March 11, 2009
Swimmers and Families,
I am pleased to announce
the hiring of Jess Withey as ORCA’s new Head Age-Group Coach. Jess
comes highly recommended
by his previous
employers, he has a very impressive swimming and coaching background, and I
am excited to see what he can
do to help our
children and our program in general.
Jess’ coaching experience
includes coaching as an assistant for Division I, Syracuse University, where he also helped recruit
and
coach NCAA qualifiers
in 2004, 2005, and NCAA All-Americans in 2006. He was also an
age-group assistant coach, for the
Syracuse Chargers,
part of USA Swimming and Niagara Swimming. Jess also has
Southern California club coaching experience
with the San Pedro
Peninsula YMCA (SPPY) where he worked as an age-group coach, as well as with
Rose Bowl Aquatics.
Jess also swam at Syracuse University where he graduated in 1997 with
a Bachelor of Science in Health and Exercise. While
swimming at Syracuse, Jess went on to set university records in
multiple events, and in 1997 helped Syracuse win the Big East
Conference Swimming
Championships. His other swimming experience includes swimming at the
Senior National level for
USA
Swimming from 1993-1997
and Junior National level from 1992-1993. Jess was the YMCA National
Champion in 1993 in the 50
Yard freestyle.
Growing up in
Los Angeles,
Jess was a two-time high school swimming All-American where he broke and
still
holds the C.I.F. La County
record in the 50 and 100 yard freestyle events, which he set back in 1993.
I am very
excited to have found someone who I think will provide the commitment and
experience we need to help our children
reach their
fullest potentials both as swimmers and adults.
Please join
me in welcoming Jess to our staff tomorrow at 6:00 PM at ELMO, where he will
be introduced to the parents and
swimmers.
He will start coaching for ORCA this Monday, March 16th.
Mark Tierney
Head Coach,
CEO
Orange
Regional Competitive Aquatics (ORCA)
714-648-2111
