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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.

  bulletCoach 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

bulletCoach 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).