Coaches and Directors
Coach John has served as the Razorback Aquatic Club AquaHawgs Head Coach and Director of Operations since 2019. The AquaHawgs have grown to one of the top clubs in Arkansas and within USA Swimming. USA Swimming named Razorback Aquatic Club AquaHawgs a Silver Medal Club in 2024 and a Bronze Medal Club in 2023. During his time with the AquaHawgs, swimmers have broken over 150 Team Records and over 50 State and LSC Records. The AquaHawgs have also had over 20 swimmers continue their swimming career in college. Coach John was also named 2021 Arkansas Swimming Age Group Coach of the Year.
Prior Coaching Experience…
- Briar Village Swim Team (Houston, TX) – Head Coach 2003-2005
- Memorial Athletic Club (Houston, TX) – Swim Instructor 2003-2007
- Fayetteville Athletic Club (Fayetteville, AR) – Head Coach / Aquatic Director 2008-2014
- Razorback Aquatic Club AquaHawgs – Head Age Group Coach 2014-2017
- Arkansas Racers – Assistant Coach 2017
- Northwest Arkansas Aquatics - Assistant Coach 2017-2019
Coach John is very proud of his work with Arkansas Swimming. Currently the Admin Vice Chair, he has held various positions on the Arkansas Swimming Board of Directors since 2016. He has also served as the Technical Planning Chair and Age-Group Vice Chair. Also, Coach John was an Arkansas Zone Team Coach in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022. Coach John served as the Arkansas Zone Team Coordinator and Head Coach in 2021 and 2022.
Coach John was asked to attended the 2022 USA Swimming National Age Group Summit and 2023 National Select Camp at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO.
Coach John has called Fayetteville home since 2006. He graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Recreation and Sports Management. He loves the Razorbacks and all the outdoor offerings of Northwest Arkansas. He also has an 8-year-old French Bulldog named Molly.

Carolyn was the original founder coach of Walmart Swim Club, now known as Northwest Arkansas Aquatics Sharks. Her coaching career began in 1975 when she stepped up to become the coach for the Bentonville Summer Swim Team at Bentonville’s City Pool. Under her coaching, the summer swim program grew from 25 swimmers to 125 in her 9 years of coaching the team. The Bentonville Swim Team was a member of the Tri-State Summer Swim Conference, and under her leadership, she took the team to many first place conference championships. In 1984, she began a year-round United States Swimming program at the Walton Life Fitness Center in Bentonville. She experienced all the growing pains in bringing Walmart Swim Club from its initial membership of about 20 to about 70 when she retired from coaching to become the full-time Aquatics Director at the center in 1994.







