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MEET THE COACHES
Winter 2025: We are always looking for new or experienced coaches to assist with morning and/or evening workouts. These are paid positions. Please contact Coach Brad with inquiries.
Founder, Head Coach
Coach Brad is passionate about swimming. He has been an active swimmer for most of his life, competes and holds records on a national level and loves to coach and help his members achieve swimming-related goals. He is a certified USMS Level 3 Coach and started Terra Nova Aquatics from scratch in 2013. Coach Brad was recognized for his devotion to the development of the sport in Pacifica and was inducted into the Pacifica Sports Hall of Fame in February 2020! Congrats to our inspirational coach!
PETE SONG
PPSC Coach
Pete coaches the older swimmers and has great rapport with the team. He emphasizes the key stroke skills, and encourages them to push a little harder as they grow and develop as competitive swimmers. Pete has been coaching for many years and has enjoyed watching the team grow.
CSTS Coach
Rachel has been a swimmer since childhood and participated in club and school teams her whole life. She has been coaching stroke schools, age groups and masters on and off since 2009 and is so happy to be back with a team after Covid. She loves working with swimmers of all levels and especially adults who are just getting into/back into the sport. You’ll find her on deck Monday through Thursday evenings and Tuesdays at noon.
RACHEL WRIGHT
MARY GERMANO
PPSC Coach
Mary was the assistant coach for the Pacifica Sea Lions for 22 years. She also coached high school swimming at both Terra Nova and Oceana for eight years. Mary has been a member of the aquatic staff for the city of Pacifica for 47 years! We are so glad to have her.
RAYMOND ICABOCCI
CSTS Coach
Raymond has been swimming for twelve years and he started with PPSC in the team's early days! He has also swam with DART and ALTO as well as other teams. As a masters coach, Raymond said that he likes to simulate race conditions for high intensity work by stressing the aerobic and anaerobic systems as individually as possible. For low intensity work, Raymond uses a variety of speed-play and long yardage swims. You will see coach Ray on deck Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings and we are so glad to have him.
Melissa Irish joined the PPSC coaching staff this summer, returning to the pool deck after taking time off to be home with her kids. She currently teaches history courses at Skyline College and works as a loan officer, helping families and individuals with their home financing needs. Melissa has previous experience teaching swim lessons and coaching high school swimmers, and she is excited to be a part of this incredible swimming community. Look for Melissa on deck Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
PPSC Coach
MELISSA IRISH
