Experience Head Coach DCAA 2011 - present SAL Girls Head Coach DCAA 2009 – present MA Age Group Committee Middle Atlantic 2012 - present MA George Breen Age Group Middle Atlantic 2017, 2019, 2020 Select Camp Coach SAL Boys Head Coach DCAA 2011 – 2013 Assistant SAL Girls Coach Abington Dolphins 2005 – 2008 Assistant SAL Boys Coach Abington Dolphins 2001 – 2002 Head Coach Crestmont 1998 -1999, 2013 - present Assistant Coach Crestmont 1997 Certification American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) Level 3 American Red Cross Safety Training for Swim Coaches American Red Cross Lifeguarding Education Doctor of Optometry 2005 Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Salus University) Bachelor of Science Ocular Science 2002 Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Salus University) Bachelor of Science Biology 2000 Lafayette College
Michele Spooner, DCAA’s Head Coach, has over 20 years of coaching experience and she has been involved with competitive swimming for 30 years. Coach Shelly swam for Crestmont, in the summer, and Dolphins, in the winter, for over 10 years. She received both the Dolphin’s Patrick McManus Memorial Award for Teamwork and Dedication and the Suburban Aquatic League (SAL) Senior Scholarship Award in 1996. Shelly swam 4 years at Upper Dublin High School where she was a member of the State Champion Lady Cardinals in 1993 and 1994. The 1994 team has since been inducted in to the Upper Dublin High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2020. Shelly started coaching in the late 1990s as the assistant
and then head coach of the Crestmont Clippers.
Coach Shelly started coaching for DCAA in 2001. She coached as an assistant for 5 years
before becoming the Head SAL Girls Team Coach in 2009 and DCAA Head Coach in
2011. Coach Shelly played a major role
in creating DCAA’s USA Swimming Team, a new member of Middle Atlantic Swimming
in 2009. DCAA has since produced several
Junior Olympic qualifiers, Senior Champs qualifiers, Middle Atlantic Zone Team qualifiers, nationally
ranked age group swimmers, and Eastern Zone Swimming Champions. Shelly graduated from Lafayette College in 2000 and Pennsylvania College of Optometry/Salus University in 2005. Coach/Dr. Shelly is a practicing eye doctor in Huntingdon Valley. |
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