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Head coach: Rebecca Uhl-van Oostendorp 


Rebecca swam competitively for over 15 years representing Badger Swim Club in Larchmont N.Y. under John Collins.  Competed for 3 consecutive years on the National Modern Pentathlon Team placing top 7 the last two years.  Rebecca has over 20 years of coaching experience.   She relocated to Mississippi in 1996 and has worked to build competitive swimming in Northern Mississippi. Upon inception of NMS there were 12 swimmers.  Currently, over 60 children are active.

  

 

 


Assistant Coach:  Ken Uhl

      

 Rebecca's father brings SWAT a wealth of knowledge with over 50 years of swimming knowledge and experience including Masters swimming.  Mr. Uhl works with the younger children predominately developing skills and comfort levels.

 

 Assistant to the Assistant Coach 
and Shock Wave  Team Physician  


Dr. Jeannie Gispen

 
Dr. Gispen swam competitively from ages 10-18 for Hanging Moss Swim Club in Jackson, MS. 
She was proficient in all strokes, but mainly competed in backstroke and fly.  She went on to swim for  Radcliff College, sister school to Harvard.  She predominately swam backstroke, but swam in butterfly events as well, when  extra warm bodies were needed.
Dr. Gispen is  our Friday After Practice Water Polo Referee and team mate. She was introduced to water polo in college, and played in her junior and senior years on a club team coached by guys from
the Harvard swim team. The highlight of Her water polo career occurred when she  played for the University of North Carolina men's (club) team during her third year of medical school at Duke. She accidentally "missed"  an immunology lecture one Friday  so she could  drive with the UNC guys to Morgantown, West Virginia for a water polo tournament. She played 5 games with the UNC team and 2 games as a substitute with the West Virginia women's team... she had a blast and got lost on the dance floor  till the wee hours  that Saturday night. Dr. Gispen is still tireless!
Some of you might also know Dr. Gispen as the mother of Fiona and Adrienne Gispen, both members of the NMS SWAT Team and loving wife to her husband,  Kees, a potential Masters SWAT recruit.

 

Senior Team Aide and "INDAWATA" coach :-)



Patrick Kieffer
Patrick started swimming competitively at age 10 .  He swam for Nu Wave Swim Club in New Orleans, and had the opportunity to be coached by former Olympian Ashley Tappin his senior year.
 Patrick was awarded MVP in his junior and senior years in high school,  and was Captain his senior year. Patrick has enjoyed coaching  summer league swimming for five years in New Orleans as well as assisting SWAT the past 3 years and working with our Oxford High School swimmers. Patrick is great with the kids and has been known to work for power bars!