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Swim Lesson Students (and FAMILY) Public Swim for Free!
Practice is essential to mastering any new skill and swimming is no exception. For this reason, we have adopted a new policy regarding the free practice swims given to all students enrolled in AMG Swim School.
Students signing up for at least two swim lessons per week now receive unlimited free public swimming during the month of their enrollment. Just present your valid practice card to a cashier during public swim. (Students enrolling in swim lessons one day per week receive two free public swims).
We hope students will take this opportunity to practice the skills they are learning during class and enjoy having fun in the water.
For practice tips, check out the AMG Swim School website at www.amgswimschool.com or speak with your swim instructor.
New managers at Kent and Mt. Rainier
Change is part of our lives, it isn't any different with pool management. For the last year, Keith Ure has been an outstanding manager for the Kent Meridian and Mt. Rainier pools. Keith was offered an opportunity for personal and career growth and he has decided to leave AMG and go to work at a large local aerospace firm. AMG offers congratulations to Keith, he will do well in whatever he pursues. A senior AMG manager: "We'll miss Keith but recognize that some opportunities are too good to pass up - we are thankful we had him as long as we did and we owe him a great debt for his services". Over the course of the last year Keith's accomplishments include setting up the management and managing the change from King County to AMG for the Mt. Rainier pool, reorganizing and suffering through all of the KM pool mechanical and operational issues, formulating an employee handbook for AMG (not a small task we assure you), establishing water exercise programs that lead the county in terms of patron loyalty, and formulating a management structure and organization at both pools.
With Keith leaving, we have two new arrivals: Ash Milad (who will manage KM) and Ken Spenser (who will manage MR). These two experienced pool managers bring a significant amount of experience in the sport of swimming and are also King Aquatic Club coaches. Here is a little more on each of our new managers:
Ash
Milad comes to us from the Washington D.C. area where he has been coaching on
the U.S.S. level since his early years in college. Ash was born and raised in
Northern Virginia and graduated from Penn State. At Penn State he coached age
groupers with the State College Area YMCA and help found the Nittany Lion
Aquatic Club.
Upon graduation, Ash returned to Northern Virginia and worked as Director of Managment for NVPools, Inc. While working for NVPools Ash coached for the York Swim Club and most recently Machine Aquatics and George Mason University. He also has extensive experience with summer league teams and is very excited to be moving to the Pacific Northwest.
Another
transplant from the land of pleasant living, Ken Spenser brings his 15 years of
coaching experience to King. Formerly the head coach of the largest team in
Maryland swimming, Ken is proud to be a part of the strongest staff on the West
Coast. On his former club, Ken's swimmers routinely produced top 16 times, US
Open and National cuts. Ken was an active member of Maryland swimming, acting as
the coach's representative to the administrative board and consistently serving
as a zone coach.
Ken earned his degree in psychology at Villanova University and is currently
completing his masters degree in Kinesiology at the University of Maryland. In
his other life, Ken worked seven years for the Howard county public school
system, teaching 4th, 6th, and 7th grade. In the past year Ken has gotten
married, taken a trip around the world covering five continents in six months,
and made the move to Seattle. He is an ASCA level 4 coach.