Coaching Staff
Head Coach Lucy Rudman
My name is Lucy Rudman and I am so excited to serve as the Tigersharks head coach position this season!
When I was less than two years old, I would walk into pools, sink to the bottom, and wait for my parents to hoist me out. Because I loved the water so much (and because I was a drowning risk), I was put in swim lessons at age two. Then, I started swimming competitively when I was four years old. I swam for the University of the South all four years, and finished my competitive swim career in 2022. While I love coaching every stroke, I loved swimming every stroke except butterfly.
I started teaching swim lessons at age 16 and enjoyed my first coaching job as an assistant coach for the St. Andrew's-Sewanee Swim team during their 2022-2023 season at 22. After 3 seasons of assistant coaching, I accepted the SAS head coaching position this year and served my first season as head coach. Additionally, this will be my fourth season working with the Tigersharks team!
I am passionate about competitive swimming, and I cherish celebrating the accomplishments, efforts, and growth of every swimmer on my team. With a firm but enthusiastic approach, I center positivity and proper technique, working with your swimmer to help them achieve their goals.
Assistant Coaches:
Nan Long - Rookie 1
Coach Nan Long returns in her 9th year as the Rookie I coach, bringing many years of coaching experience to the benefit of TigerSharks. Coach Long spent six years coaching with Tullahoma Swim Club as the 10 & Under coach, and spent two years teaching private swim lessons. Additionally, she served as a Mountain Aquatic Club developmental coach from 2015 to 2017.
Coach Long also served as the assistant coach for the SAS Swim Team from 2005-2022, head coach from 2013-2015, and was named Coach of the Year in 2013 by the Middle Tennessee High School Swim Association. Coach Long cannot wait to work with her Rookie swimmers again this summer!
Janey Stevens - Pre-Senior
Hi everyone! I’m Coach Janey and I’ll be working with the pre-seniors this summer. I grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee, about 45 outside of Nashville. I started competitive swim when I was 7, but I’ve always been fond of water. My favorite stroke is freestyle (boring, I know) because you can do events like the 200 and the 500!
I’ve been coaching for almost four years, both with my home team in Clarksville and with the Sewanee Aquatic Club. My favorite part of coaching is watching swimmers not only grow their skills in the pool, but their confidence as athletes and young people!
If I’m not coaching, I’m probably doing school work, singing with the University Choir, drinking a caffeinated beverage, or slipping and falling in a creek somewhere in the Sewanee area. I’m currently working on my degree from Sewanee, and I hope to get a masters (maybe a PhD!) and go on to being a high school teacher or college professor.
I’m super excited for this summer season and can’t wait to meet everyone!
Will Turrell - Junior 1 & 2
My name is Will Turrell, and I’m excited to be returning to coach for Tigersharks this year! I grew up in Sewanee, and I started swimming with Tigersharks when I was 9 years old. Before I joined Tigersharks, I couldn’t make it 10 feet from the wall of the pool without flailing around, but after that first season, I fell in love with swimming.
Since then, I’ve continued to swim, first at McCallie School through middle and high school, where my team won 3 state titles, and now with the club team at Yale University, where I study mechanical engineering.
I began coaching a few years ago, when I assisted with the Junior 1 and 2 groups, and last year I coached the Rookie 2 group. My favorite stroke to swim and teach has always been breaststroke. All the strokes have their own difficulties, but breaststroke in particular creates the challenges that lead to my favorite moments from coaching. There is nothing like the moment after I’ve worked with a swimmer for a long time on some piece of technique, and finally something in their head clicks, and they start swimming around like they were born for it.
Those hard-won moments are what makes coaching so special to me. Yes, I get to teach a life-saving skill, but in addition, I get to teach swimmers how to work through things that aren’t always easy, and I get to share the joy that comes from that hard work paying off as they support the team.
Loulie Frazier - Rookie 2
Bio to come!
