Rich Bennetts - Head Coach
The 2007-2008 season is Rich's eighth year as head coach of FFYS. Rich lives in Livonia with his wife, Jennifer, and their four year old daughter, Haley. Rich is an Arizona State University graduate. His swimming experience includes 12 years of USS/Club, 4 years of high school, 1 year of college and 2 years of masters.
Coaching Experience:
- ’99 – Current: Northville High School, head men’s varsity coach (Overall record 39-14-1, ’99-’00 and ’04-’05 Western Division Champs ’04-’05 WLAA League Champs)
- ’03-’04 and ’04-’05: MISCA Zone 3 Coach of the Year (13 state qualifiers, 3 All-State honors, 1 All-American honor)
- ’00 – Current: Livonia Stevenson High School, assistant girl’s varsity coach (2000 – 2005 Lakes Division Champs, 2000 – 2005 WLAA League Champs)
- ’00 – Current: Farmington YMCA Stingrays, head coach (14 YMCA National qualifiers, 10 USS Sectional qualifiers, 1 US Open Qualifier)
- ’98 – ’99: Farmington YMCA Stingrays, assistant coach 13-18 year age group
- ’93 – ’94: Clarenceville Swim Club, assistant coach 12 and under age group
- ’92 – ’94: Fairway Farms Swim Club, head coach 1992 League Champs; Overall record 14-10
Bob Holdridge - Head Age Group Coach
The 2006-2007 season brings Bob back for his 10th year as a Stingray Coach. Bob is the inspiration for our Minirays, Bronze, Silver and Gold swimmers. As a six-year-old, Bob began competitive swimming. He swam for a variety of teams including: Farmington Glen, Meads Mill Middle School, Clarenceville Swim Club, Beechview Swim Club, Northville High School, Oakland University, and Oakland Masters Team. Bob was a USA swimmer competing at the Junior Nationals and a State Champion as a 13-14 year old in the 200 Freestyle. As he waits to strike it rich as a swim coach, Bob works as an Account Analyst at DaimlerChrysler.
Liz Schwind - Assistant Coach
Liz began swimming competitively at the South Oakland YMCA at the age of six, and stayed with their program through the age of 17. She also swam for Berkley High School. She has coached for the Huntington Woods Hurricanes and for YPAC. Liz says she has been in the swimming world for so long that she wouldn’t know what to do without it! Liz is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan with a BA in Political Science and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Education at Wayne State University. She is very happy to join the FFYS staff and is looking forward to having a lot of fun at practice and watching great races at meets this season.
Julie Kluka - Assistant Coach
Julie began swimming at the age of 7 for Beechview Swim Club. She swam
for MSSA for 8 years and for FFYS in her senior year of high school,
specializing in mid-distance and long distance freestyle. Julie swam
for Harrison High School and was captain her senior year. She qualified
for the Class A High School State Meet all 4 years, was All-County (4
years), and All-Conference (4 years). She also qualified for YMCA
Nationals. Julie graduated from CornellUniversity in 2003, where she
swam for one year. She enjoys being involved with competitive swimming
as a coach.