Head Coach Mike Cunningham
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Coach Mike holds a B.S. in Physical Education and coaching from Western Illinois University. He is a level two ASCA swim coach, and a fully certified USA swimming coach. He has coached numerous regional, age group state, and senior qualifiers in his previous 15 years coaching experience. He was also the 13-18 Zone coach for 2005. Since starting Midway Aquatics in 2005 the club has grown from 25 swimmers to 80, and developed several regional and age group state qualifiers. Along with his love of swimming, he enjoys wakeboarding, snowboarding, and spending time with his children.
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Head Age Group Assistant Coach Laura Thomas
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Laura Thomas is currently a student at the University of Chicago studying Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She has been coaching with Midway Aquatics since September 2007 and looks forward to continuing with the club.
While growing up outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she swam with YMCA, USA and high school swim teams. Laura’s favorite to swim is butterfly, but her favorite stroke to teach is breaststroke.
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Assistant Developmental Coach Mike Koerner
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Mike Koerner is a retired Naval Officer who served as both a Cryptologic and Surface Warfare Officer for over 20 years. While in Navy, he served three years as an Physical Training Instructor where his duties included development and training of Naval Aircrew Candidates for swimming and deep water survival.
A native of West Des Moines, IA, he began his swimming career at age 6 and competed as an AAU and USS age-group swimmer earning both regional and national qualifications as a Sprint Freestyler. He continued his career as a high school swimmer where he earned All-American honors as a high school senior, three State top 10 awards while helping Valley High School to the State Swimming Championship in 1984. He was recruited and swam all four years for the University of Northern Iowa, leading the team as one of the co-captains his senior year while also earning a BA in Criminology and minor in History.
When he is not coaching Mike enjoys training and competing in triathlons while still swimming and competing as a member of the Chicago Blue Dolphins Masters swim program.
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