Youth - Age Group Swimming Teams and Lessons
Lake Gators is a US Masters Swimming Club and we cannot train anyone under 18 as a USMS club. If you are looking for swim lessons from infants to teenagers, we recommend South Lake Aquatic Club (SLAC)
SLAC also has an excellent age group swim team headed by Coach Don Gibb:
Don Gibb brings 35 years of collegiate and club coaching experience to the Lightning. He has served as the Head Coach at Florida State University, the University of South Carolina, and Daytona State College as well as assisting at the University of Florida, Florida State, and the University of Kentucky. Don was twice named Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Coach-of-the-Year while at FSU (1995, 1998) and led the ‘Noles to their only top ten NCAA finish in the school's history.
Domestically, his swimmers have won USA Swimming titles at Junior Nationals, Senior Nationals and at the U.S. Open. At the prep level, swimmers have been champions at NCAA Division 1, NJCAA, SEC, ACC, and at Florida High School State. On the international scene, Gibb has guided fourteen Olympians including an Olympic finalist at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He has also led swimmers to finals at the Pan Pacific Games, Pan American Games, World Championships and Commonwealth Games.
Gibb got his start as an age grouper at age 12 at Greater Pensacola Aquatic Club where he swam for Olympic Coach and current Texas A & M Women’s Head Coach, Steve Bultman. Don then went on to swim at the University of Florida under Olympic Coach, Randy Reese, where he became an SEC, NCAA, and U.S. Swimming champion during his time in Gainesville.
Lake Gators is a US Masters Swimming Club and we cannot train anyone under 18 as a USMS club. If you are looking for swim lessons from infants to teenagers, we recommend South Lake Aquatic Club (SLAC)
SLAC also has an excellent age group swim team headed by Coach Don Gibb:
Don Gibb brings 35 years of collegiate and club coaching experience to the Lightning. He has served as the Head Coach at Florida State University, the University of South Carolina, and Daytona State College as well as assisting at the University of Florida, Florida State, and the University of Kentucky. Don was twice named Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Coach-of-the-Year while at FSU (1995, 1998) and led the ‘Noles to their only top ten NCAA finish in the school's history.
Domestically, his swimmers have won USA Swimming titles at Junior Nationals, Senior Nationals and at the U.S. Open. At the prep level, swimmers have been champions at NCAA Division 1, NJCAA, SEC, ACC, and at Florida High School State. On the international scene, Gibb has guided fourteen Olympians including an Olympic finalist at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He has also led swimmers to finals at the Pan Pacific Games, Pan American Games, World Championships and Commonwealth Games.
Gibb got his start as an age grouper at age 12 at Greater Pensacola Aquatic Club where he swam for Olympic Coach and current Texas A & M Women’s Head Coach, Steve Bultman. Don then went on to swim at the University of Florida under Olympic Coach, Randy Reese, where he became an SEC, NCAA, and U.S. Swimming champion during his time in Gainesville.
