Coaches Bio & Photo
Christian Doud
Co- Owner & Co- Head Coach
Senior Prep & Senior Group
Audrey Moore & Tysons Sport and Health
cdoud@machineaquatics.com
Coach
Doud is a native Washingtonian having been born and raised inArlington
County and is now a resident of the City of Fairfax. He swam summer
league, high school and USS in the area before going to college in
South Carolina where he was a firefighter.
Coach
Doud spent 4 years as Head Age Group Coach at two Potomac Valley Clubs
before founding Machine Aquatics with partner Dan Jacobs.
Daniel Jacobs, II
Co- Owner & Co- Head Coach
Age Group/ Advance Age Group/ Senior Prep & Senior group
Oakmarr Rec. & The Madeira School
dan@machineaquatics.com
PVS Board of Directors - Coaches Representative 2005- Present
PVS Zone Assistant Head Coach- 2004
PVS Zone Assistant Coach- 4 Terms
USA Swimming Coach- 15 Years
I
started swimming when I was 4 years old for my neighborhood team, the
Marlbank Mudtoads in Yorktown, VA. I swam AAU/USS for Coast Guard Blue
Dolphins in Yorktown, VA until the age of fourteen when I moved to
Northern Virginia. Where I swam for Solotar, Oakton High School and The
Vienna Aquatic Club (VAC) GATORS. I started coaching in 1985 as a
developmental assistant at VAC and assistant coached there until I
graduated from Oakton in 1986.
I started Machine Aquatics in 2001 with Christian Doud and strive to be the best coach on the planet. I will never stop learning to be a better coach. I am married to my best friend and partner Paris Jacobs. We have two beautiful children, Lilly and Daniel. I love our sport that has given me so much throughout my life and love to coach.
Paris Jacobs
Team Manager
paris@machineaquatics.com
NVSL Coach 10 years- Fox Mill Woods 2003- 2009
USA Swimming coach 10 years-
ASCA Level 2
Original Machine Coach- 2001- Present
USA Swimming National Team Staff- 2006- Present
Team Manager for USA National Junior Team 2008- Melbourne Australia
Team Manger Girls USA Swimming National Select Camp- 2007
Team Manager Girls USA Swimming Zone Select Camp- 2006
PVS Zone Team Manager- 2004- 2007
USA Swimming Eastern Zone Board of Directors- Age Group Chair (Non- Coach) 2008- Current
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia. I grew up swimming for Dynamo Swim Club, one of the top 5 teams in the country. I began my coaching career in Atlanta at my summer league pool as an assistant coach. I moved to the Northern Virginia area in 1993 attending boarding school. I attended Georgetown University & George Mason University studying Business.
In 2001, I married Dan Jacobs, we have 2 children, Lillyan (7) & Daniel, III (5)
Blair Piddington
Head Age Group Site Coach-
Tysons Sport and Health
Oakmarr Rec. Center
blair@machineaquatics.com
When I was 5 years old I was watching my brother swim in a meet at VAC and decided I could to it too. I jumped in wearing huge shorts and no goggles and did pretty well, since then I was hooked. I swam at VAC till I was too old and also swam USS for many years. I then took my career to George Mason where I swam for four years. My best strokes were the 100 and 200 breaststroke, and also swam a little I.M.
I started my coaching career at VAC in 2002, and currently still coach there. I love summer league for the competitive and team atmosphere shared by swimmers ages 5 through 18. I've been coaching at Machine since 2003 and it is my full time job. I started coaching mainly micro machines, but now coach all ages. I am a head site coach at the Tysons Sport and Health club and am coaching 12 practices this year. I work mainly with age group and advanced age group swimmers, but also help out seniors and micro machines. I love coaching and working with children of all ages.
Other sports I played growing up include football, basketball, wrestling, soccer, and i also pole vaulted for Oakton High School, which was awesome.
Rod Montrie
Advance Age Group/ Senior Prep Coach
The Madeira School
Monday- Friday 4:30 – 6:15 pm
Saturday 7:30 – 10:00 am
Born and raised in Bethesda, MD, I grew up swimming summer league and USS with M.A.C. I started coaching during my college summers at Mohican Pool. After graduating from the University of Maryland I spent five years teaching before coaching full time.
I believe that kids swim their fastest when they are having fun. Hard works puts you in the position to be successful but the joy of racing is what makes this sport great. I am incredibly excited to part of Machine Aquatics.
29 years: USS club coaching with Sea Devil Swimming.
15 years: Swimming Professional at the Chevy Chase Club.
18 years: Director of Aquatics at the Madeira School, McLean, VA
Two terms: PVS Distance Coordinator
Four-time Virginia State Independent Schools Coach of the Year
2007 Recipient of the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association's David H. Robertson Award for Coaching Excellence
Breanne Smith
Age Group Coach
The Madeira School
T, TH 5:45- 7:30pm
breanne@machineaquatics.com
Born and raised in Arlington, I started swimming at age 5 for Overlee. Since then, I've been involved in swimming and coaching at almost every level. After graduating from Overlee I was head coach at High Point Pool from 2001-2004 and went on to coach at Hamlet from 2005-2008. I coached at McLean High School for two seasons and after graduating from George Mason University coached 3 years full time for a PVS club. I was the lead assistant coach at Catholic University (D III) from 2006-2008.
My love for coaching and working with kids of all ages led me to get my Master's Degree in Education from Marymount University in 2007. I currently work full-time as a math teacher at George Mason High School in Falls Church. I look forward to getting back on the deck and working with Machine!
Christine Filak
Age Group Coach
Tysons Sport & Health-
M-TH 7:15- 8:45pm
Oakmarr Rec. Center-
Saturday 5:30- 8:00am
Christine@machineaquatics.com
Christine grew up in the area and was both a swimmer and coach for the Little Rocky Run Stingrays. I was a competitive swimmer throughout high school and received a swimming scholarship at James Madison University. I was a captain of the JMU women’s swim team for three years, broke records in both the 100 and 200 backstroke, and was a part of several record breaking relays.
She received her undergraduate degree in health science with a premed concentration. I also received got graduate degree at JMU in exercise physiology where she took classes on human performance and progressive training. Currently I am applying to dental school and am working in an office in Centreville VA. I am enthusiastic about being a part of Machine Aquatics and looks forward to helping the swimmers improve throughout the season.
Hope Megonigal
Micro Machine & Age Group Coach
Providence Rec. Center-
Tuesday & Thursday 7:45- 9:00pm
Oakmarr Rec. Center-
Saturday- 7:45- 9:00AM
hope@machineaquatics.com
Hope started swimming at age 5.Hope went on to swim at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA where she earned a Degree of Science in Mechanical Enginerring. Hope also complete her Masters studies earning a Degree in Physiology, Kinesiology and Nutrition.
In 2005, Hope took over running the NVSL winter team for the Vienna Gatrors.
Hope is returning this year for her 4th season with Machine.
Machine Masters & Senior Prep/ Senior Coach
Oakmarr Rec. Center
Monday- Friday - Machine Masters
4:40- 6:25 AM
Monday, Wednesday & Friday
6:45- 8:00am
Monday- Friday 3:00- 5:00 PM
Saturday-5:30- 9:00AM
billy@machineaquatics.com
Billy started swimming at the age of 11 for Chantilly Country Club where he swam until the age of 18. Billy currently still holds pool records at Chantilly. He swam for four years at Chantilly HS before moving on to Fairmont State College where he swam for 4 years. Billy graduated with a double major in Bus. Management and Marketing.
After college Billy coached for 2 different PVS teams, each team for 3 years. In addition to coaching for USS clubs, Billy has also coached High School Swimming at Woodson High School in Fairfax, VA.
This past summer Billy started coaching for Machine Masters. He has enjoyed working with the other coaches and learning new techniques. Billy really believes he has found a great home with Machine Aquatics and look forward to growing with the team.
Billy will be a senior/senior prep coach at Oak Marr.
Billy is married with a son and also works at Life Time Fitness in Centreville.
Josh Travis
Age Group Coach-
Site Coach Madeira
Oakmarr Rec. Center
Monday- Friday
4:40- 6:25AM
Monday, Wednesday & Friday-
4:40- 6:25am
Monday- 1:45- 3:30PM
Saturday-
5:30- 9:00AM
The Maderia School-
Monday- Friday-
All workouts from 3:30- 7:30PM
josh@machineaquatics.com
Josh started his swimming career at a very young age. Josh grew up swimming for the Vienna Aquatic Gators, Fairfax High School, YORK Swim Club and Machine Aquatics.
Josh originally joined the Machine staff in 2003, where he worked as a coaching assistant for two season. In 2008, Josh returned to the Machine Family after coaching for the local USA Swimming club FAST.
During the 2008 season, Josh worked as a coaching assistant to Coach Dan Jacobs. This season Josh will be one of our full time staff where he will coach at Oakmarr and Madeira- Monday- Friday.
In Josh's spare time he likes to play music with his band and do any activities outdoors.
Lynn Ann Nickley
Micro- Machine & Age Group Coach
Audrey Moore Rec. Center
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
4:15- 5:45pm
lynnann@machineaquatics.com
Lynn Ann Nickley has extremely fond memories from her summers when she swam in the NVSL as a North Springfield Dolphin. She fell in love with the sport and was soon swimming whenever she could. She was a member of the state championship swim team at Thomas Jefferson High School where her favorite strokes were freestyle and backstroke.
In college (JMU) she became WSI certified, and became passionate about teaching others to swim. She worked three summers in the early 80's as an assistant coach and head coach for her childhood team. Fifteen years later she found herself back at the swimming pool with her own sons. She started coaching in the NVSL again in 1999.
In the summer of 2003 she met Paris Jacobs and decided that she and her sons would join the fabulous family of Machine. Besides coaching and swimming, Lynn Ann enjoys spending time with her husband and three sons.
Mitch Dalton
Senior Prep & Senior Coach
Tysons Sport & Health-
Monday- Thursday 7:15- 8:45pm
mitch@machineaquatics.com
Mitch
is entering his third year with Machine after graduating from James
Madison, where he swam for four years and was team captain in his
senior year. He also held top-10 school records in four events. Mitch
served as assistant coach to the JMU women's team for the 2007-2008
season, where the women broke nine school records.
Mitch
grew up swimming in Australia under Australian olympic coaches Greg
Hodge and John Carew. After moving to America he began swimming in the
NVSL with the Tuckahoe Tigers where he would later coach for two years.
In 2004 Mitch co-head coached (with Breanne Smith) at another NVSL team, the Hamlet Green Feet. During Mitch and Breanne's time at Hamlet the team climbed up to Division I where they remain today.
Mitch is happy and excited to be coaching at Machine and looks forwardto a great year.
Grady Hough
Age Group/ Senior Prep Coach
Tysons Sport & Health
Tuesday & Thursday- 3:00- 5:00PM
Tuesday & Thursday 4:15- 5:45 PM
Tuesday & Thursday 7:15- 8:45 PM
grady@machineaquatics.com
Grady Hough coached for The FISH Swim Team for 8 years year working with the Advanced Age Group, Terrific Fish and the Mini-Fish. He is a Registered Nurse working at Inova Fairfax Hospital on the Vascular Access Team. Coach Grady Hough was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Graphic Design. Go Vols! He spent nearly a decade in television and radio production shooting TV commercials featuring sports stars Tony Dorsett, Jim Kelly, Troy Aikman, Grant Hill and others.
Grady then spent a couple of years working with special needs kindergarten and pre-school children before returning to Nursing School at Northern VA Community College. He currently works as a Registered Nurse placing PICC line catheters for patients with long term antibiotic or chemotherapy needs.
Coach Grady started competitive swimming when he was 6 and swam for the Knoxville Swimming Association which later became Pilot Aquatic Club. He swam through his high school years and coached summer league and high school teams while in college. He continues to train and compete in area triathlons and open water races. He will be racing in the Nation’s Triathlon in Washington, DC this summer.
Grady hopes that his swimmers will begin to understand the concepts of self-discipline, self-motivation and self-respect.
Teri Harper
Head Developmental Coach
Tysons Sport & Health-
Monday & Wednesday 4:15- 5:45pm
teriharper@machineaquatics.com
NVSL Swimmer since 8 & Under
NVSL Coach for 10 years
USA Swimming Coach 10 years
Original Machine Aquatics Coach 2001-Present
Stroke Technique Specialist
Bachelor Degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin/ Madison
Graduate Degree in Landscape Architecture - Virginia Tech.
Mother of Three
Age Group/ Senior Prep Coach
The Madeira School-
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
7:00- 8:45PM
jeff@machineaquatics.com
USS Coach- 10 years
HACC Senior/ Senior Prep- 2000-2005
HACC Head Age Group- 2003-2005
Zone Coach (10 & U) - spring 2005
Machine Senior Prep/Age Group- 2005-2007
Machine Substitute- 2008
Summer League Coach (NVSL, HSL) - 19 years
Hiddenbrook 8 & U Coach (NVSL) - 1991-1992
Four Seasons Head Coach (HSL) - 1993-2001
Herndon Swim Club Head Coach (NVSL) - 2002-2005
Fairfax Station Head Coach (NVSL) - 2006-present
High School Coach (Herndon High) - 4 years
Head Coach- 2000-2004
I
learned to swim in 1980 from NCAA All-American Rick Hyser with the
Upper Merion Marlins, in Pa. He introduced me to swimming fly before I
could even make it across the pool in free. The rest of my swimming
career my fly was faster than my free☺ He showed a love for swimming
that I took with me for the rest of my career and is what I love to
share with all I coach and coach with. My swimming went to the next
level when I moved to Va. in 1988. I swam for Solotar, York, and
HACC. I swam at O’Connell and Herndon High School and graduated in
1994. I finished my swimming career after my freshman year at West
Chester University due to a shoulder injury.
I
started coaching in the summer as an 8 & under coach at Hiddenbrook
as a 15 year old and never looked back, I currently am the Head Coach
of the Fairfax Station Flyers.
I
graduated from West Chester University with a BS in Elementary
Education. I have been teaching in Fairfax County for 10 years (3yrs at
Floris ES, 2 yrs at Oak Hill ES, and 5yrs at Spring Hill ES) I have
taught 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. I currently teach 6th grade Math
at Spring Hill.
I currently live in Vienna with my family (my wonderful wife Debbie and our 2 ½ daughter.)
Assistant Coach- Age Group/ Senior Prep
Oakmarr Rec. Center
Monday, Wednesday & Friday-
6:$5- 8:00am
Monday - Friday-
3:00- 5:00PM
The Madeira School-
M,W,Th- 7:00- 8:45pm
brent@machineaquatics.com
Information will be posted soon.
Jonathan Dee- "JD"
Coaching Assistant
Oakmarr Rec. Center-
Monday 1:45- 3:30pm
Saturday 7:45- 9:00am
The Madeira School
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday-
Developmental 4:15- 5:45pm
Information will be posted soon.
Coaching Assistant- Developmental & Age Group Program
Tysons Sport & Health
The Madiera School
Oakmarr Rec. Center
marybeth@machineaquatics.com
Information will be posted soon.
Coaching Assistant-
Tysons Sport and Health-
Monday- Friday-
4:15- 5:45PM
The Madeira School-
Saturday
7:30- 10:00AM
damian@machineaquatics.com
Information will be posted soon.
Coaching Assitant-
Audrey Moore Rec. Center
Monday, Wednesday, Friday-
4:40- 6:25am
Tuesday & Thursday-
3:00- 5:30pm
Saturday-
5:45- 7:15am
Tuckahoe
Tuesday & Thursday-
4:40- 6:25am
I began swimming competitively at the age of 8 in Richmond,
VA for the Richmond Racers. At the age of 11, my family relocated to the island
of St. Lucia in the West Indies where I continued to swim. When my family first moved to St.
Lucia, the largest pool on the island was 30 ft by 15 ft.
Swimming for my generation in St. Lucia
was seriously disadvantaged but for the love of the sport, we continued to work
with what we had. I was a
consistent member of the national team, qualified for and took part in regional
meets all over the Caribbean.
St. Lucia now has the only short-course Olympic
size pool in the Eastern Caribbean and the sport has taken off in a major way. At the age of 18 I returned to the U.S.
to attend community college. I
swam for Team Elite Swim Club in Prince George’s county through my first year
back in the U.S. My strongest
strokes were Freestyle and Backstroke.
I returned to Richmond, VA in 2001 where I swam briefly for Poseidon
Swim Club. While attending
community college in Richmond, VA I began coaching ages 8-16 in the Richmond
YMCA league. During summer months
on vacation from school I would return to St. Lucia and coach the Rodney
Heights Aquatic Center Racers as well as teach learn-to-swim to children in the
national school-swim program. I
have also taught learn-to-swim to adults.
I was never a “Star” swimmer myself but I know the mechanics of the
sport. The fact that I never
reached what I consider to be my full potential in the sport has created a
drive to help any and every athlete use all resources to the maximum. Not everyone who is serious about the
sport has a proper facility to train in.
I am very happy to be a part of the Machine family and look forward to maintaining the high standards. I am a 2007 graduate of Howard University with a BBA in Finance.
