2010 Coaches' Bios

Assistant Coach

Name: Ashley Paludan

School: Sophomore at Auburn University

Hobbies: playing four square, laying out, slip n sliding, napping, swimming faster than Valerie, listening to Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, lemonade stands, storm chasing, watching Spongebob.

Favorite Swimteam Memory: When Andrew Sneed led the entire swim team into the woods and made us put on Indian war paint and walk around the pool and Valerie Nubbe!

Head Coach

Name: James Sweeney

Nickname: Coach James

School attending: Junior at UAH

Hobbies:
YoungLife leadership, First United Methodist youth leader, basketball, football, golf

Favorite Swimteam memory:
Andrew Sneed/My first year of swimming winning first B meet at Mountain Springs in several years

Assistant Coach

Name: Valerie Nubbe

School: Senior at Huntsville High

Hobbies: Swimming, running, biking, hiking, water polo, hanging at MTSP, Greasy watermelon, lacrosse, 4-square, surfing, wathcing Spongebob, rescuing stray animals, baking cookies, and slip-n-sliding

Favorite Swimteam Memory: Andrew Sneed, Ashley Paludan, and singing/dancing to "I want it that way" by the Backstreet Boys

 

Assistant Coach

Name: Ethan Jones

School: Sophomore at Huntsville High School

Hobbies: swimming, playing video games, gator, greasy watermelon, and playing trivial pursuit.

Favorite Swim team memory: When our coaches got on top of one of the pool's buildings and had a light saber battle.