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Swim with Annie Podcast Episode 1 | What About Swim Meets? Conversation with Guest Laura Matuszak, Aquatics Professional.

Laura Matuszak received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Saint Michael’s College in 2008 and her BA from University of Michigan in 1994. 

Laura has been involved in competitive swimming for over forty years.

Laura is an ASCA certified Level 4:3 Coach and has served the New England Swimming and the USA Swimming communities through various roles, inclusive as President of New England Swimming, as well as on the New England Swimming Board of Directors and as a coach on several Zone and National Select Camps.

Swim with Annie Podcast Episode 3 | with Marrick McDonald


Chairman. NYS Temporary Commission to Prevent Childhood Drowning
Appointed by: Governor
County of Residence: Herkimer
CEO, Upstate Aquatics, LLC

Marrick McDonald is the retired CEO of Upstate Aquatics, LLC, a top Red Cross training provider in upstate New York. She has been an American Red Cross aquatic educator for over 30 years. She is the Past Aquatic Section President for New York State Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance; she restructured the Aquatic Section. She has taught at the secondary level, and she has been in school administration, with licensing as a School Superintendent. Marrick is the author of the Aquatic Guidebook for School Administrators, which educates school administrators who have pool classrooms in their districts.

www.ny.gov/programs/temporary-commission-prevent-childhood-drowning

Swim with Annie Podcast Episode 2 | Passion for water. Conversation with Eileen Hall, Saint Michael's College Women's & Men's Swimming and Diving Head Coach & Aquatics Professional.

Eileen Hall returns for her 14th season as head coach of the Saint Michael's men's and women's swimming & diving programs in 2023-24, and 15th overall with the teams. Hall, whose charges lay claim to every school swimming record, is the longest-tenured women's swimming & diving head coach in College history, and enters the year one dual-meet victory short of Dave Leonard's school record (57). Hall trails Jim Donoghue '70 by one year for the longest stint guiding the men.

Hall began a four-year term on the NCAA Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving Rules Committee in fall 2021 as the NCAA Division II representative. She is also the College's aquatics director.

Hall graduated from the NCAA Women Coaches Academy (2013) and has coached swimmers at a variety of levels, including at the University of Georgia's prestigious Bauerle Bulldog Swim Camp (2019). In summer 2016, she was the only woman invited to staff the Northeast Swimming Prospect Showcases in Bristol, R.I. Hall has earned her Level II certification through the American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA), and is also qualified as a coach with the United States Swimming Association. She has attended ASCA clinics in Florida, Massachusetts and New Jersey since 2007.

A standout amateur swimmer, Hall was an All-America at Glens Falls (N.Y.) High School in 1986, and went on to earn an athletic scholarship at Division I Bucknell University. Hall held high school state records at Glens Falls until 2002, and was inducted into the Glens Falls High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009.

Saint Michael's College Men's Swimming & Diving Head Coach, 2010-11 to Present (14th Season)


2 NCAA Championship 'B' Cuts (Pierce Farrington '18, 100 fly in 2014-15; Connor Hopkins '20, 50 free in 2019-20)
2 NE10 Championship Event Champions
8 NE10 All-Conference Qualifiers
1 NEISDA Championship Event Champion
1 CSCAA Individual Scholar All-America Honor
4 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Honors
10 NE10 Academic All-Conference Honors
1 NEISDA All-Academic Honor
15 CSCAA Team Scholar All-America Awards
1 NE10 Team Academic Excellence Award (2017-18)
School Records by Year: 2011-12 (6), 2012-13 (3), 2013-14 (1), 2014-15 (11), 2015-16 (5), 2016-17 (2), 2017-18 (5), 2018-19 (8), 2019-20 (9), 2021-22 (4), 2022-23 (4)

Saint Michael's College Women's Swimming & Diving Head Coach, 2010-11 to Present (14th Season)


56-55 dual record
1 CSCAA All-America Honor (Lindsay McNall '17, 2016-17)
1 NCAA Championship Competitor (Lindsay McNall '17, 2016-17)
11 NCAA Championship 'B' Cuts (Eileen Mullowney '12, 2 in 2010-11 and 6 in 2011-12; Lindsay McNall, 1 in 2013-14 and 2 in 2016-17)
1 NE10 Swimmer of the Year (Lindsay McNall '17, 2016-17)
1 NE10 Championship Record Holder (Lindsay McNall '17, 200 back in 2016-17)
1 NEISDA Championship Swimmer of the Meet (Eileen Mullowney '12, 2011-12)
1 NE10 Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award Winner
7 NE10 Championship Event Champions
11 NE10 All-Conference Qualifiers
10 NEISDA Championship Event Champions
1 CSCAA Individual Scholar All-America Honor
5 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Honors
12 NE10 Academic All-Conference Honors
3 NEISDA All-Academic Honors
19 CSCAA Team Scholar All-America Awards
School Records by Year: 2011-12 (12), 2012-13 (4), 2013-14 (9), 2014-15 (7), 2015-16 (6), 2016-17 (7), 2017-18 (6), 2018-19 (4), 2019-20 (2)

Saint Michael's College Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving Assistant Coach, 2009-10 (1 Season)


1 NE10 All-Conference Qualifier
3 NE10 Academic All-Conference Honors

Two Harbors (Minnesota) High School Swimming Head Coach (3 Seasons)


Finished in the top 3 at conference championship every year
Two athletes qualified for Minnesota State High School Champ