Our Coaches

Owner and Head Coach, Coach Karr has 30 years of coaching experience. She is the founder of Buckeye Swim Club and has led the team to a 3rd place overall finish & a 1st Place Small Team at the Ohio Age Group Championships and a 2nd place finish at the Ohio Senior Meet. She brings a passion for the sport of swimming and swimmers that is unparalleled by any in Central Ohio. She brings tremendous knowledge of swimming and the ability to communicate with swimmers and parents.

 

Chris Hadden is extremely excited to become the new Head Coach of the Buckeye Swim Team. Chris founded the United Swim Association (USA) in 2009 and the Central Ohio Premier Swim Club (COPS) in 2003. He has coached successful programs in Florida, Louisiana, the Washington, DC area, and Columbus, Ohio.

Matt Celik had been the Head Age Group Coach for the United Swim Association (USA) since 2010. What Matt loves about coaching is the opportunity to foster the progression of swimmers at every level of our program, from first-time competitor to national team member.

Heath Patterson is excited to become the Lead AG3 Scarlet Coach at Columbus North. Heath started coaching with the United Swim Association (USA) in 2018.

Katie Donovan is the lead coach of AG1 Silver and has been coaching with Buckeye Swim Team since November of 2021. Katie grew up swimming in northeast Ohio for Hudson HEAT and the Hudson High School swim team. She became a ‘buckeye’ swimmer in college by joining the club swim team at Ohio State!

Karli grew up outside of Cleveland where she swam for LRST and the Rocky River High School swim team. She continued her swimming career at Ohio Northern University where she was a varsity swimmer all four years.

Kaylyn Froebel is extremely excited to join Buckeye as the lead coach for the AG2 Scarlet group. Kaylyn swam competitively for USA and later became a 4-year varsity letter winner at Grove City College.

Thomas Clark is excited to join Buckeye as an assistant coach for Senior Group. He grew up swimming competitively for USA for 12 years and went on to swim 4 years at The University of Tampa.

Lauryn is our lead AG3 Silver coach at our Powell location. Lauryn is an aspiring teacher and is currently working in classrooms at Columbus Schools. Lauryn swam and played volleyball at Wilmington College

Grant Horton is excited to join the Buckeye Swim Team as the Lead AG1 Scarlet Coach at Columbus North. Grant has been coaching with the United Swim Association since 2015 and competitively swam for USA since 2012.