The Woodlands Swim Team


 

03/03/08

Head Coach   
Tim Bauer

Coach Tim has been with TWST since 1993 as the head age-group coach, then head coach beginning in 1998.  He has over eighteen years of extensive coaching experience.  Tim swam for the University of Western Illinois and competed in the Olympic trials in 1984.  He was the City of Phoenix's Coach of the Year in 1987 and Arizona State High School Coach of the Year in 1989.  Tim coached Olympian Misty Hyman as an age grouper at the Arizona Sports Ranch before heading to Mission Viejo in California for three years.  There he coached Olympian Ron Karnaugh for three years.  He has been a National Select Camp Assistant coach as well as TAGS Committee Chairman.  Tim was the Gulf Age Group Coach of the Year in 1995.  In the summer of 2002, Coach Tim's National Group placed 3rd overall at the National Club Swimming Association Junior National Meet in Boca Raton, FL.  Tim was named Coach of the Meet and later named Coach of the Year by the National Club Swimming Coaches Assoc.  In 2003, his women's national team placed 2nd at the long course Jr. Nationals and combined with the TWST men for an overall 2nd place team finish.  In the summer of 2004, Coach Tim's women won the Jr. National Long Course Championship in California and again combined for a 3rd place overall team finish.  Tim was named Coach of the Meet.  A month later, the Gulf honored Tim as Senior Coach of the Year for 2003-04.

 

Asst. Head Coach 
Scott McFarland

Coach Scott joined TWST in 2001.  He's been coaching since 1975, having coached at the Arizona Sports Ranch where he worked with Olympic Butterfly Champion Misty Hyman.  Scott spent four years coaching with the Mission Viejo Nadadores and he also has four years of college coaching experience with a Division II school.  Scott swam and played water polo for the University of Idaho.  Coach Scott trains many of the senior swimmers, sharing his wealth of swimming expertise.

 

 

Head Age Group Coach      Shana Trabona

Coach Shana has over twenty-two years of coaching experience.  Prior to joining TWST in 1992, Shana had coached in Baton Rouge with the Bengal Tigers Aquatic Club and then ATEX here in the Gulf.  Coach Shana was a Jr. Nationals Qualifier and swam for LSU.  Shana was voted the 1998 TSA Age Group Coach of the Year.  In 2002, Shana was named Gulf Age Group Coach of the Year as well as Coach of the Year by the American Swimming Coaches Assoc. for Gulf Coaches.  Coach Shana trains swimmers in the 9-15 yr old range and many of her swimmers have achieved T16 times. Coach Shana has also coached age groupers to Gulf, State, and Tags Records as well as National Records.

 

Age Group Coach  
Brad Radford

Coach Brad grew up in The Woodlands as a TWST swimmer from 1989-1997.  After graduating high school, Brad attended Delta State University in Mississippi where he swam all four years.  He was a 200 fly specialist and earned All-American honors as well as NCAA Finalist his senior year.  Brad still holds the pool record in the 200 fly at Delta State.  Upon graduation, Brad coached at DSU for a year in the college program.  He then coached club swimming in Mississippi for another two plus years and was in charge of the entire program.  Brad married a former TWST swimmer and just recently joined our team in the fall of 2004.  Brad works with the pre-level state swimmers aged 9-13.