Coach Austin has 11 years of competitive swim experience between summer swim, year-round club, and high school swim. His favorite events were the 200 and 500 free. He started coaching in 2011 with the summer league and helped with the creation of Rockfish in 2013. In his spare time, he is an avid sailor and fisherman.
Coach Cassi is a 16 year veteran swimmer, swimming club, high school, and NCAA. Cassi was a metropolitan regional conference finalist in the 400 IM and the 1650 free all 4 years of her college career. She has been coaching since 2012. She coached for the Cove Point Crocs, William Paterson Pioneers, CAC, and now Rockfish.
Coach Susan has been a coach with Rockfish since 2017. She is an American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) Level 2 swim coach with over 25 years of coaching experience with various levels of swimming including summer league, USA Swimming and Master’s swimming teams. Before transitioning into coaching, Susan was an elementary school teacher for 12 years. She grew up in the Pittsburgh area as a competitive swimmer swimming summer league, YMCA, Club, High School, College and Masters. She still swims laps today for the great exercise! Coach Susan’s group spends a lot of time working on proper stroke technique and preparing to swim outside of their comfort zones while at the same time making friends with their teammates and having fun! Susan is married to Dan (also a swimmer), has a daughter, Melanie (a Special Olympics swimmer), a son, Brad (former swimmer and current college swimming coach) and Rosie (a water loving golden retriever).
Coach Joanna started swimming at the local pool in Michigan at the ripe old age of 5. As a military brat, she learned how to swim on various teams and made many friends along the way. When her family settled at PAX, she joined the PAX River Dolphins summer team and then SMAC and STAR age group teams. In high school, she was an assistant coach for the Dolphins and later coached for an age group swim club in Mechanicsburg, PA. Meanwhile, she continues to swim laps almost on a daily basis and has been on two masters swim teams. Swimming provides kids many opportunities for making lifelong friendships, lessons in overcoming obstacles and pushing yourself outside the comfort zone. Coach Joanna strives to teach these lessons in every practice while focusing on stroke technique and having fun. Joanna is married with two children who have enjoyed swimming on Rockfish and the local high school teams.
Coach Jenna started taking swim lessons around age 4 and has been swimming ever since. She swam competitively year round with CBAC and had the privilege of being coached by our own Coach Susan. She also swam for St. Mary's Ryken's swim team and continued through college. At Ave Maria University she was blessed to be part of their first inaugural swim team. Her specialty was the 100 Fly, 100 Free and 50 Free. Some of her best childhood memories are on a pool deck with people she is still friends with today and she hopes to bring the same experience to her swimmers.
