Southeastern Swim Club
-Coaching Staff-
 Andy Pedersen apedersen@hse.k12.in.us
-Head Coach
-Senior Head Coach
Andy Pedersen has been the Head Coach for Southeastern Swim Club since 1994. During his tenure, SSC has grown from a local team to a regional powerhouse. Coach Pedersen also serves as the Head Coach of the Hamilton Southeastern High School Boys and Girls Teams. While at HSE and SSC, Coach Pedersen has been recognized as the National Coach of the Year once, State Coach of the Year several times and also is a recipient of the Jim Clark Award given by Indiana Swimming to its top coach. Coach Pedersen has many accomplishments that he is proud of, but one highlight that stands out above many others is the program’s track record with regard to sending athletes on to the collegiate ranks. Since 1995, over 50 HSE/SSC graduates have been elected college team captains which is an amazing stat. Another stat that Coach Pedersen is extremely proud of is his privilege to lead the HSE/SSC Staff that has over 200 years of combined coaching experience. There are great things going on here at Southeastern and it is going to keep on moving in that direction for a long time!
 Heather Streett hstreett@gmail.com
-Flying Fish Head Coach
-Stingray Head Coach
-Recruiting Director
Heather has been with SSC for seventeen years and begins her 21st year in coaching. Heather is ASCA Level 3 certified and is the head coach for the Flying Fish and Stingrays. In addition to coaching, she is the Director of Recruitment for Southeastern Swim Club, the Assistant Director of the Southeastern Swim School and daytime instructor for the Southeastern Swim School. Over the course of her coaching career with Southeastern Swim Club, she has worked with many athletes who have gone on to have great success on the USA Swimming National and Collegiate level.
Heather is a graduate of DePauw University with a degree in Physical Education. She also minored in Aquatics, Sports Science and Sports Management. She has received certifications from the American Red Cross as a Lifeguard Instructor, Water Safety Instructor, and Adapted Aquatics Instructor. She also possesses certification in American Red Cross CPR, First Aid and Safety Training for Swim Coaches. She spent three years as the Aquatics Director on the campus of the Indiana School for the Blind. During her time at the Indiana School for the Blind, she assisted the Physical Education Department and ISB Coaching staff with adaptations for children with visual impairment/blindness and other disabilities in their programming of daily physical education classes for children ages 3-18 and swim team practices.
Heather has coached many different levels from the beginning swimmer to serving as a High School Head Coach at Greencastle High School. She began her coaching career at Azionaqua Swim Club in Zionsville and led 90+ swimmers to a 2nd place finish in their conference as a first-year coach. As the Head Coach at Greencastle High School, she led 10 swimmers to a third place finish at their IHSAA Sectional Meet. She also was Co-Head Coach at Roncalli High School. While coaching at Roncalli, she led two swimmers to the IHSAA State Championship Meet.
Heather has been involved with competitive swimming for 34 years, both as a coach and athlete. She swam for Zionsville Swim Club for 12+ years and was a 4-year Varsity High School letter winner at Zionsville Community High School. During her high school swimming career, she was Sectional Champion in multiple individual events and competed at the IHSAA High School State Championships. She was a member of the DePauw University swim team during her freshman year of college where she swam distance freestyle and butterfly events.
During the summer months, she is also the Head Swim Coach for the Windermere Dolphins located in Fishers, Indiana. Heather and her husband, Kenny, live in Fishers with their son, Keegan and daughter, Harper . Keegan is also a member of the Southeastern Swim Club, where he participates in the Blue-Runners group. They also share their home with Stella (black lab-mix who came to us as an "emergency foster" rescue- she had us at HELLO). In her spare time- Heather enjoys spending time with family and friends, scrapbooking and traveling.
 Alex Emerson (Cubby) jaemers@gmail.com
-Senior Assistant Coach
Coach Alex, also known as Cubby, is in his second year of coaching for Southeastern Swim Club. Alex graduated from Hamilton Southeastern High School in 2003, where he swam for HSE and Southeastern Swim Club. He continued his swimming career at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in 2007 with a degree in English. He remained in Atlanta unti l2011, when he moved back to Indiana and began coaching with Southeastern. He is very excited to be back with his home club and carrying on the Southeastern tradition with the Barracuda and Senior training groups.
Out of the pool, Alex is pursuing his law degree at Indiana University’s McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis.
Matt Kruse coachmskruse@gmail.com
-Dolphins Head Coach
-Assistant Barracudas Coach
-Assistant Blue-Runners Coach
Coach Matt is beginning his second season of coaching with SSC. He has recently completed an internship with SSC where he helped coach all age groups and help plan for the 2012 Long Course State Championships.
He graduated from Hamilton Southeastern High School where he had a successful swimming career. He was part of the 2007 Boys IHSAA State Championship Team and the 2008 Boys IHSAA State Runner- UP Team.
After High School, Matt attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he continued his swimming career. During this time he was the assistant coach for the Marion Marlins Community Swim Club.
 Mindy Hertzler coachmindy11@yahoo.com
-Barracudas Head Coach
-Senior Assistant Coach
Coach Mindy is beginning her 8th year of coaching at SSC and Hamilton Southeastern High School. She has 13 years of high school and club coaching experience, including 2 years as a club coach at Raider Aquatics in West Lafayette, Indiana and 6 years as the head club coach of Twin Lakes Area Aquatics in Monticello, Indiana. She also coached at Delphi High School.
Mindy is an ASCA Level 3 coach, and has been selected as a Team Indiana Quad Coach and Chick Newell Senior Elite Training Camp Coach, and a staff member of Team Indiana Olympic Training Camp in Colorado, Springs. While in Monticello she was voted communities favorite coach through the Monticello Herald Journal. She has coached numerous Zone and Quad qualifiers, Zone Champion, Age Group State Champions and State Finalists, a Junior National and a U.S. Open qualifier prior to coming to SSC.
Mindy lives in Noblesville with her husband D.J. and daughter Aubrey who swims for University of Arkansas. She also has a son Jeff, a daughter Whitney and a grandson Ashton.
Jeanne Tracy jean_tracy@att.net
-Sharks Head Coach
Jeanne started age group swimming as an eight year old in New Jersey/Philadelphia area and developed a passion for swimming. She later swam for the Vesper Swim Club in Philadelphia and achieved her personal goal of qualifying and swimming at Senior Nationals at age 18. Jeanne came to Indiana to attend Anderson University and started coaching swimming in Anderson. She enjoyed coaching and swimming with the age group program. Through the years she has been a head coach for age group, summer clubs, middle school, and high schools. She has been a part of coaching many age group and high school swimmers to individual, relay, and high school championships. Jeanne has worked with all ages and abilities and has a goal to bring out the best in each swimmer, and instill a passion for swimming. This will be the start of Jeanne's 7th year at Southeastern Swim Team. She also is middle school physical education teacher at Highland Junior High School in Anderson.
Dave Dunbar dunbard@fishers.in.us
-Senior Assistant Coach
-Age Group Competitive Team Director
Coach Dan Johnson brought Dave to the Royals in 1993 after coaching in Lawrence for 7 years. He’s been coaching High School swimming since 1985. While still coaching the Seniors and High School team; Dave assists the Age Group Competitive Teams. Coach Dunbar buys 100% into the saying, “it takes a village to raise a child”. He loves being a part of the SSC family and doing what he can to help in any way. He continues to coach out of his passion for what the sport brings out in our athletes. Not only the accomplishments in the pool but more importantly how the sport develops our children. The lessons learned from hard work, discipline and dedication while having fun shows our children what it takes to succeed in obtaining life’s goals. He’s extremely proud of his daughter Bailey, a Fishers Jr. High student who cheers for Indiana Elite. Dave’s wife Vicky works for the Hamilton County Sheriff’s department and is very supportive of the hours put in at the pool after working his full time job as a Captain with the Fishers Police Dept.
Joel Elber joel.elber@gmail.com
-Blue-Runners Head Coach
-Senior Assistant Coach
Joel Elber began his swimming career at 8 years old for a small swim club in Brunswick, just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. There he swam for Brunswick High School where he was a 3 sport athlete in swimming, baseball and tennis. He then accepted a scholarship to The Ohio State University where he swam for 4 years and graduated with a degree in physiology. In 2010 he swam professionally at the center for excellence Olympic training cite in Charlotte, North Carolina to pursue his Olympic dream. His swimming career was cut short with a shoulder injury. Some of his accomplishments include 5- time high school All-American, 8-time Brunswick High school record holder, 3-year Ohio State team captain, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Trials qualifier, 7-time NCAA All-American, 3- year scholar athlete, 2010 Big Ten sportsmanship award winner, former Ohio State school record holder, Big Ten Champion.
Out of the pool Joel started coaching in high school with the local summer league team and continued to coach throughout college including, summer league, private lessons, and Ohio State Swim Club. He was the head North 9-10 year old coach for SwimMAC as well as the Senior 1 assistant.This is Joel’s second year here at Southeastern Swim Club.
Danielle Birk
-Flying Fish Assistant Coach
-Stingray Assistant Coach
Kristen Kohl klkoh12@gmail.com
-Flying Fish Assistant Coach
-Stingray Assistant Coach
I started my swimming career as a flying fish for SSC at the age of 8 and swam until I graduated high school. I was part of the club team as well as the high school team. It was a great time and experience for me and I love being a part of it again.
Swimming was such a huge part of my youth and once the opportunity to be back in the pool was there, I knew that I could not pass it up. Swimming made such a big difference in my life and I am so glad that I can do the same for the team now.
I gradutated from the Kelley School of Business at IU in Bloomington. I worked as a Manager for Dick's Sporting Goods for a little over a year and now am a Project Manger for Sign Craft Industries.
During my free time, I love to spend time with my family and friends as well as working out, shopping, and relaxing.
Kylene Wilder hislead4life@yahoo.com
-Flying Fish Assistant Coach
Kylene began swimming at the age of 9 for Pendleton Swim Club then began swimming for Southeastern Swim Club at age 11 and decided to focus on her studies at age 18. While swimming for Pendleton Swim Club at age 9 Kylene received the most valuable swimmer award. While swimming for SSC she was on the first place medley relay team as well as receiving 4th and 7th place personal medals at state in breaststroke. Hamilton Southeastern has allowed Kylene to be a part of three state-runner-up teams, recipient of the Mental Attitude Award accompanied by a four year varsity letter.
Kylene came to coach at SSC because she wanted to be a part of helping younger kids become better swimmers and encourage stronger character. Kylene felt very at home while swimming for SSC and is especially excited to pass down what she has learned by coaching.
Kylene is a graduate of Anderson University Social Work program and is currently pursuing her MBA through Liberty University online. Kylene works as a Juvenile Probation Officer for Hamilton County. In her free time, Kylene can be found studying, working out or running. She enjoys getting to know others and spending time with her friends and family.
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