Head Coach Nate McBride has been coaching age group swimmers, Masters swimmers, open water swimmers and triathletes since 1993. He is a graduate of Connecticut College where he swam distance and captained the swim team his senior year. Nate is a big fan of high pace/repeating interval, mid to long distance sets and is a big believer in everyone’s ability to become a good, if not great, swimmer. In his coaching tenures in New England, he has had several major swimming accomplishments including having coached multiple individual National and New England Champions, several New England Championship victories, was the USMS National Champion in 2001 in the 1,500 Free and is currently Level 3 certified for ASCA. In addition, Nate’s swimmers have gone on to earn over 30 spots in United States Masters Top Ten rankings. Nate is also a USMS online coach (www.usms.org) for the second time in his career (previously selected in 2004). When not coaching, Nate also works as the head of IT for a pharmaceutical company in Massachusetts.

No amount of money or equipment or books will help you become a great swimmer if you lack the desire to become one. The formula for a great swimmer is simple…a bathing suit, goggles, discipline, a strong work ethic, a vision and trust.

Coach Nate is reachable by:

email - n8@swimwestside.com —- aim/yahoo im - n8×1x8n

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Assistant Coach Ellen Stanley brings 25 years of swimming knowledge to the deck, having competitively swum since the age of 6. A 1998 graduate from Wheaton College, Ellen’s coaching days unofficially began while at Wheaton. Due to injury, she assisted the Head Coach of the Men’s & Women’s swim team and spent her Junior and Senior years on deck. She returned to swimming in 2004, joining Minuteman Masters Swim Club, and began coaching there in June of 2006. When not training for nationals herself as a 200/400 IM’er and 200/500 Freestyler, she is working on and off deck with her swimmers bringing a unique style of coaching to the deck. In 2007 Ellen had top ten times in the country in ten different events. In 2008, Ellen set a New England Record in the 800 Free (SCM) and has embraced distance training as part of her self-training and coaching methodology. Her versatility in training is a core strength that she brings to her swimmers. She has worked with, and continues to work with, swimmers of all talent levels and from all disciplines and is a strong believer in high intensity, stroke specific and versatile sets that challenge swimmers. Every swimmer can be sure that any set they do, she has done it herself and therefore knows that it works and what it is good for. Ellen recently kicked ass at Short Course Nationals in Austin, Texas and is training again for Nationals in Indianapolis!

Coach Ellen is reachable by:

email - ln@swimwestside.com