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.
Coach Mo is in his third year with the AquaHawgs and in his first year as Associate Head Coach. During the past two seasons, AquaHawg senior athletes have shown tremendous performance improvements, highlighted by a mens team win at the 2021 Futures championships and numerous top 3 finishes at each of the Region 8 Sectionals Championships. Individual athletes have also excelled under Coach Mo's tenure with several athletes qualifying for US Nationals, US Junior Nationals, Nationals Select Camp, and over 30 LSC & State individual and relay records set. Prior to arriving in Northwest Arkansas with his wife Elisha and two children, Mohamed was the Head Site Coach for Scarlet Aquatics, a USA Swimming Silver Medal Club in New Jersey.
While at Scarlet Aquatics Mohamed was directly responsible for placing athletes on the National Junior Team and was selected as a USA-S National Junior Team Coach 2018, 2019, and 2020. For 6 consecutive years (2015-2020) multiple athletes have achieved 18 and under world 100 times. In May 2019 Mohamed was honored to be an attendant and a presenter at USA National Team Coaches Seminar and one year earlier in 2018 he was a presenter at the National Select Camp.
Coach Mo coached different athletes to medal performances at 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Games, 2019 Pan American Games, 2016 European Championships, 2019 Junior European Championships, 2019 Junior World Championships, 2017 US Open, 2018 USA Nationals, 2016/2017/2018 USA Junior Nationals - as well as coaching two athletes to semi-final finishes at the 2016 Olympic Games. He was honored to be a top 50 ASCA Age Group coach of the Year in 2017, 2019, & 2020. His athletes have combined for 5 National Age group records and over 60 NJ LSC records.
He is a graduate of Montclair State University with a degree in Exercise Science and Physical Education. Mohamed Competed for 4 years for Montclair State University where he was captain of the team during his Junior and Senior years.
Jana Olson is a native of Northwest Arkansas. She graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2000. She has been a part of Razorback Aquatic Club AquaHawgs since 2017. Jana brings with her over ten years of experience in Early Childhood Education to the AquaHawgs. Jana has been Razorback Aquatic Club’s Team Administrator since 2019. As Team Administrator, Jana oversees all billing, registration with USA Swimming (Athletes, Coaches, Officials, Board Members, & Non-Athletes), club communication, and supports the RAC Board of Directors.
In 2020, Jana stepped into the role of HawgStart Swim School Director. Jana helped revamp the HawgStart Swim School which has led to substantial growth/expansion of the program. Jana looks forward to the continued growth of our programs.
Coach Amanda is going on her 3rd year with the AquaHawgs. Originally from New Jersey she swam for Scarlet Aquatics at the Bayonne Division under Coach Mo. During her time at Scarlet Aquatics she was a New Jersey Junior Olympic, Eastern Zone, Sectional, Future, Junior National, and TYR Pro Swim Series swimmer. For college, she swam for a Division 1 program at Long Island University- Brooklyn. Amanda was at LIU Brooklyn for two seasons where she brought in points as well as high placing finishes at both the Eastern College Athletic Conference and Northeast Conference championships.
She holds a degree from Rutgers University Newark for Biology and Psychology.
In 2020 she began her coaching career at Scarlet Aquatics Bayonne Division as the Lead Coach for the Senior Prep group. By September 2021 she was also given the opportunity to work with a lesson club program by the name of Swim Stars.
Coach Amanda became the Head Coach for both the Boys and Girls Swim team at Jersey City's McNair High School in November 2021. Both teams placed 3rd overall and qualified for the state tournament.
In addition to being a part of our coaching staff Amanda is a Middle School Science/STEM teacher!
Coach Amanda has also won the accolade of 2024 Arkansas Age Group Coach of the Year.
Currently, Coach Amanda works with Senior Prep, Seniors, and Senior Swim Fit.
This is Alayna's 4th year on staff with the Aquahawgs. She grew up swimming for the Aquahawgs and swam for Rogers High School. She is currently a student teaching intern, studying elementary education.
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.
