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About Our Swimming Coaches  | Mike BottomMike is Head Coach for The Race Club's World Team. He spent years as the Co-Head Coach, University of California at Berkeley. Former Olympic swimmer, Mike Bottom, has today become arguably the best sprint coach in the world. In fact, in the past two Olympics, nearly half of the finalists in the Olympic Games in the 50-meter freestyle were coached by Mike Bottom. His most noted and accomplished athletes are Gary Hall Jr., Anthony Ervin, Duje Draganja, and Bart Kizierowski. | | | |  | Matt MacedoMacedo is a 2003 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in American Studies. He was a 20-time All-American swimmer at Cal under Mike Bottom. He swam on two NCAA championship relay teams and also represented the U.S. at the 2001 World University Games. Macedo was the 2000 Pacific Swimming Swimmer of the Year. | | | | | | | | | |  | Gary Hall Jr.After 3 Olympics, Gary Hall Jr. is still going strong. With 10 Olympic medals (5 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze), Gary still has his sights set on Beijing. He was history’s fastest swimmer in organized competition in the 50-meter freestyle at 21.76. Even if he is over 30, he still believes he can swim faster. | | | | | 
| Gary Hall Gary won 18 individual Big Ten and seven NCAA championships, setting nine individual world records in three different strokes, and was named World Swimmer of the Year in 1970 and 1971. He became the second American male swimmer ever to compete in three different Olympiads (1968, 1972, and 1976), serving as team captain the last two years and carrying the flag for the U.S. team at the opening ceremonies in 1976 in Montreal. He won three Olympic medals and was a charter member elected into the Indiana University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1981; was elected into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1981. He serves on the board of directors of many charitable organizations, including the Phoenix Swim Foundation, Diabetes Association, and Muscular Dystrophy Association. | | | | | | 
| Mark Hill Mark Hill has just been named Head Coach of the Florida Key’s Swim Club and technique Coach for The Race Club swim camps. Previously, Hill spent two seasons as the Assistant Coach at Washington College in Chestertown, MD where he helped lead the men‘s team to one of the most successful seasons in school history. He has also coached at the Maccabi Games in Israel where he coached several medalists, and served as a student assistant coach of the Women’s ACC championship team at the University of Maryland. | | | | | |  | Tim McClellanTim has served as strength and conditioning coach for The Race Club since 2000. He has constructed strength programming protocols, dryland aerobic circuits, mobility programs and dryland/pool conditioning programs. For the past three decades Tim has been recognized as a strength and conditioning innovator for athletes of all realms. He previously spent 13 years coaching at Arizona State University, where he directly coached all 25 varsity teams. Tim was twice named the U.S.A. Head Coach for the World Powerlifting Championships, and was a performance consultant for the Boston Bruins training camp. He is now the Director of Performance Enhancement at Makeplays, and has produced 13 instructional videos and written over 40 magazine articles in his field. | | | | | | |
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