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Mike McDonald
Co-Head Coach
Cuyahoga Falls High School

Mike is beginning his eighth year at Cuyahoga Falls High School (Co-Head Coach and Head Men's Coach) and his third year working with CFYN-USA swimmers. Growing up in Cuyahoga Falls, Mike's father gave him a choice, swimming or soccer. Intrigued by the challenges of swimming, Mike swam his way through college as team captain of the OAC Champion Team and graduated from Mount Union in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education. He then coached the WaterWorks Swim Club for one year before becoming the swim coach at Cuyahoga Falls High School. His reason for coaching is to influence the lives of young men and women and to give them resources to use throughout their life in and out of the pool.

Mike is a sixth grade Language Arts, Life Science and Health teach at St. Sebastian. Other than swimming, teaching and coaching, Mike enjoys soccer, running, movies and spending time with his wife of five years, Deidre, and their two cats.

A quote to live by: "Some men see things as they are and I say why, I dream of things that never were and say WHY NOT!"
- Robert Kennedy

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Articles

Title Date Summary
Q&A Using StrechCordz Long Belt Slider 4/27/2010 Hi, I use my coach's (a UK member of Noth America Swim Coarch Assocaition) 'long belt slider' but struggle at around 18 meters to progress much further down the pool- especially compared to some other club members who are slower than me in both training / racing. 20 metres is about as much as I can manage. Although I know that I need to fine tune my vertical forearm a little more (it's not bad) , I'm wondering if having a 'front quadrant' freestyle stoke' as I do (mine's almost 'catchup' ... and quite a long stoke) whether this has the effect of making me more streamlined 'in reverse' and therefore makes it easier for the 'long belt slider' to pull me backwards more so than someone with a less pronounced 'front quadrant' freestyle stoke' Is my thinking; correct, or flawed and it's my stoke that needs fine tuning - any ideas (if it helps I can make it much easier on breaststroke and a little easier on backstoke - haven't tried fly!). Obviously I don't want to make major changes to my stroke if this is a quirk of the 'long belt slider'. Kind regards Richard Master Swimmer Age 45 100m Free PB 1.00:00 1500m Free 18.45:00 Mileage 12 - 18miles / week