's Hall of Fame as a coach. In 2019, she was selected as one of the top ten finalist for the Fitter and Faster Swim Cap Tour’s Age Group Coach of the Year and recognized at the 2019 ASCA World’s Swim Clinic’s Awards banquet in Dallas, Texas.
Each swim season has provided thrilling opportunities working with fellow Coaching Staff to develop young athletes at various levels of success. I embrace the way that the Y of the USA's competitive swim program deeply weaves in the YMCA Values of Caring, Respect, Honesty, and Responsibility for the child’s development with that need for Fun and Joy in swimming.
Along with my brothers(Mike & Dan) and sister (Tish), we first started competitive swimming for the Springfield Pepsi AAU Team before joining the Springfield Family Y Swim. swam on the first Kenton Ridge High School Swim Team.
After high school graduation in 1982, she attended Miami University of Ohio where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Education in Physical Education. She taught in the Cincinnati area for a couple of years. In 1993, I did expand her education and career opportunities by attending Central Ohio School of Massage for Therapeutic Massage Education. In 1995, I graduated and became an Ohio Licensed Massage Therapist. She has a thriving massage therapy business in Springfield. From 2006-2021, she was fortunate to be the sport massage therapist for the Cincinnati Reds Baseball Team.
Her love for coaching is fueled by understanding that a sport like swimming is continuous work, and an on-going process…there is always some aspect to develop, improve, enhance, learn, and enjoy. Yet, the most empowering part of swimming is witnessing kids become Responsible, Caring, Respectful, and Honest individuals with the fire to be competitive athlete.
She is looking forward to meeting everyone. Together- We Will DREAM, BELIEVE, & ACHIEVE! So, LET's GOOOOOOOO!