Head Coach
David Westfahl
David
Westfahl has been Head Coach of the Shorewood Swim Club since Fall of 1991.
Coach Westfahl is the National & Senior Team Coach as well as the Bronze Group. In
addition to his coaching duties with the Shorewood Swim Club, he has worked as
Head Age Group Coach of the Waukesha Express from 1990-1991, and Head Coach of
the SHS Boys and Girls High School Teams from 1990-2001.
David’s USA Swimming coaching accomplishments include two Olympic Trial Qualifiers, three Senior National Qualifiers, numerous Junior National Qualifiers, numerous NAG Top 16 swimmers, and many Wisconsin State Champions and record holders. As a High School coach, David led SHS to four State Championships, five Conference Championships, and coached many State Champions, State record holders, and All-Americans.
In addition to his duties with the swim club, David is very active in USA Swimming and the Wisconsin LSC. He has been a coach at the National Distance Camp in Nashville, as well as an invited coach at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Coach Westfahl is currently on the Wisconsin LSC Executive Board serving as the Technical Planning Coordinator. He has held many other positions in the LSC, including Camps Coordinator, Club Development Chair, and Coach’s Representative, as well as being a member of the Age Group / Senior Committee and the LSC board of Review.
David graduated from Nicolet High School (’86) and Carroll College (’90), where he majored in Psychology and Philosophy. He was Team Captain of Nicolet (’86) and Carroll ’87-88 through ’89-90) and All-Conference all four years in college. He resides in Glendale with his wife Kim, daughter Lauren (99), and son Benjamin (01).
Assistant Coaches
Rob has been a member of the Shorewood staff since the Fall of 2001. Coach McCabe is the Head Age-Group Coach, business manager and website coordinator. Rob coaches the Gold Group and also coaches the Masters program. He is also the current Head Girls and Boys swimming coach at SHS. Rob previously worked at the J-Hawk Aquatic Club, and the UW-Whitewater collegiate team.
Rob’s accomplishments include coaching the 2001 & 2003 Girls High School teams to a State Championship, girls Woodland Conference Champions 2006, 2007 & 2008 as well as being named a Wisconsin Zone C Coach on many occasions. Rob has coached an athlete to reach NAG Top 16 rankings, state record holders and several high school and age group state champions, McCabe is also an active member in the Wisconsin LSC age-group and review committees.
Rob swam with the Fort Atkinson Swim Team and J-Hawk Aquatic Club as an age-grouper, and Fort Atkinson HS and UW-Whitewater as a senior swimmer. He was Team Captain his senior season at Fort Atkinson and UW-Whitewater. As an athlete Rob specialized in distance freestyle and was a high school state qualifier, WIAC Second Team All-Conference Swimmer and WIAC Conference Swimmer of the Week. He currently resides in Glendale.
Suzy Paasch
Suzy came to our program in fall of 2008. Coach Paasch is our Lead Developmental Coach heading our Swim League group and runs the Silver Group. Suzy is a business student at UW-M and aspires a degree in accounting. Suzy started her swimming career with the Elmbrook Swim Club in Brookfield, WI. While competing as an age grouper and senior swimmer Suzy she qualified for State, Zone and the Speedo Championships. Suzy's best events were the distance freestyle events. It is not uncommon to still see her training with the Senior team.
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