My name is Brian Thomas and I am very excited to be part of the Georgetown Swimming Family this summer as your Head Swim Coach, CPO and Private Lessons Instructor.  I started my swim career in WISC swimming 8 seasons with the Ann Arbor Country Club.  I spent my high school years swimming for Dexter High School.  At Eastern Michigan University I was able to explore new aquatic paths playing water polo on two MAC championship teams and graduating in 1999.  For the past three years I have been at Chelsea High School as both boys and girls assistant swim coach and head coach of Chelsea Girls Water Polo.  I am back at Eastern pursuing my teacher’s certification as well as a Social Studies degree to keep my History degree company.  My wife Jana and I live in Manchester and my spare time, when not studying or coaching, is spent fixing our old home in town.  I am very excited to relive all the great times I had being a swimmer in WISC and I hope to continue these memories with my new family at Georgetown Country Club.  Questions about the upcoming season?  Contact me at coachbrian@georgetowncc.org.

2008 Assistant Swim Coach

Hi, my name is Jenay Karlson and I am very pleased and excited to be Georgetown’s Assistant Swim Coach for this summer. I began competitive USS swimming when I was 11 years old and swam year round through high school.  I moved out to Ann Arbor in 1999 to join the University of Michigan Women’s Swim Team where I was fortunate enough to have competed at Big Tens, NCAAs and the 2000 Olympic Trials. During summers in college I often helped coach youth summer swim camps either at Club Wolverine or with my home team in San Diego. After undergrad I began coaching with Ann Arbor Swim Club Y (now Club Wolverine) where I ran their developmental age-group workouts, and assisted with the junior high and high school swim practices and dry land workouts. I have taken the past 3 years off from coaching to work in education and psychology research and attend graduate school.  I am currently finishing up my master’s degree at the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work in Social Policy and Evaluation.  I am looking forward to being back on the pool deck this summer to have a lot of fun with a great group of swimmers.

2008 Head Dive Coach

My name is Gretchen Plamondon, I am thrilled to be a part of GTCC this year.  I will be the diving coach as well as the pool manager.  I began my diving career as a freshman in high school and continued to dive through college at Eastern Michigan University where I developed as a diver as well as a coach.  I was the diving coach for the Novi high school girl’s team this past year and have been coaching at legacy diving for the past 3 years.  I have been a part of the WISC circuit for the past 6 years coaching at Chippewa country club.  I graduated from EMU in 2006 with a degree in physical education and health education.  I have been substitute teaching since I graduated and I am currently looking for a permanent teaching job in the Ann Arbor area.  I look forward to getting to know the families at GTCC and I know we will have an enjoyable and successful summer.  Questions about the upcoming season?  Contact me at poolmanager@georgetowncc.org.