Louis brings 15 years’ coaching
experience to the Memphis Tiger Swimming program, 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, World Championships, and Pan American Games level, and
has had numerous swimmers make the National Top 16 individual and
relay finalist lists. Louis is currently a National Junior Team
coach.
Prior to joining Memphis
Tiger Swimming, Louis was Head Coach of NGSV Gator Aquatics in
southernCalifornia. 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, hewas
awarded Age Group Coach of the Year for theSoutheastern LSCin 2000 and was selected to the Zone
coaching staff. Both there and inCalifornia, Louis has served on 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 6, an up-and-coming competitive
swimmer), and a dog, Bosley (age 3, who’d rather not swim
competitively, but is a natural).
Cheryl comes to Memphis from Pilot Aquatic Club of Knoxville where
she was lead coach for Red Group and Pre-Competitive as well as
assistant to the head age group coach, the legendary Jackie
Bussard-Bertucci.
Cheryl has been a coach for the 2008 and 2009 Southeastern Zone
Allstar team. Cheryl has served on the high school level, as
assistant coach for the Farragut High School 2006 and 2007 and
Bearden High school 2008, coming away with a City Championship and
State Runner up.
Cheryl coached 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 and won
the League Championship, Smoky Mountain and City Championship in
2008.
Cheryl is certified as an Instructor in spinning, Water Safety and
Lifeguarding. Cheryl has a three year old son named Simon with her
husband of six years, Mike Schoenberger.
Bryan Parker
Bryan started swimming at age eight
for Germantown Country Club and made his way to Tigers at age 14.
Bryan swam high school for Christian Brothers High School where he
was a four year letter winner, State Qualifier and Finalist. Bryan
also gained college swimming experience at Depauw University
.
Bryan has been coaching at The Memphis Country Club for 7 summers
as the head coach. They were undefeated in Summer 2009! Bryan began
with Tigers in 2009 with the Senior Varsity group.
Carla Mabie
Carla Mabie comes to Memphis Tiger Swimming as a Certified Level
1 coach. What Carla brings to the table is a long history of
athletic experience and a great attitude working with kids. Having
been a Georgia high school AAAA starter in basketball, softball,
and track, her real love was competitive dance. She was captain of
both her high school ( Lakeside in Augusta ) and college (Georgia
Southern) dance teams. She has over seven years of dance coaching
experience at all levels.
A former summer league swimmer and coach in Augusta , Georgia ,
she now brings her enthusiasm and love of competition to the pool
deck at Tigers. Working primarily with the red group, but also
filling in as needed with blue and white, she demands effort and
attention to detail while still keeping the kids smiling.
Carla is actively involved in the Memphis Summer Swim League and
had amazing success as head coach of Rhodes Linx in summer
2009.
