Matt Rowe
Head Coach
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Coach Matt Rowe comes to Hinsdale from the Lakeside Aquatic Club
in Dallas, Texas. He has 17 years of coaching experience, thirteen
of them as the Head Coach of LAC. While at LAC he grew the team
from approximately 200 swimmers to over 500 swimmers. He has had
Olympic Trial qualifiers in each of the last 3 Olympiads and has
placed a swimmer on the National Junior Team. Matt has had a least
one Senior National qualifier every year since 1999. In addition to
coaching multiple Junior National qualifiers, having over 100 swims
make top 16 qualifying times, and coaching multiple individual
Sectional champions, over 30 of Matt’s athletes have gone on
to swim at Division I and II universities.
While coaching the senior group at HSC, Matt will also work with
the coaching staff developing a first rate age-group program. An
Illinois native and graduate of Western Illinois University, Matt
is very excited to become a part of the HSC family!
Eric Thuneman
Assistant Coach
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Eight & Unders and Eleven
- Twelves
Coach Eric comes to us after a
hiatus from coaching in order to earn his Masters Degree in
Educational Leadership. Prior to working on his Masters degree he
was the Head Swim Coach of the Kroehler YMCA Swim Team in
Naperville and the Farmstead Swim Club part of the Naperville Park
District Swim Conference.
Coach Eric has a bachelor’s
degree in Physical education and is currently an Elementary PE
Teacher in the town of Wood Dale. He really likes to work with the
age group swimmers and to help develop them into the best swimmer
they can possibly be.
Coach Eric has 20 plus years of
competitive swimming experience on every level from park district,
club, high school and collegiate swimming. Coach Eric swam for the
napy swim club in Naperville while growing up and also at
Naperville Central High School. He then swam for the Fort Bragg, NC
army post team and finally at the College of DuPage where he was a
2 time NJCAA finalist in the 100 breast and 200 breast.
Julie King
Assistant Coach
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Pre-Team and Nine -
Tens
Julie is beginning her forth year
as an assistant coach at the Hinsdale Swim Club. She graduated with
a B.S. degree from Illinois State University. Since moving to the
suburbs she has been working as a substitute teacher.
Julie swam competitively for many
years. She was a YMCA state champion and a Junior Olympic champion
during her age group years. She has coached for country club teams
as well as another USA team for many years.
Her husband Corky is the Hinsdale
Central boys swimming coach. She has two sons, Skyler and Brandon,
both in college. Brandon swims for Hope College and the Hinsdale
swim club when he returns in the summer.
Meghan Connor
Assistant Coach
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Meghan began her swimming
career with H.S.C. at four years old and continued to train and be
a part of the swim club
up until the summer before her senior year of college in 2009. With
several All American Awards achieved throughout her high school career Meghan
went on to compete her freshman year of college in the Big Ten
Conference for the University of Illinois women’s swim team and upon
transferring to
University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA) her
sophomore year, continued to compete at the division one
level in the Big West
Conference in both water polo and swimming. With four years
of division one experience under her belt and a long standing
commitment to the
Hinsdale Swim Club, she looks forward to helping coach the
younger age groups in hopes of giving back to the club that gave
her such a memorable swimming career.
