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Coaching Staff

HEAD SENIOR COACH

Kevin O'Shea

Kevin’s coaching career spans three decades working with swimmers at all levels including NCAA Division I, USA, YMCA, High School, and Summer League. As head coach of the Boise YMCA Swim Team and the Bellevue Eastside Swim Team, he developed National and Junior National level swimmers and placed swimmers on United States National teams. His teams placed in the Top Ten at both the Region 12 Senior Championships and the National YMCA Championships. Kevin was selected to be a member of the coaching staff for the 1987 USOC Olympic Festival and the 1990 USA Swimming Select Camp at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Kevin received the American Swimming Coaches Association Award of Excellence in 1982, 1985, and 1989.

Kevin coaches the Senior and High School groups.

HEAD AGE GROUP COACH
         

Grace Wong

Grace started with Chinook in early 1997 as a Novice and Developmental coach, and now works primarily with the Sectional and Blue groups.  Grace became Chinook's head age group coach in 2005.  Grace started coaching in the mid-90s for the Lindbergh High School girls' and boys' teams.  Grace has developed sectional- and zone-level swimmers, and has been a member of two PNS All-Star coaching staff.  She has also served on the PNS Board of Directors.  Grace swam competitively for Renton Area Aquatics, which after some mergers eventually became part of Chinook. Grace graduated with a BA from the University of Puget Sound and a MA from Seattle University.

Grace coaches the Renton Sectional and Blue groups. 

       

ASSISTANT COACHES

 Jeremiah Job

LeAnne McClaskey

Jane Rixe

Erin Schulze