Meet Your Coaches

Head Coach Sarah Lear began year round swimming when she was 8 years old. She swam until she was 16 yrs old for Longhorn Aquatics (Texas Aquatics), Texas Gold and Bowie High School. Her best and favorite event was the 200 Butterfly. She started coaching the Shady Hollow Stingrays at 17 yrs old as assistant coach and coached there for 6 years. The last year she was head coach and pregnant. She took the summer of 2004 off with her new baby. In 2005, Coach Sarah returned to coaching as head coach of the newly formed Barracudas! The rest is history!

Asst. Coach Tinee orginally began year round swimming in North Carolina at age seven. In middle school she stopped swimming year round. She returned to competitive swimming at Bowie High School. Her favorite stoke is backstroke and she is excited to be a Barracudas swim coach this year! She is a Junior in college with a major in Education.

iCoach Kristin Seiter has been on the swim team since it began in 2005. Currently, she is a junior at Bowie High School. Kristin says, "I'm super excited to be an iCoach this year, and I know we will have a great year. Go Barracudas!"

iCoach Sarah Good is a junior at Bowie High School. She has been on the Barracudas swim team since the first year it started! She really thinks we have a chance at beating the Stingrays this year as well. Coaching has been a lot of fun and she can't wait to keep doing it! "All the kids are loads of fun and I love coming to practices with them!" exclaims Sarah.

Asst. Coach "Drill Sergeant" Mark is a Lake Travis Fire Fighter. Coach Mark just finished with the latest round of firefighter recruits and jumped at the chance to whip some kids into firefighter shape. Coach Mark has been Lifeguard, swim instructor and pool manager for 7 years. He and his wife recently had a baby girl. Although this is his first year coaching an official swim team, he is really liking it and looks forward to many more seasons as a Barracuda!

iCoach Madison is a junior at Bowie High School. She has been a Barrracuda for 4years. Madison has been swimming since she was 7 years old. She likes all kinds of sports including swimming, volleyball, la crosse and other sports. She is excited to be a icoach again this year and offers swimming lessons.

New this year are our iiCoaches which will be helping our Coaches with the younger swimmers. These new iiCoaches are Rachel Salinas, Callie Schott, Spencer White, Kasey Seiter Phillip Bixby, Cara Gray, Jordan Gilman & Elise Westmorland. Look for them in the pool helping you across the pool in a snap!