2026 Summer Coaches
This year we are excited to present our summer swim coaches. We boast that all of our coaches grew up swimming at Grand Cascades and developed their love for swimming and competing here. Many of our coaches are accomplished swimmers and athletes and are excited to share their knowledge with the next generation of Grand Cascades swimmers! The team has enjoyed much competitive success, but more importantly, thanks to our coaches, our kids have more fun at practices, meets and other team functions than any other group of swimmers anywhere. Our coaches work VERY hard to provide the best possible instruction, they love the kids, and they truly love what they do. They are role models for our children both in and out of the pool.
Rapid's Coaches
Ella Grace Brown, Head Coach
This is Ella's first year as Head Coach and we couldn't be more proud of this future UGA Bulldog! This will be Ella's 3rd coaching our Rapids swimmers. Prior to that, she was a Ripples coach for an additional 2 years. Ella's other passion is soccer and she is on the varsity team at Lambert High school.
Ellie Borgerding, Assistant Coach
Ellie has been a Rapids coach for 2 years. Prior to this she was a Ripples coach for 2 years. While she swims for her high school, Ellie's main passion is LAX. But her summers have been spent poolside at GC along with her siblings.
Jack Kashin, Assistant Coach
This is Jack's 3rd year as a Rapids coach. Jack's main passion is baseball. Jack is currently on the Lambert Varsity Baseball team and will be wrapping up the season just prior to summer swim.
Reid Roland, Assistant Coach
Reid joined our coaching staff last year bringing his love of the sport and expertise as a year-round competitive swimmer to the Rapids. Reid also swims for Lambert's Swim Team and assists with the Special Olympics swim team on the weekends.
Trey Collins, Assistant Coach
This will be Trey's 2nd year coaching the Rapids. His enthusiasm and love of the sport will serve our youngest swimmers like no other. Trey also swims year round and has been swimming at GC every summer since he was little.
JR Coaches
- Olivia Longo
- Kingsley Brown
- Allie Childress
- Jacob Autry
- Sadie Kemmerlin
Ripples' Coaches
- Eva Asemota
- Gianna Ashford
Together, our coaches are here to support your children's needs. If your questions are related to workouts, meets, events, goal setting, and other swimming related needs, please contact one of the Rapid's coaches by emailing [email protected]
For all questions related to administration, such as fees, safety, organization, membership or policy issues, please contact your Rapids Board at [email protected].
**Please note that in order to protect our coaches, many of which are minors, that emails sent to [email protected] are first received by our adult staff then forwarded on to the appropriate coach. All swim team related communications must go through the proper team emails.
