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Coaching Staff

Louis Demetriades

Head Coach

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Coach Louis is in his 17th year of coaching. Under his leadership, Memphis Tiger Swimming has grown and improved on every level. He has experience in all aspects of coaching, including Senior, Age Group, and Masters coaching. He is certified as a Level 5 Coach with the American Swimming Coaches Association-the highest level a coach can attain. He has coached swimmers to the Junior National, National, Pan American Games, World Championsips, and has had numerous swimmers make the National Top 16 individual and relay finalist lists.

Prior to joining Memphis Tiger Swimming, Louis was Head Coachof NGSV Gator Aquatics in southern California. He more than doubled the size of the team in his 8 years there, and swimmers in all age groups thrived to make the Gators a very competitive force in a tough LSC.

Louis has also coached for the Nashville Aquatic Club, where he was Head Age Group Coach and Masters Coach. While there, he was awarded Age Group Coach of the Year for the Southeastern LSC in 2000 and was selected to the Zone coaching staff. Both there and in California, Louis has served on various LSC committees.

A swimmer for, and graduate of, the University of South Dakota with a bachelor’s degree in Recreation, Louis has a wife, Suzanne (a former competitive swimmer), a son, Louie (age 7, an up-and- coming competitive swimmer), and a dog, Bosley (age 4, who’d rather not swim competitively, but is a natural).

Cheryl Schoenberger

Head Age Group Coach

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Coach Cheryl is in her 11th year of coaching with her last 2 as head age group coach of Tigers.
Cheryl served as head coach of the Southeastern Zone All-star team in 2011 in which the Southeastern team won the Southern Zone Championship. Cheryl has also been a part of the Southeastern zone team coaching staff 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Prior to coaching at Tigers Cheryl coached at Pilot Aquatic Club of Knoxville Pre-competitive team coordinator as well as Lead Red group coach and  assistant to the head age group coach, the legendary Jackie Bussard-Bertucci.
Pilot is where Cheryl decided that swimming was going to be a career for her and Memphis is where this dream came true!
Cheryl coached summer league in Knoxville for 8 seasons with the Greater Knoxville Area Interclub Swim Association. Cheryl spent her last 3 summers in Knoxville coaching the Village Green Gators who moved up to win the City Championship and Smoky Mountain Championship in 2008. As a coach Cheryl has become famous for her energy, team spirit, competitiveness, and most importantly her use of flair.
As a swimmer, Cheryl was a four year letter winner and state qualifier for Coach John Woods at the Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga, TN.  Cheryl then went on to the University of Tennessee and is an avid Vol Fan. Cheryl is certified as an Instructor in spinning, Water Safety and Lifeguarding. Cheryl has a four year old son named Simon who loves coming to swim practice and hanging out with the swimmers. Cheryl loves everything about Memphis, especially Central BBQ and Gus's Fried Chicken.

Bryan Parker

Coach: White group/ Senior Performance

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Coach Bryan has been involved in Memphis swimming since he began his country club career as a swimmer at age 8.  Since then he has participated in 20 straight city meets (9 as a swimmer, 11 as a coach)! BP swam for 4 years as a Tiger from 98-02.  He swam and lettered all 4 years at CBHS and went on to swim in college at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN.  

Bryan has been at the helm of the Memphis Country Club Stingrays for 10 years and has grown them from 40 to over 160 swimmers in that time. Bryan is the new head coach at Memphis University School and will be taking over a program that has won the past 3 Shelby County Championships.

Coach Bryan is glad to have been a part of Tigers since February 2009 and is excited to see the team on it's way to achieving great success.

 

Collin Dowling

Coach: Gold and Blue

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Paul Steffan

Coach: Gold

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