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Spring 2018 Update
NBAC’s longstanding pursuit of
excellence – the one you know
and were a part of, continues! Our
swimmers and alums have been hard
at work this season.
From Maryland Senior Championships, to 14 &
Unders to Juniors and “B”
Championships, NBAC continues
to be the top team
in Maryland and one of the
country’s most successful.
At the Speedo Junior
Nationals, XXX and XXX
finished in first in the XXX. Overall, the team
had an outstanding performance. Our women’s
team placed second, and the team as a whole
finished third.
At World Championships in Budapest last
summer,
NBAC was
represented by
two swimmers,
Easop Lee and
Chase Kalisz.
Chase swam
his way to
the top in the
200 and 400
IM claiming
the World
Championship,
while Easop
finished in the
top eight with a
best time in the
200 freestyle.
NBAC is also known for two of the world’s top
Paralympians, Jessica Long – the second most
decorated U.S. paralympian
of all time, and
gold medalist Becca
Meyers. This year was
no different for these
two. Both took home
golds at the World Para
Swimming in Mexico
City. Becca won a gold
in the 400 free, 2 silvers,
and a bronze while Jessica took home eight
gold medals.
And, it wasn’t just our current swimmers making
an impact this year.
At Worlds, we were
proud to see our alums
in the line-up. Cierra
Runge brought home the
Ana Bogdanovski represented
Macadonia,
and Mohamed Hussein
represented Egypt. Congrats
to everyone in our
NBAC family!
gold as part of the World
Championship Women’s
4 x 200 freestyle relay.
Also, swimming in worlds,

Coaches Honors
Congratulations go out to Head Coach Tom Himes. He
was once again nominated for the ASCA Age Group
Coach of the
year award.
Coach Himes
won the award
in 2015.
Alumni Accolades
Katie Hoff - NBAC alum and three-time Olympic medalist
Katie Hoff was inducted
into the Maryland Swimming
Hall of Fame.
Katie made two Olympic
teams during her career,
in 2004 and 2008, and she
won seven World titles
(four individual) in her
career while twice breaking
the world record in the
women’s 400 IM.
Senior Coach Paul Yetter was inducted in the Maryland
Swimming Hall of Fame
in May of 2017
Once NBAC, Always NBAC!
Alums are the people that age groups swimmers look
up to. They are the legends that the 6, 7, and 8-yearolds
hope to become, they are
the swimmers that paved the
way and give them confidence
that they can do the same thing.
They may be Olympians who
won a medal or maybe they
swam in college – to age groupers
it doesn’t matter, these
swimmers are the holy grail,
the ones they are in awe of.
This year, one such swimmer
and alum returned to the NBAC pool to support the
team at its Candy Cane Meet. It was 1996 Olympic Gold
Medalist, Beth Botsford. Botsford who is a coach at the
University of Arizona gave our swimmers a pep talk,
helped time the meet, and posed for pictures.
Polly Winde Surhoff - The Ellicott City native started
setting swimming records as an 8-year-old and never
looked back. To this day, she continues
to swim regularly, having most
recently placed third in the Great
Chesapeake Bay swim this past June,
at age 52.
Surhoff is a three-time NCAA All-
American with the University of
North Carolina and was a member
of the U.S. National Team. She is the
cofounder of Pathfinders for Autism,
Maryland’s largest autism organization. In addition to
being a former NBAC swimmer, she is also a former
NBAC parent. Congratulations!
Michael Phelps - Michael and wife Nicole announced
the birth of their second
child, son Beckett Richard.
The couple’s baby boy was
born on Monday, Feb. 12.
The new addition joins
21-month-old big brother
Boomer Robert.

NBAC Senior Class
Our swimmers aren’t just good in the pool. Here’s a
look at the Class of 2018’s college commitments.
As we celebrate the swimmers who will soon join the
ranks of alums, we asked other alums what their favorite
NBAC memory was and what advice they’d give
graduates embarking on a new journey.
Theresa Andrews/Olympian
Dylan Arzoni
Michael Phelps/Olympian
Lara Bate
Billy Cadigan/USNA freshman
Emma Daugherty
Whitney Metzler/Olympian
Pat Brannan/??
Will Pelton
Connor or Courtney Kalisz/FSU/LSU
Easop Lee
??/Rollins College
Darah Schillinger

Tom Himes
Bio: Tom Himes has 38 years of coaching experience in addition to five years of summer league coaching.
Coach Tom first began his career with NBAC in 1985 after spending six years with the Howard County YMCA
(1979-1985). He spent 17 years with NBAC as the Head Age Group Coach, before departing in 2002 to coach
with The Retriever Aquatic Club (2002-2006), Green Terror Aquatic Club (2006-2007), and Loyola Blakefield
Aquatics (2007-2009). During his time with each team, Tom elevated the level of each club’s Age Group
Program. In 2009, he returned to NBAC and in December of 2010 he took over once again as the Head Age
Group Coach. In the fall of 2016, Coach Tom was named NBAC’s Head Coach.
Coach Tom has coached swimmers to more than 500 National Top 25/Top16/Top10 rankings, including
81 number one rankings, 37 National Age-Group Records and more than 450 Maryland State Records. In
addition, NBAC won 11 consecutive American Swimming Coaches Association Age Group National Team
Championships. He has coached some of the best swimmers in the world as age groupers, including Olympic
Champions Michael Phelps and Beth Botsford and he has produced countless others that have gone onto
being collegiate swimmers, USA Swimming JR Team Athletes, and USA National Team Athletes.
Tom has served on the Maryland Swimming Board of Directors for more than 30 years in various capacities
including the General Chairman, Age Group Chairman, Technical Planning Chairman, Zone Team Coordinator,
Zone Team Head Coach and member at large. In addition, Tom was appointed to the National Age Group
Development Committee for the 2017-2020 period.
In 2005, Coach Tom was inducted into the Maryland Swimming Hall of Fame. In 2015, the American Swimming
Coaches Association honored him with the National Age Group Coach of the Year award. To recognize
his service to Maryland Swimming, the Maryland Swimming Age Group Coach of the Year Award was
renamed in his honor.
Contact: thimes@nbac.net
Paul Yetter
Bio: Paul Yetter became NBAC’s Head Senior Coach in November 2016. Prior to the Fall of 2016, Paul was
the Head Coach of T2 Aquatics (Naples, FL 2010-2016), an Assistant Coach at Auburn University (Auburn, AL
2009-2010), NBAC’s Head Senior Coach (2004-2009), and NBAC’s Harford Site Lead Coach (2002-2004). During
the 2001-2002 season, Paul gained experience assisting National Coach of the Year Bob Bowman with a
variety of NBAC’s training groups.
A 7-time member of USA Swimming’s National Team Coaching Staff, Paul has represented the USA as an
Assistant Coach at the 2008 Olympic Games, the 2007 Japan Open, the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships,
and the 2005 World Championships. Additionally, Paul has served as the Head Women’s Coach of the 2007
Pan American Games, and most recently as the Head Men’s Coach for the USA’s Youth World Championship
Team at the 2013 Youth World Championships in Dubai, U.E.
Coach Yetter’s athletes have represented the USA in every major International Competition, winning medals
at the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, World Championships, Pac Pacific Championships, World University
Games, Pan American Games, Junior Pan Pacific Championships, and the FINA World Youth Championships.
Since 2004, Eleven athletes under Paul’s guidance have qualified to represent the United States in Senior-
Level International competition. Most recently, T2 Aquatics’ Michelle Konkoly set 2 World Records within the
S-9 Classification on her way to winning 2 Gold Medals, 1 Silver, and 1 Bronze at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
Yetter was Katie Hoff’s coach in 2004 when she qualified for the Athens Olympics at age 15, and again in
2008 when she qualified for the Beijing Olympics. From 2005-2008, under Yetter’s guidance Hoff set 2 Long
Course World Records and 18 American Records, while earning 3 Individual Olympic Medals and 6 World
Championship Gold Medals. During the 2007-2008 season, Hoff set at least 1 American Record in 9 different
events.
Following the 2008 season, Yetter guided 15-year-old Elizabeth Pelton to the 2009 USA Rome World Championship
team, where she finished 6th in the 200 Backstroke. Pelton qualified for the US Team in 3 individual
events -- more than any other female swimmer from the United States that year.
Yetter has guided 12 different athletes to a No. 1 National Age Group ranking, setting over 75 National Age
Group Records in the process.
For his efforts in coaching, Yetter was named the 2007 USA Swimming Developmental Coach of the Year as
well as the 2007 United States Olympic Committee Developmental Coach of the Year for all Olympic Sports.
Contact: pyetter@nbac.net

Tony Lindner
Bio: Tony returned home in December ‘07 to begin his second stint with the North Baltimore Aquatic
Club. He is a Senior Level Coach.
Tony began his coaching career as a Varsity and Junior Varsity coach for Archbishop Curley High School
with John Cadigan from 1987–1990, during which time they won a dual meet title, a league championship,
and advanced to a higher conference.
Tony’s first tenure with NBAC began in 1991 when he initially began working as a Stroke Clinic instructor.
He also assisted Head Coach Murray Stephens with the Senior Elite group from 1993–1997 which
included Olympians Anita Nall, Beth Botsford, and Whitney Metzler.
After completing graduate school and relocating to San Diego, Tony became a Varsity coach for Cathedral
Catholic High School [CCHS], formerly known as University of San Diego High School (Uni). During
his time at CCHS/Uni (2000–2007), the girls were five-time CIF regional champions and two-time
runners up. The boys finished CIF runners up once. In 2006, the CCHS girls’ team finished the season
ranked #8 in the country for independent (private) schools. Over eight seasons, the team had multiple
All-Americans.
Tony is an alumnus of Archbishop Curley High School, the University of Baltimore (B.S., Finance), and
the University of South Carolina (Masters, International Business Studies - MIBS)
Contact: tlindner@nbac.net
Kathryn Violette
Bio: A native of Westbrook, Maine, Kathryn began swimming at the age of 11 for the Westbrook
Seals. She continued her swimming career at the University of New Hampshire, a Division
I institution in the America East Conference.
During her tenure at UNH she was a part of two consecutive championship teams; 2012-13,
2013-14 and helped her team reach an all-time high ranking of 14th in collegeswimming.com’s
Division I national poll in February of 2014. Kathryn was voted by her teammates to serve as
captain. She graduated with a B.S in Dietetics and minored in Psychology.
During an internship in Baltimore, she worked at the Michael Phelps Swim School for four
months before starting with NBAC as a High Performance/Challenge level coach.
Contact: kviolette@nbac.net
Solomon Sniad
Bio: SCoach Solomon began his coaching career with NBAC in 2009 under the direction of Head
Coach Tom Himes. He worked primarily with our Discovery and Imagination swimmers. In 2011,
he started leading his own group.
In the fall of 2016, Coach Solomon was named Associate Head Age Group Coach and in the fall
of 2017 he will take over as Head Age Group Coach. During his tenure with NBAC he has had
the opportunity to coach multiple Maryland State Champions, numerous Maryland Swimming
record holders, and several of his swimmers have been ranked nationally.
In addition to his coaching responsibilities, Coach Solomon is one of the most requested instructors
with the Michael Phelps Swim School, and he also runs the NBAC Stroke Clinic. Prior
to joining NBAC, Coach Solomon taught swimming at the JCC in Owings Mills, and he has served
as both the head coach and assistant coach for the Meadowbrook Tomatoes.
When he’s not on deck coaching, he loves being outdoors, and watching sports – his favorite
team to root for besides NBAC, is the University of North Carolina Tarheels..
Contact: ssniad@nbac.net

Brian Horan
Bio: Coach Brian’s swimming career began when he was just 6-years-old. He swam for Cheltenham
Aquatic Club (CAC) outside Philadelphia. He grew up in their program and during college
began coaching for CAC. He spent two years with the club before moving to Baltimore.
In 2008, Coach Brian became a swim instructor with the Michael Phelps Swim School and began
coaching NBAC’s stroke clinic. In 2013, he began coaching our age group swimmers. Today, he
oversees our Discovery 2, and Imagination 2 & 4 groups.
In addition to his NBAC coaching responsibilities, he managed and coached the summer swim
team at Otterbein Swim Club from 2008-2013. When he can, he continues to assist that club
with swim meets.
Coach Brian is a proud Towson University Tiger, graduating in December 2016 with a Bachelor’s
of Science in Accounting.
Contact: bhoran@nbac.net
Rob Kessler
Bio: Coach Rob joined NBAC in the fall of 2016 as an Age Group Coach. While he may be new to NBAC,
his passion for swimming and teaching began at an early age, swimming for the South Carroll Serpents
and the Green Terror Aquatic Club. As a teenager, he began teaching swim lessons and working with
young people.
Following high school, Rob began working at a sports camp and after-school program that offered
swimming as one of many activities. He left the sports camp in 2008 after serving as its director for
several years and moved to Hawaii, where he taught kindergarten physical education at a local elementary
school.
After spending nearly a year there, Coach Rob returned to Maryland to complete his bachelor’s degree
at Frostburg State University where he was chosen by the faculty to give the commencement address
for the College of Education in 2011.
In the summer of 2015, Rob returned to the South Carroll Serpents as the assistant swim coach, and
prior to NBAC, he was an age group coach for the Carroll County YMCA. During the school year, he
teaches fifth-grade in Baltimore County.
Contact: rkesler@nbac.net
Charles Nyasae
Bio: Coach Charles is NBAC’s newest age group coach. Despite being new to NBAC, Charles is
no stranger to Goucher College’s pool. The pool our age group swimmers call home is the same
pool Charles swam his collegiate career from 2002 to 2006 when he graduated from Goucher
with a major in economics.
In 2014, Charles headed up his first Developmental Swim Team, helping young swimmers learn
proper stroke technique. His desire to teach and grow as a coach has continued to flourish and
he is looking forward to helping young swimmers progress to the next level.
When not coaching or swimming, Charles works at Brick Bodies Fitness Services as a Membership
Counselor.​
Contact: cnyasae@nbac.net

Fundraising Event!
WHAT: 2nd Annual NBAC Swim-A-Thon
WHEN: Saturday, June 16, 2-8 p.m.
WHERE: Coppermine Green Valley Swim & Tennis Club
TO VOLUTEER: VolunteerNBAC@gmail.com
50 Years of Swimming!
All money raised will go to the New Pool Building
Fund and to support the NBAC Operating Budget.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to:
*
For more information visit NBAC.net
* usaswimmingfoundation.org/sat
“The USA Swimming Foundation works to strengthen the sport of
swimming by saving lives and building champions - in the pool and in life.”

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HP Anne Pelton agpelton@comcast.net
CH 1 Jaime Mesceda mesceda5@yahoo.com
CH 2 Kate McKenna katherineannejennings@gmail.com
CH 3 Pam Shinnick pshinnick@comcast.net
IM 1 Rob Schrepfer rob.schrepfer@anipharmaceuticals.com
IM 2 Amy Matteini amymatteini@gmail.com
IM 3 Liza DeJesus lizabela@Hotmail.com
IM 4 Karen Boyle kboyle@me.com
D1 Kate Jennings katherineannejennings@gmail.com
D2 Mike Spotte mspotte@me.com
D3 David & Desiree Kim dkim@apprenda.com
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grown out of? Pay it forward by
placing in the NBAC gear swap bin at
the Meadowbrook front desk.
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Fundraising - car wash
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