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Coach Trotter - Head Coach, Senior Coach & Senior Development
Coach Trotter brings tremendous excitement to the position, with great swimming experience, organization and communication skills, he’s poised to be a swimmer 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 he 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.
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Coach Ken - Blue Group
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.
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Lauren Troyer-Red Group Coach
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!!!
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Scott Putzier-Green Group Coach.
Scott has been with ESC for 11 years. Scott is the perfect coach to introduce the young ones to swimming and infuse them with enthusiasm. Under Scott tutelage they will become to love the water and learn the basic stroke techniques they need to move up.
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