Brazos Splash Coaches

Head Coach - Virgil Martinez (middle)

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Coach Virgil has been training swimmers for 27 years, the last 11 here in the Brazos Valley. His early teams in San Antonio won the city's Park and Recreation Summer championships from 1980 - 1987. Here in Bryan, he was the Head Coach for the highly successful Barracuda Summer League Team from 1996 - 2003, winning the local North West Aquatic League's Division for six years. This division included teams from College Station, Navasota, Brenham and Huntsville. If you want to enjoy the sport, come swim for Coach Virgil.

 

Assistant Coach - Allison Schertz (left)

  Assistant Coach - Mike Ortiz (right)

Coach Allison has been training swimmers for nine years. First as a Swimmer Volunteer in the Bryan Barracuda swim team and now as a USA Swimming Coach. Her approach to young swimmers is one of our best assets in the team! Many of our top swimmers started training with Coach Allison. She trains the younger beginner and age groups.

 

Coach Mike is from El Paso, Tex. where he enjoyed a great swimming/coaching career. He swam for the Washington Piranhas for ten years, was a four-year letterman at Jefferson High school, and his USA Swim Club was the Sun City Seals. His coaching experience include the Leo Cancellare Killer Whales, the Shawver Sailfish (both in El Paso) and for the Summer of '06, the College Station Tsunamis. Coach Mike is now the Bryan High School Head Swimming Coach.