Coaches
Please welcome our New Head Coach for the 2024 Season... Alexis Faria!
Coach Alexis started her swimming career at the Cruiser Club, now known as the Lake Mohawk Pool, when she was 4 years old. It was there that she developed a deep passion for the sport. Alexis started swimming year round at Lakeland Hills YMCA when she was 8. Alexis qualified for YMCA Nationals five years in a row and left Lakeland Hills YMCA with multiple individual and relay records. Alexis also swam for Sparta High School and holds five team records. Alexis continued her swimming career at Bucknell University in central PA, where she was a member of the record-holding 200 medley and 200 free relays. She also achieved the program's second-fastest times in the 100 and 200 butterfly. Alexis was enthusiastic about continuing to pursue her passion for the sport after graduating college. She embarked on a coaching journey at the Sussex County YMCA in 2022, where she remains dedicated to coaching. Alexis is a graduate student pursuing her doctorate in occupational therapy. Additionally, she actively contributes to raising her three cousins, two of whom are members of the LMCC team. Alexis is thrilled to be joining the team where her swimming career began!
Coach Brittany began her competitive swimming career at Cliffwood Lake at age 4. She continued her swim career all the way through high school in Vernon. She received her varsity letter all four years and specialized in the 100 Fly. Teaching swim lessons and stroke clinics has been part of her life for as long as she can remember.
She began her coaching career in 2006 as an assistant coach for Cliffwood Lake summer league. In 2014 she became one of two assistant coaches for the Newton Sharks Swim Team. From 2013-2015 she coached her first year-round swim team, Aqua Gems in Warwick, NY. Within her first year of coaching on Aqua Gems, she was able to have 90% of her group qualify for championships at the end of the season. Starting in 2016 she took on the assistant coaching position of Kittatinny Regional High School Swim Team and in 2017 she became one of two head coaches of Kittatinny Junior High Swim Team. She has been a coach on the Lake Mohawk Pool's summer swim team since June 2019.
Coach Tim began his swimming career at the Cruiser Club, now the Lake Mohawk Pool, at age 6. He began swimming year-round, training winter seasons with Lakeland Hills YMCA and summers with the Cruiser Club. In his junior and senior years of high school, Tim qualified for YMCA Nationals with a top finish of 4th in the 1650 yard Freestyle. As a four year varsity letter winner in 1987, his senior year, and Sparta High School team captain, he set a Sussex County record in the 400 meter freestyle, a record which still stands today. Tim began his coaching career as a member of the staff of the Cruiser Club during his junior and senior years of high school.
Recruited to swim for the University of Pennsylvania, Tim set several records his freshman year, and earned varsity letters all four years. He was elected captain his senior year. His last Penn record, the 1650 stood for 19 years, broken in the 2008-2009 season.
After graduating from Penn, Tim continued teaching swim lessons to children and adults while earning his Doctor of Chiropractic degree. He was asked to return to coaching at the Cruiser Club in 2009 when his kids, Finn and Sam joined the team. He has been been with the team as assistant or head coach since.
In the early 2000’s, Tim added sculling and triathlons to his athletic endeavors, competing in international sculling regattas, winning a gold at the Master’s World Regatta and a silver at the Head of the Charles regatta in Boston.
In addition to coaching swimming, Tim teaches Biology and Anatomy & Physiology at Kittatinny Regional High School, continues to see patients at his Chiropractic practice and, along with his son Finn, was the founder of the Sussex County Rowing Club.
I started swimming at the age of 6 for the Shore Hills Swim Team on Lake Hopatcong. At age 7 I began swimming all year round for the West Morris YMCA (currently RANY) until my sophomore year. During that time, I qualified for YMCA Nationals my freshman and sophomore years in the 200 and 100 breaststroke. During my junior and senior years of high school I began swimming for Crimson Aquatic Club at Morristown Beard High School. I was a four year varsity swimmer for Roxbury High School specializing in the 100 breaststroke and the 200 IM. I attended the Meet of Champions in the 100 breaststroke all 4 years. I was elected captain of my high school swim team my senior year.
After high school, I continued my swimming career at the University of Scranton. There I swam the 100 and 200 breaststroke and the 200 and 400 IM. My college team achieved the title of MAC Champions my sophomore and junior year. I was elected captain of my college swim team my senior year.
During college I returned to the Shore Hills Swim Team as head coach for 3 years. Also, while doing my student teaching I took an assistant coaching position for the West Morris YMCA. My two children Emma and Danny both started swimming on the Lake Mohawk swim team as Mighty Mights and my son Danny continues to swim for the team and all year round for the Sussex County YMCA swim team.
I have been a teacher in the Mt. Arlington School district for over 20 years and am currently Reading Interventionist for grades 3-7.
