Joshua W Trotter
Head Coach
Email
Coach Trotter brings tremendous excitement to the
position. With great swimming experience, organization and
communication skills, he’s poised to be a swimmers'
favorite. He brings 15 years of swimming experience with 18
All-American swims and 2 NCAA Div II national championships. He
swam with and against some of the biggest names in swimming in
Southern California. His experience as a coach goes
back many years. While attending California State University at
Bakersfield Coach Josh studied kinesiology with an
emphasis on coaching swimming. While at CSUB, he helped,
coached and mentored under a USA Swimming Hall of Fame Coach at
Mission Viejo Nadadores. Lately, he was the assistant swim coach
for Briggs Community YMCA in Olympia, WA. Coach Josh has
been our head coach for over 2 years
now.
Ken Rice
Blue Age Group Coach
Email
Coach
Ken
Joins Evergreen Swim Club with great enthusiasm and goals for the
upcoming season. As a lifelong swimmer, water polo player,
and surfer Ken has a great understanding for the sport of
competitive swimming.
Competing as a 10 & under he remembers the challenge of his
first meet, belly flops off the blocks and finishing the 25
backstroke with his head not his hand. The first
qualification meet he attended was Far Westerns as an 11-12 sprint
freestyler, motivated by the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
At the high school level Ken enjoyed four years of Washington
State Championship competition finishing as high as 4th
individually, and participating in a 4 x 100 Freestyle championship
relay.
Success with swimming led to Water Polo where some of his greatest
achievements occurred. Twice, Ken was invited to national
development camps at the Olympic Training Center. At the age
of 17 he was the youngest player at the 1991 Men’s Senior
National Tournament, receiving lessons first hand from Olympic
athletes representing their home teams.
These great experiences as an age group athlete encouraged Ken to
begin coaching 8 years ago. The goal of winning races has
shifted to helping others experience the joy in competition and the
esteem of personal bests.
Ken’s first day with the club, his first request of the
swimmers,” Support the
team”.
Lauren J Troyer
Red Age Group Coach
Email
I grew up in Martinsville New Jersey and joined my first
swim team at the age of 5. I would swim competitive for many
years to follow, competing in the NJ Junior Olympics two years in a
row in the 11-12 age group, and winning a first place medal in the
200 meter freestyle relay. I also competed strongly and won
medals at other championship meets in my favorite events, the 200
IM and the 100 breaststroke. Even though I loved swimming I
took a few years off to focus on school work and picked it up again
in high school. Swimming for the high school team gave me the great
sense of social belonging and team spirit that I see now at the
Evergreen Swim Club in the faces of swimmers and swim families
alike.
I moved to Olympia in 2005 to study environmental science
at The Evergreen State College and four years later I earned my
bachelor’s degree in psychology! I plan to start graduate school
in the next few years, but for now I am really enjoying being
reunited with my swimming roots. I have had so much fun getting to
know the swimmers and their families, and have truly been inspired
by the hard work and dedication that is put forth to build this
swimming community.
This is an amazing sport to be involved in; it is fun, healthy and
enriching in many ways. Swimmers learn to work together
as a team and to grow as individuals. I look forward to continued
growth for myself as a coach, and for the athletes as swimmers and
as people.
GO BIG TREE!!!
Scott Putzier
Green Age Group Coach
Email
Coach
Scott is the perfect coach to
introduce the young ones to swimming and infuse them with
enthusiasm. Under Scott tutelage swimmers will
come to love the water and learn the basic stroke techniques they
need to move up. Coach Scott has been with ESC for 8
years.
