Bill started swimming in 1973 at the age of seven for the West Shore Y.M.C.A. in Camphill, PA until graduating from high school in 1984. During his eleven years as a West Shore Barracuda he received numerous awards including "Most Improved", "High Point", "Undefeated", and "Coaches Award". He also earned State Champion and State and Mid-Atlantic Record Holder Awards and placed in the top eight at the Y.M.C.A. Nationals his last three years as a Barracuda. 

Bill served as team captain for the Barracudas his senior season and his high school swim team his junior and senior years. During his senior year in high school, Bill was voted "Athlete of the Year" and was the recipient of the Old Timers Athletic Association Award for "Outstanding Male Swimmer" in his high school district. 
Bill was heavily recruited by many area colleges but ultimately chose to swim for the Pennsylvania State University (1984-87) where he continued to improve his times. Upon graduation, Bill held one of the top five fastest times in school history in the 200 butterfly and the 500 freestyle and was a member of the 1985 Eastern Championship Team. 

Bill started coaching in 1983 during his junior year in high school for the Hershey Country Club. He then coached four more years in the Harrisburg area where he had the opportunity to work with future Olympian, Anita Nall, for two years in the 8 & under age group. In 1992, Bill became an assistant coach for a local PVS team with his brother and formed the Potomac Marlins during the following season. In his 32 seasons as the Potomac Marlins Head Coach, Bill has produced 30 Junior National Level swimmers, 4 USA Futures swimmers, 7 Senior National Level swimmers, 8 US OPEN swimmers and has taken 5 swimmers to the USA Olympic Trials. 

Bill earned a B.S. in Sport and Exercise Science and was a certified Personal Fitness Trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine. Bill holds a Level 4 coaching certification through the American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) and functions as the Potomac Marlins head coach, team trainer and training program coordinator. 

Coach Bill is the Potomac Marlins Team Trainer and is responsible for designing and maintaining the training plan for most of the Potomac Marlin practice groups. Coach Bill also handles all Potomac Marlins swim meet operations including; meet entries, meet director responsibilities for hosted meets, and related questions. 

Coach Bill served on the Potomac Valley Swimming Board of Directors for 20 years.  Bill served as the PVS General Chair for 4 years. His other positions on the Board of Directors have been: 6 years as PVS Coaches Rep., 6 years as the Age Group Chairman, and  4 years as the Senior Chairman. In addition, Bill served on the USA Swimming Age Group Development Committee for 3 years and was appointed by USA Swimming to serving as the Chair of this committee. Coach Bill was also selected by United States Swimming to serve on the coaching staff for the Eastern Zone Select Camp in 2007 and 2012 and he was selected as the Head Coach of the Southern Zone Select Camp in 2015. Coach Bill was also the PVS Distance Swimming Coordinator for 10 years.

Coach Rick grew up in Oneonta, New York and swam for his local YMCA and high school teams. While in high school he was a YMCA National finalist three times and a five time medalist at Empire State Games competitions. He swam at the collegiate level each of his four years at Alfred University (NY) and served as team captain his senior year. While at Alfred, Rick earned All-American honors in 18 events and was the school record holder in six events. He was also named the Eastern Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) Male Athlete of the Year in 1992. He earned his BA in English Literature at Alfred and a BS in Physical Education at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2000.

Rick began coaching in 1993 at the Westport YMCA (CT) and served as head coach at both Newtown and Joel Barlow High Schools. In 1996, he became the head coach of both the Ridgefield Aquatic Club and the Western Connecticut State women’s team. While at Ridgefield Rick coached two swimmers to Junior Nationals standards and was selected as an Eastern Zone coach three consecutive years.

In 1997, Rick became an assistant men’s coach at Harvard University.  While at Harvard, he also served as head senior coach of the resident USS team, the Mass Bay Marlins. During his two years at Harvard, Rick worked with several Division I All-Americans as well as Olympic athletes from five different countries. He also coached four additional swimmers to Junior National standards, one of which took the title in the 100 fly.

In 2004, Rick moved to Virginia and coached with the York Swim Club for three years. He was head coach of the International Country Club in the Dominion Country Club League for two years and is now head coach of the Pleasant Valley Piranhas of the NVSL. Rick is a Physical Education teacher at Liberty Elementary School in South Riding where he currently resides with his family.

Will began swimming when he was five years old with a Colonial League team called the Sequoia Farms Stingrays. Wearing his goggles extremely tight and all the time, he earned the nickname “frog-boy”. He swam with the Stingrays until he was eighteen. He began his coaching career with the team as a junior assistant at age sixteen. For the past three years, he has worked with the Stingrays as an assistant coach.

Will swam for four years with the Westfield High School Varsity Swim Team.  From there he went on to swim for the James Madison University club swim team for four years, and recently graduated with an engineering degree. Will swam year-round with the Potomac Marlins for seven years, and is now excited to come back as a coach

Coach James grew up in central Pennsylvania.  He started swimming at the age of 7 with the Bloomsburg YMCA and swam both YMCA and USA Swimming through high school.   He got hooked on swimming when he won his first bronze medal at the 1983 league championships in the 25 backstroke wearing a nice pair of yellow swim trunks.  James won numerous Pennsylvania YMCA State Championships later in his age group career and held State records in both the butterfly and backstroke events. He was the first male swimmer from the Bloomsburg YMCA to win a national title at the 1995 spring YMCA National Championships, in the 200 backstroke.  

James continued his swimming career at Harvard University, where he won the Ivy League Championship in the 100 yard backstroke as well as multiple 1st team All-Ivy and Academic All-Ivy designations.  Over the course of his four years, Harvard went 4-0 in the Ivy League Championship Meet and placed 11th at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.  During the summers in college, James competed with the Mass Bay Marlins and FAST Swimming in California, attending US Swimming Long course National Championships each summer.  At the 1998 summer nationals, he had a chance to compete in an exhibition monofin competition.

Coach James continues to swim through US Masters Swimming.  He is a US Masters Swimming All-American and holds two USMS national records in the 50 yard butterfly and 50 meter butterfly.