Archives: Coaches

Adrian Dinis comes to MESA Aquatics with a ton of experience, both as a swimmer and coach. As a coach, Adrian was the co-founder, Head Age Group Coach and Head Coach of Rattler Swim Club.

After 45 years of successful coaching, Bob Steele is in his fifth year of serving as Master Coach Consultant for USA Swimming. He has coached age group, high school, and university swimmer, entry level through world-class competitors.

Josh Huger joined the Tennessee Swimming & Diving staff in June 2019, and the 2019-20 season will be his first on Rocky Top.

Georgia Reiner is the Senior Coach for the Penn State Club Swim Team in University Park, Pennsylvania. Georgia has been teaching swimming since 2006, and coaching since 2011. In 2012, the Penn State Club Swim Team placed 7th out of over 50 teams in the East Coast Collegiate Swim Club National Championship

Coach Castellano was born in Naples in 1968 and swam until almost 30 years of age, competing at the Italian Youth Championships swimming the 400 meters and 1500 meters freestyles.

At age 18 Coach Craig left his home in Ireland for an internship at Arizona, a desert fox mentored by Bob Gillett as an Age Group Coach. He then moved to Canada to take over a fractured team combined of two different teams joining forces to turn out performances again under new leadership.

Ozzie Quevedo joined the Crimson Tide swimming and diving staff as associate head coach in June 2019. Quevedo joins the Tide following three seasons as Florida State’s assistant head coach.

Harmilee is the Head Junior / Associate Senior Coach for YSSC and is primarily responsible for developing the quadrennial training plan, used by the Junior and Senior divisions of the program, at the Middle Tyger YMCA training site.

Pieter Ritz was hired to the UNLV swimming and diving coaching staff as an assistant swimming coach in July of 2022. Ritz comes to the Rebel program after a three-year stint at Cleveland State, serving the first two years as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator and this past season as associate head coach.

Kevin Pierce has been the Head Coach of both the boys and girls swimming teams since the 2015-2016 season. Pierce brings over 19 years of coaching experience at the high school, club and college level to the Green Raiders.