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Coaching Staff

Michael Collins Nova Masters Head Coach

Michael Collins

Michael Collins has been the Nova Masters Head Head Coach since November 2000. Before that he coached at UCLA for four years and the Davis [...]
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Jim Dietrich

Jim Dietrich

Jim Dietrich started swimming competitively at age 7, in the Northern Virginia Swim League (NVSL) during the summers, and United States Swimming year-round with Curl-Burke, [...]
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Coach Kim Thornton

Kim Thornton

As a child, Kim suffered from asthma which severely limited her physical activities until she learned to swim.  Her doctor suggested that swimming might help develop her [...]
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Robin M. Smith

Robin Smith has been swimming her entire life. She competed back in the AAU days and swam for Mike Troy (Olympic Double Gold Medalist 1960 [...]
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Rendy Opdycke

Rendy Lynn Opdycke started swimming before she started walking, and at age 6 began her career in competitive swimming. In 2005, she competed for the [...]
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Dickie Fernandez Nova Masters Coach

Dickie Fernández

Dickie Fernández currently holds a USMS Level 2 coaching certification. He started coaching masters swimming for Ford Aquatics Masters under the supervision of Head Coach [...]
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Nina Jordan

Nina Jordan

Nina swam on a club-level swim team in Binghamton, NY from age 11 to 17 and swam for her high school’s girls swim team (the [...]
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