HEAD COACH:  The Head Coach supervises the overall direction of the swim team, both the day to day administrative tasks and the on deck operations. 
This coach is also responsible for the strategic planning of the program. The Head Coach is the primary instructor of the Gold/National group along with the Silver III group.

  Coach Paul Mielke

• With more than 20 years of coaching Coach Paul Mielke brings a wealth of new
   ideas and information to the team. The following are some of the positions he has
   held:  Paul was the Head swim coach at the Lighthouse Point Yacht & Racquet
  Club in Florida for almost 15 years. He worked as a Resident Supervisor at the
   Pine Crest School in Ft. Lauderdale in addition to being the Head Age Group
   Coach and National Team Coach. He gained YMCA coaching experience as
   the Head Age Group Coach at the Southeast Family YMCA in Fort Wayne,
  Indiana. He has coached in Southeastern Swimming as the Head Coach of the
   Greater Chattanooga Aquatic Club and the Decatur Swim Association.
  He was the Age Group Coach of the Auburn Swim Team where he coached
  Coach Chris Snyder (Former head coach of MYB).  Paul was a highly decorated
  swimmer. He was a NCAA All-American for Auburn and a AAU(USA Swimming)
  National Championship Finalist. Paul was the Most Outstanding Participant at
   the 1973 YMCA National Championships. Paul won both individual and team
  YMCA championships at Nationals.  

HEAD AGE GROUP COACH

Coach John Scott

ASSISTANT COACHES:

	Coach Joe Reynolds Joe Reynolds has been coaching swimming since 1996, beginning his ten year tenure as the head coach of the Prattville Flying Fish at that time.  A YMCA swimmer  in high school, he never took the sport seriously until later in life – too late to make an  impact on the world scene.  Regardless, the Flying Fish boast multiple top three state-wide finishes in Alabama Parks and Recreation summer swimming since 2000, and are heralded as one of the state’s largest teams with over 180 participants yearly.   Joe began coaching the Barracudas in 1997, where he was a full-time assistant until 1999.  Now Coach Joe juggles several jobs to support his nine children, but he coaches about twice each week during short course season            Volunteer Coaches    Coach Joe Abel Coach Katie Copeland         NOTE:  All coaches will sometimes be asked to assist in conducting practices for swim levels other than their primary level(s).