OCALA, FL (352today.com) – It’s a program that places an emphasis on producing solid citizens, who excel inside and outside of the classroom and not just in the pool.
TekMasters Swim Club is composed of a group of coaches that are home grown, said Tarn Thompson, one of the program’s coaches, who has been in Ocala since 1991, and was previously a high school coach in the area, at Vanguard, Forest and Trinity Catholic. The Team practices at the Jervey Gantt Aquatic Center.
Coach Mark McDonald is a native Ocalan, graduate of Forest High School, and was an All-American at the University of North Dakota, with a resume that has found him swimming, competing and coaching in Ocala. It was Thompson and McDonald who started the first ever Masters program in Ocala, called the Ocala Masters Swim Club…