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Annual coaching award winners
The Pacific Masters Coach of the Year award is awarded to a coach who has demonstrated outstanding coaching qualities. The criteria for the award are measured by the following competitive and non-competitive factors:
- Club and individual performance at sanctioned events that reflect the coach's skill and inspiration
- Club vigor, size, and growth, club participation and volunteering, and hosting well-run events
- Outstanding service to Pacific Masters, to USMS, and to other community organizations
- Outstanding professional contributions, such as participation in clinics and published works
Nominations may be made by any Pacific Masters club. A nominating letter and a maximum of four supporting letters from registered swimmers must be submitted to the selection committee by the February meeting of Pacific Masters Swimming. More details can be found in Section 101.8.7 of the Administrative Handbook.
| Award Year | Coach |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Donita Flecker - Sebastopol Master Aquatic Club |
| 2020 | Mary Kahn - Davis Aquatics Masters |
| 2019 | Tim Edmonds - Stanford Masters |
| 2018 | Mike Lynch - Peninsula Community Center Masters |
| 2017 | Carol Nip - Alameda Armada Aquatic Masters |
| 2016 | Mike Kazek - CAL Maritime Academy Masters |
| 2015 | Mary Ann Nygren - TriValley Masters |
| 2014 | Marcia Benjamin - Marcia's Enthusiastic Masters of Oakland (MEMO) |
| 2013 | Tom Reudy - San Mateo Masters |
| 2012 | Stu Kahn - Davis Aquatic Masters |
| 2011 | Cokie Lepinski - SwymNuts |
| 2010 | Chris Campbell - Mountain View Masters |
| 2009 | Linda Gilchrist - Alameda Aquatic Masters |
| 2008 | Laureen Welting - The Olympic Club |
| 2007 | Hermine Terhorst - Santa Rosa Masters |
| 2006 | Valerie Boreyko - USF Masters |
| 2005 | Patty Scott-Bair - Tuolomne County Aquatic Masters |
| 2004 | Alan Liu - Mountain View Masters |
| 2003 | Scott Williams - The Olympic Club |
| 2002 | Joel Wilson - Santa Cruz Masters |
| 2001 | Sharlene Van Boer - Rolling Hills Mud Sharks |
| 2000 | Marie McSweeny - Tamalpias Aquatic Masters |
| 1999 | Tina Talbot - San Ramon Masters |
| 1998 | Tim Sheeper - Menlo Masters |
| 1997 | Brian Stack - Manatees |
| 1996 | Doug Huestis - The Olympic Club |
| 1995 | Mo Chambers - Mountain View Masters |
| 1994 | Polly Kraemer-Upshaw - Strawberry Canyon Aquatic Masters |
| 1993 | Mike Collins - Davis Aquatic Masters |
| 1992 | Kerry O'Brien - Walnut Creek Masters |
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