The Williams Lake Blue Fins now have a new Head Coach.
Chad Webb who has been at the helm since 1996 is passing the torch onto new head coach Amanda Nemeth.
For the last six years, she has been Webb’s assistant and is very familiar with the Organization.
“I swam for the club for my whole childhood, I actually swam for Chad when I first started and I coached for the club as a senior swimmer. I was a junior coach for three years and I coached the Special Olympics Williams Lake.”
Nemeth said they try really hard to coach each swimmer individually so there’s a lot of planning, a lot of preparation, and plan the whole season before starts, and adjust as we go based on our swimmers needs and where they’re at.
“I’m really excited to see where the kids are going. We have such a great group of pre competitive kids, and new fundamental kids who are nipping at the heels of our competitive swimmers now. Keep your eyes on the club in the next few years because I think that think they’re going to do some pretty great things,” Nemeth added.
Webb who was a highly competitive swimmer at the National level got his start in coaching at the age of 16 when shoulder surgeries forced him out of the pool.
Chad said he’s had many highlights in his swimming career and even more during his time coaching the Blue Fins.
“We had a National swimmer Gold medal at the Canadian National Championships. We had swimmers at World Championships, and the repeated club records and performance improvement every year. That’s what we do this job for and it’s been an amazing feeling to have those opportunities.”
Webb noted that the club is in great hands with Nemeth as her coaching style brings a lot of energy, excitement, and fun to the Organization’s highly successful program.
We asked Webb what he’ll miss most.
“Our culture, our teamwork, and the kids that come into the program. They are amazing individuals that turnout to be amazing people later on in their career. They’re extremely successful as we see now, many of them are coming back and we have a lot of their kids in the programs from when I coached them twenty-some years ago. It’s cool to see the turn around and the full circle now that we’re coaching their kids. Whether it’s coming back and coaching Amanda who use to swim or having some of these families bringing their young one’s into the sport, that’s pretty neat”.
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