Associate Coach

A Masters coach at DU for almost two years, Mike is a six-time U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS) national champion with 25 years’ experience in the program.

He started swimming at age 6 while growing up in Colorado. Years later, Mike went on to swim and play water polo at The University of New Mexico. From 2005-2006, he was assistant coach for Littleton High School’s swim program.

Mike currently holds the national Masters records in the 50-55 age group for the 200 and 400 individual medley (IM).

Associate Coach

Ken has coached with DU’s Masters Swim team since 1997. He’s authored several articles in competitive swimming publications, and in 1998, he was named COMSA’s coach of the year.

Ken is a Colorado native and swam competitively at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He has brought his distance swimming skills into the pool, and several times, he has placed in the national top 10 in the 1000/1650.

An avid open-water swimmer, he has participated and placed in several nationally known open-water swims, including the Wingshadow Horsetooth Reservoir 10K swim, La Jolla Rough water swims and Big Shoulders in Chicago.

Associate Coach

Elliot coaches, trains and swims at DU. (He’s a member of the Hilltoppers Swim Team.) In 2009, he qualified for the USA Nationals in the 100 breaststroke.

He started swimming at the age of 14, when he was cut from the diving team. He could flip in the water, but not in the air. He got a lot better at swimming, and, by his junior year in high school, he was a captain of the team. By his senior year, he received the most valuable swimmer award.

Elliot has been coaching swimming since age18. He joined a Master’s team after college and decided to train with a USA club team after taking a top five at a Masters national competition.

He loves coaching and is passionate about swimming and swimmers.

Associate Coach

Teri began swimming with the DU Masters team in 2000 and has been a coach since 2003.

She began her swim career in age-group swimming in South Dakota before swimming for St. Olaf College, an NCAA Division III school in Northfield, Minn.

Since then, Teri has accumulated numerous SCY national rankings, is a three-time national champion in short course yards and has also been named the 2010 open water national champion for a 6K swim.

Teri’s open-water experience includes competing in the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, the Outrigger Canoe Club Swim and the Horsetooth 2.4-Mile Swim, from which she has garnered several first- and second-place finishes. She is also a physical therapist.

Associate Coach

David was born and raised in Minnesota, where he began swimming competitively at age 6.

After becoming a state high school champion swimmer, he attended The University of New Mexico on a full athletic scholarship. In college, he was a top-20 National Collegiate Athletic Association swimmer and a member of a nationally ranked water polo team.

After college, David coached swimming and water polo on the age-group and high school level before spending three years overseas as a teacher in the Peace Corps.

For the past five years, David has coached for SwimLabs, where he keeps current on the latest stroke techniques and innovations. He coaches two Masters Swim teams and a kids’ summer league team, and has been a swim coach for the CWW triathlon team for five years.

A former teacher in Denver Public Schools, David is currently an instructor at Arapahoe Community College.

Associate Coach

Katie began coaching DU Masters in fall 2001 and was head coach from March 2006 to July 2007.

She began swimming competitively at age 8 and continued through college at the University of Iowa for two seasons before transferring to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Katie completed her collegiate swimming career at UNL and was awarded All-American status in 1994.

After college, Katie took a few years off but returned to the pool in 1999. She’s been involved in Masters swimming as a coach and swimmer since. Katie has had several top-five USMS Nationals finishes.

Her love of Masters stems from the camaraderie of the participants, encouraging adults to stay fit and accomplish goals, and the personal fulfillment of a satisfyingly hard workout.

Associate Coach

Scott started his swimming career in high school and began competing in triathlons in 1986. Throughout his career, he has completed six Ironman races, and numerous Olympic and Half Ironman distance races.

Scott is also an avid open-water swimmer and regularly participates in the Horsetooth 10K swim. He has coached with the University of Denver Masters Swim Team since 2007.

Substitute Coach

Dave started his swimming career at age 12 in Florida. While attending the University of South Florida, Dave turned his focus to triathlons and headed the Masters program.

Throughout his career, he’s completed five Ironman races and served as DU’s Masters head coach for more than two years.

Substitute Coach

A competitive swimmer since age 10, Erika competed in Olympic trials for 200 fly in 1988 before swimming at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas.

While at SMU, she focused on distance stroke events such as the 400 IM and 200 Fly. In her senior year, Erika was elected captain of the women’s team.

Since moving back home to Denver in 2000, Erika has completed numerous open-water swims and multiple triathlons of all distances (her favorite is Escape to Alcatraz), including three Ironman distance triathlons.