Coaches

Coaching Staff

Michael A Koleber

Head Coach

The man behind the vision of the Nitro Swim Center realized his dream with it’s opening in June 2007. Coach Mike was an 11 time NCAA All American at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. His love for the sport is evident as well as his passion for the kids.

Tim O'Brien

National Group

Coach Tim is a Graduate of the University of Georgia in the Sport Business Program. He was a Senior National Qualifier, and spent five years as an Assistant to Head Coach Jack Bauerle at the University of Georgia, one of the country’s top NCAA programs. Coach Bauerle has been a multiple NCAA coach of the year as well as Olympic coach.

Tim is a former Head Coach of Swim Atlanta where his team grew from 70 swimmers in 1995 to over 340 in 2001. While a head coach for Swim Atlanta, the team won the team title at Junior Nationals 4 times and the team title at the American Short Course Championships 3 times. During this time, there were multiple individual and relay champions as well as numerous Scholastic All-Americans. In that time, Tim produced 42 Junior National, 20 Senior National, and 8 Olympic Trial Qualifiers, as well as numerous Top 16 Swimmers, and 4 state records. Tim had over 55 of his swimmers move on to swim in college (Div. I, II or III). He coached at numerous camps and clinics including United Swim Clinics, Jack Bauerle Bulldog Swim Camp, and National Select Camps at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Tim also worked technical support for the 1995 Pan Pacific Games and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Part of Tim’s philosophy is to help all his swimmers to achieve their maximum potential. He believes in an overall, comprehensive approach that includes weights and dryland, attending to physiological and nutritional needs, as well as intensive pool training. Tim likes his swimmers to be well balanced academically, athletically, and socially. Training swimmers for today as well as their future, both in and out of the pool is a common theme with Tim. Many of Tim’s summer training trips are visits to college campuses to help explore future options and help swimmers to understand what opportunities await them if they decide to keep swimming after their age group careers.

Greg Davis

Age Group Coach

Although Coach Greg wasn’t born in Texas he got here as soon as he heard of Coach Mike’s plan for the Nitro Swim Center. Greg moved with his wife, Melissa to Austin in Aug. 2005 and began assisting Coach Mike in growing the foundation that would become the Nitro swim team. Competitive swimming was very much a part of life for Greg and his family from about the age of 7. He is a graduate of UC Davis, where he swam Breaststroke and IM, helping the team to a 3^rd place NCAA finish in 1993. Other highlights include All-American 16 times, and team captain.

The coaching bug hit early with his first job in 1989 as a lessons teacher. Then from 1993-1996 he headed the Sutter Lawn summer team in the very competitive Sacramento Swim League. The SL team won 2 Championships and 4 League Records still exist today from that era. After a brief hiatus from swimming, Greg went to the Pacific Athletic Club (Redwood City, CA) as the Head Masters, Summer League, and Age Group Coach from 1998-2001. Greg led PAC to 2 summer League Championships and the team’s first AAA+ performances.

Greg’s first USA-S Head Coach position was for the Burlingame Aquatic Club from 2001-2005. The team grew from 70 to 170 members, produced numerous LSC Top-10 performances, High School All-Americans, several collegiate scholarships in water polo and swimming and even developed a plan to launch a swim school much like Nitro’s. Concurrently, he was asked to coach USA-S Age Group Select Camps and Zone All Star Teams in addition to managing the selection and travel plans for the Zone All-Star coaches and swimmers. On Oct. 11, 2005 9-year-old Johnny Wilson, BAC swimmer, became the youngest person to swim the San Francisco Bay from the legendary Alcatraz island to raise $30K for charity.

Greg derives his inspiration from his swimmers. He uses sound, comprehensive methods to teach and train swimmers, placing an emphasis on efficiency and consistency in practice. With Nitro Greg has coached several STAGS Champions, TAGS Champions, Sectionals Qualifiers, Jr Nationals Qualifiers, USA-S Top-20, Top-10 and Top-2 ranked swimmers.

Greg is the lead coach of the Age Group squad, and assists with other groups such as Gold, Silver, Bronze, Intro. Melissa and Greg have just had a son named Roman G born on May 27 2009!

Kristyn Evans

Age Group Coach

Coach Kristyn was formerly the Head Assistant Coach with the Hoover Blue Thunder Swim Team, just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. There she coached a number of swimmers who qualified for the Southeastern Swimming Championship as well the Alabama State High School Meet. At HBT, her focus was with the 14 and under age group and their progression through the program. Prior to coaching with HBT, Coach Kristyn was the Head Coach/Owner of PUMA Aquatic Team in San Luis Obispo, CA.

Coach Kristyn was born and raised in Maine, where she was a two time Maine High School State Champion and State record holder. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN where she competed and coached with Excel Aquatics. Coach Kristyn enjoys working with swimmers of all ages and loves to see their progression through the sport as they age. She believes in swimming correctly before swimming fast, and most importantly a love for the sport. She has been married to her husband Rob for 6 years, and they have one cat and two dogs.

Cindy Moore

Age Group Coach

Cindy grew up playing soccer and swimming summer league in northern California. She played high school soccer and softball for Presentation in San Jose. She opted to play softball for her Junior College and went on to swim for the Santa Clara Swim Club. For her last year of eligibility she swam for the NCAA Division I University of Nevada in Reno. She then returned to soccer to play in the USISL W-league for the Reno Lady Rattlers. At this time she also started coaching for the Sparks High School Railroaders. After completing her Bachelor of Science in Recreation Services she moved to Austin. Here she continued playing and coaching soccer. She played in the Zilker Premier league for Arsenal as well as the USISL W-league Austin Lady Lonestars. She started coaching locally with the Warriors which then became the Lonestar soccer club. She took her teams to many state championship tournaments. In 2006 became the state champions. She has left coaching soccer to follow her first love of coaching swimming.

She also has her Masters of Science in Recreation and Leisure Services from Texas State University in San Marcos.
She has just recently gotten married to Kevin and they have 2 dogs Copa and Dale Jr.