About MTSC Masters
 

MTSC Masters Staff

Head Coach Ron Chlasta

Strength Coach Amy Caldwell

Webmistress, Marketing Director and Head Cheerleader

Jean Mainland

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Head Coach Ron Chlasta

Ron Chlasta has coached all levels of competitive swimmers from age-group to USMS level. He has produced numerous high school All-Americans, USS T-16 ranked swimmers, Olympic Trials qualifiers, and masters national qualifiers. Ron owns and operates Sea Star Swim School in Hendersonville, where the MTSC Masters work out.

Prior to his move to Tennessee, Ron worked as a partner in BottomLine Aquatics, a company designed to combine the experience and expertise of world class swimmers and Olympic swimmers throughout the United States and share it with the swimming community world wide. Ron has conducted clinics with the national teams of Korea, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Guatemala.

Because of his diverse background of training and coaching, he brings innovation, creativity and excitement to our workouts on a daily basis.

Strength Training Coach Amy Caldwell

Amy brings significant credentials to our "Weights in the Warehouse" program.  She earned a Masters Degree in Physical Education from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and is also a personal trainer, certified by the American Council on Exercise.   Although she is relatively new to the masters swimming arena, she swam competitively on summer league teams and in high school, where she was also a cheerleader and ran track.  Amy is still a great cheerleader, only now she cheers our team on to new levels of strength by directing our fitness goals.

Webmistress, Marketing Director and Head Cheerleader  Jean Mainland

What began as a hobby has become a second "career" for Jean.  She earned a degree in Mass Communications, with an emphasis in television, and set out on her quest to become the anchor-for-life on the Today Show.  Life can be a fickle mistress, and things just didn't work out exactly as she anticipated, and after years of career changes, she became a paralegal.  Yet another questionable career choice, but it pays the bills.  Because law is not necessarily the most creative field around (or is it?), Reeno, as she is known to the team, needed a creative outlet.  Thus, she became webmistress and marketing director.  Reeno is new to swimming.  A total "swim phobic", Coach Ron taught her to swim just a few years ago, which earned him many karma points, her undying gratitude and the title of the "Most Patient Man Alive".  Although she never lost the fear, she has even managed to compete at the 2004 USMS Short Course Nationals, despite a panic attack.  While an NQT probably isn't in the cards, she hopes to live long enough to place in a heat.   Or to get her 50 free under 1:30.  Whichever comes first.