Russell Mark

ASCA Performance & Education Advisor

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For over 20 years, Russell Mark has worked with the highest performers in swimming. He contributed to the historic success of the last 5 US Olympic Swim Teams through a blend of coaching, data-driven feedback, and technology integration. He has worked directly with Olympic champions like Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel, Nathan Adrian, and Michael Phelps – and has used that experience to help the broader swimming community in best practices for swimming technique and the best culture and environment for performance. 

Currently as ASCA's Performance & Education Advisor, Russell is giving the swim coach community access to everything that he has learned over the years. He is studying age group and club success in order to help coaches bridge the years from age group to elite performance.

Greg Meehan

Stanford Director of Women's Swimming

2021 Olympic Head Women's Swimming Coach

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Greg Meehan, who was named the 2020 U.S. Olympic Women's Swimming Head Coach, enters his 13th season as the Director of Women's Swimming at Stanford in 2024-25. The three-time NCAA Swimming Coach of the Year led Stanford to back-to-back-to-back national championships in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Meehan has also continued Stanford’s unmatched streak of never finishing outside the top 10 at the national championship.

In his 13 seasons with Stanford, Meehan has mentored six Pac-12 Swimmers of the Year, eight Pac-12 Newcomers of the Year, and has won six Pac-12 Coach of the Year awards. He has coached the Cardinals to 18 national championship relays and 28 individual national championships.

An experienced coach at the Olympic level, Meehan mentored five Olympians and one Paralympian, serving as the 2020 U.S. Olympic Women's Swimming Head Coach as well as an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. In that span, Meehan worked extensively with Olympians Maya DiRado, Torri Huske, Katie Ledecky, Lia Neal, Simone Manuel, and paralympian Brickelle Bro, combining to win 19 medals (ten Gold).

Sven Shultz

Bay Area Star Dive Team Head Coach

Craig Nolder Lifetime Achievement Award

Over the past 8 years, his focus has been to expand our diving program called Bay Area Star Dive that meets the needs of athletes in the Houston area by providing year- round instruction in both dryland and pool settings. In 2025, his program will celebrate 38 years in offering dive with multiple athletes who went on to dive in college, start coaching themselves and had one participate in the recent Olympic trials.

Prior to expanding BASDT, his career for seventeen years was mostly developing high school swimming, diving and water polo programs at the 5A & 6A levels.  We had success in all sports at the state level and held an office as the TISCA Water Polo  Chairman. Schultz’s high school career ended by attempting for three years to work as the CCISD district diving coach and as an assistant principal. Schultz is a recipient of the Craig Nolder Lifetime Achievement Award.

Brad Schumacher

Co-Founder of Kap7 Intl.

1996 Olympic Swimming medalist; 2000 Olympic Water Polo team

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Brad Schumacher is a former competitive swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic gold medalist. Schumacher is a two-time, two-sport Olympian. He was a member of the winning relay teams at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Four years later, he was a member of the U.S. men's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Schumacher's two gold medals came as a member of the U.S. men's swimming relay teams at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta: in the men's 4×100-meter freestyle relay and in the men's 4 × 200 m-meter freestyle relay. Although Schumacher qualified for both swimming and water polo for the 2000 Olympic Games, he chose to compete only in water polo. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, he helped the U.S. men's water polo team to a sixth-place finish.

Schumacher is the co-founder of KAP7 International, Inc.and he spends his time as the head coach of SET water polo club in Southern California that continues to rank among the top water polo clubs in the country. His 18-and-under girls club team won the gold medal at the 2009 S&R Sport National Junior Olympics.

Friday, April 11

7:30 - Theron Pickle Golf Tournament @ Blackhawk Golf Course

11:00 - Exhibit Hall Opens

2:15 - Swim & Dive Region Meetings

2:45 - Water Polo Region Meetings

3:15 - Brad Schumacher

3:30 - Women in Water Polo

4:00 - Allison Schmitt

5:00 - Welcome Reception @ Hard Count Sponsored by BSN

Saturday, April 12

General

Swimming

Diving

Water Polo

7:00 - Continental Breakfast

7:00 - Exhibit Hall Open

7:30 - TISCA & UIL General Meeting

11:30 - Legends Luncheon (Invitation Only)

5:30 - TISCA Awards Reception Sponsored by arena & Myrtha Pools

9:15 - Introduction to Myrtha Pools (J. Cleveland)

9:45 - Stroke Technique for All Four Strokes (R. Mark)

1:00 - In Water Session (R. Mark)

3:15 - Brad Schumacher

4:15 - Sticking with the Plan: Torri Huske's Journey to Olympic Champion (G. Meehan)

9:45 - In Water Session (S. Schultz)

1:15 - Coaching the 21st Century Diver (S. Schultz)

2:00 - Diving Coach Panel

3:15 - Brad Schumacher

3:30 - Water Polo Coaching Panel

6:30 - Continental Breakfast

7:30 - College Coach Panel

 8:30 - Nutrition in Sports (A. Goodson)

8:30 - What it Takes to be a Great High School Assistant Coach (K. Murphy)

9:15 - Culture & Swimming in the Public School (D. Walker)

9:15 - Coaching Outside the Lanes: Harnessing Creativity in Coaching (J. Pullano)

10:15 - ASCA Level II Certification Course (R. Mark)

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