MAC Swim Coaches

Coaches
Tim J. Kelley, Director of Athletics at the Missouri Athletic Club West, Head Coach Jim Halliburton and Assistant Head Coach Lauren Fonseca oversee an excellent staff of young coaches for each age group. Coaches will be introduced at the first practice and are available for questions and discussion after practice.

Swim Team Committee
Head Parent Rep. Lynn Rourke, Jim Halliburton, Tim Kelley, Dave Miller

Jim Halliburton
Head Swim Coach
Halliburton is the Head Coach at Saint Louis University. He has turned around swim programs at the Rockwood Swim Club, Marquette High School and the Missouri Athletic Club Summer League. His longest tenure was as the head coach of the Rockwood Swim Club where from 1985 to 2002 he took a program with 38 swimmers and turned it into a national champion squad some 500 swimmers strong. Halliburton’s Marquette team won three state championships in his last four seasons. In just two seasons with the Missouri Athletic Club Summer League team, Halliburton took a team that had not won a meet in 1999 to a conference championship in 2001. He was named U.S. National Team Coach three times and the Region 8 Coach of the Year six times.

Lauren Fonseca
Assistant Head Coach
Fonseca returns for her fifth year of coaching thie MAC swmi teams. Lauren is currently a junior at Villanova University in the elementary education program. She swam for Villa Duchene for four years and currently swims for Villanova's club team.