Official Sponsor of 2003 TEAM OHIO!

David Lienesch - Ohio ZONE Team Coach SFFDave@aol.com  

Club affiliation: Sycamore Flying Fish (Cincinnati, Ohio) SFF
Years Coaching: 6
Number of past ZONE and QUAD trips: 1
Bio: Bio coming soon!

  JEREMY WILKEN - Ohio ZONE Team Coach jeremy@erinet.com 

Number of Past QUAD and ZONE trips: 2
Club affiliation: Washington TWP Recreation Center Sharks (Centerville, OH) WTRC
Years Coaching: 8 years
Bio:  Jeremy has been coaching USA-Swimming for 8 years and he is currently the Head Age Group Coach of the WTRC Sharks.  Jeremy has coached numerous AA Champions, zone qualifiers and champions, Olympic Trials Qualifier, National Record holder, Sectional Qualifiers and champion, Senior National qualifier and top 8 finisher, several Ohio AA meet record holders and LSC record holders.  Jeremy is a level 4 ASCA (American Swim Coaches Association) Coach.

CAROLYN STRUNK - Ohio ZONE Team Coach cstrunk@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Club affiliation: Bowling Green Swim Club (Bowling Green, Ohio) BGSC
Years Coaching: 7
Number of Past QUAD and ZONE trips: 2
Bio: Carolyn Strunk is beginning her 7th year as the Head Coach of the Bowling Green Swim Club. Prior to joining the Gators in 1995, she was the BGSU men and women's assistant coach for three years. Carolyn began her swimming career in Pittsburgh, PA and completed it at the College of Wooster (where she also began her coaching career). This is her second trip as a coach member of Team Ohio.

RYAN SHELLEY - Ohio ZONE Team Coach andrew_shelley@hotmail.com 

club affiliation: Dayton Raiders (Dayton, Ohio) DR
Years Coaching: 5
Number of Past QUAD and ZONE trips: 1
Bio: In the fall 2003, Ryan will begin his 5th season assisting with the Raider program.  Ryan has 15 years of competitive experience.  The son of a career military officer, Ryan had the privilege of traveling all over the world and gained valuable swimming experience throughout his career.  Ryan began swimming with the Playground Swim Team in Panama City (FL). He later swam for the Tyndall Sharks and Wright-Patterson Flying Fish (WPFF) in Dayton (OH) in the early 1990's.  During High School, he was a member of the Dayton Raiders (DR).  At Fairborn High School, Ryan was a 4-time District qualifier and letterman.  Following high school, Ryan swam for the Navy, Coast Guard and at the University of Kentucky.  Ryan was a NCAA (NEC) qualifier in the 200 Fly and 400 IM in 1999 and 2000.  Ryan also had prior service in the Marines/Navy SEAL program, one year Coast Guard onboard "Barque Eagle", 3 semesters AFROTC at Kentucky.  He later graduated with a B.S. in Political Science and is currently working towards a B.S. in Human Factors Psychology at Wright State University.  In addition to his duties with the Raider program, Ryan counsels pre to early teenagers at Childrens Medical Hospital.  Ryan's family, originally from Aviano, Italy, are now retired in Dayton. 

  SUZIE RETTERER-HELFRICH - Ohio ZONE Team Coach we6swim@hotmail.com   

Club affiliation: Greater Columbus Swim Team of Ohio (Columbus, OH) GCSTO
Years Coaching: 16
Number of Past QUAD and ZONE trips: 1
Bio: Suzie Retterer-Helfrich has over thirty years in the swimming business which she started as a summer competitive swimmer and lifeguard in Marysville, Ohio. Competitively, she gravitated toward available sports as there were no year-round swim teams with which to compete in that area.  She initially was an avid tennis player, the last female cut from a national level team at The Ohio State University, but then as a racquetball player excelling to the State Open Champion in 1980, qualifying twice for the national team and then as a professional on the national tour.  In an effort to pay the bills, Suzie was a physical education teacher and coach for six years, having graduated from OSU with a BS in education and an MA in Sports Administration.  Since that time, she has served five years as an elementary principal, ten years as a high school assistant or principal and three years as an instructor of Child Development at OSU while doing her doctoral work in Educational Administration.  During one stint at OSU she was in charge of aquatics there and has spent almost every summer in pool management and coaching with fourteen years as a year round USA Age Group coach with Buckeye Swim Club and Greater Columbus Swim Team of Ohio for which she now coaches.  With organizational development as a strong area of involvement, Suzie was a founding part of the NEW Swim League in Central Ohio, both Marysville Summer Swim Team and Marysville High School Swim Team and Olenangy High School Swim Team.  She was named OCC Coach of the Year in 2000 for her league winning Olentangy Girls Team.  On the side, or actually on the forefront, she is the co-coach along with her husband Hap of "Team Helfrich" comprised of  four daughters ranging from OSU Swim Team member, Rachel(20)  to Marysville High School swimmer Sarah(16) to Zone/Quad/AA level swimmers, Katie (soon 12) and Maggie (soon 11). 

JASON ROBERTS - Ohio ZONE Team Coach swmcoach824@msn.com

club affiliation: Northern Kentucky Clippers (Erlanger, KY) CLPR
Years Coaching: 5
Number of Past QUAD and ZONE trips: 2
Bio: Jason Roberts has been coaching for the Northern Ky Clippers for three years. In the three years the team size has nearly doubled.  In 2000 at Double A's Jason was voted Ohio Age Group Coach of the year, much to his surprise. In the three years that Jason has been coaching for the Clippers, he has coached numerous swimmers to top 16 qualifications and rankings. Jason is currently a student at Northern Kentucky University working on a degree in History. His claim to fame when he was growing up was when he was 11 years old he fell off the high diving board at the local YMCA and landed on the pool deck. In the fall he broke my back and have always been noted as the guy who closed the board forever; since he fell off the board and it has never reopened.  

BRENT T. PEADEN - Ohio ZONE Team Coordinator Peaden01@erinet.com
Home: (937) 431-5016
Club affiliation: Dayton Raiders (Dayton, Ohio) DR
Years Coaching: 13, 7 with the Dayton Raiders
Number of past ZONE and QUAD trips: 5
Bio:  Brent has been coaching USA-Swimming for 14 years, 7 years with the Wright-Patterson Flying Fish (3 years Head Age Group) and the last 7 years with the Dayton Raiders (3 years Head Age Group). Brent was also the Head Coach at Fairborn High School 1991-2001 and was the Head Coach at Wayne Swim Club 1994-1999. The 1999 Ohio Age Group Coach of the Year has coached several swimmers to over 30 state records, National "Top 16" times, National Age Group Champions, National Junior qualifiers, and Central Zone record-holders. Brent has a lot of energy and enjoys coaching at all levels.  Brent graduated with a B.S. in Human Factors Engineering at Wright State University and is employed by Veridian Engineering at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.  In 1999, Brent was the Ohio Team Head Coach, helping Team OHIO win its first ever Central Zone Championship team title. When Brent has time, he enjoys fishing on the east and west coasts and in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.  Brent was married to his lovely wife, Ann, in 2000 and lives in Beavercreek, Ohio and are expecting their first child in August 2003 (hopefully several weeks after zones!).