Eric Peterson

Eric is entering his sixth year with the Sharks program. He is also the head coach for the Shaker Heights High School program. He was the Lake Erie League coach of the year from 2002 - 2007. Eric graduated from Kent State University. Prior to coming to Shaker, Eric was the head coach for the Kent Roosevelt High School team and the Western Reserve Seariders. Eric has served as the head counselor for Richard Quick and Skip Kenney’s National Stanford University Swim Camp. Currently, Eric is a swim instructor at Woodbury Elementary School.

Rob Fellinger

Rob was an All-American Hawken High School swimmer and an All-American swimmer at Ohio Wesleyan. Rob has a master’s degree in Education. Rob coached the Shaker Sharks and High School swimmers for nine years. For seven years, he taught in Shaker as an elementary school teacher. Rob will be working with the Select Youth and High School swim programs.

Tina McCauley

Tina is a Shaker physical education teacher and a shark coach for the past six years. Tina was the head swim coach at the Louisville YMCA for six years. Tina is a graduate from Kent State University and John Carroll University: undergraduate degrees in Physical Education and Leisure Service Management and a master’s degree in Educational Administration. In 2005 and 2006, Tina was a Lake Erie Zone Coach. In 2007, she was the Central Zone Meet Director. Tina will be coaching the Youth Sharks as well as the Middle School swim team.

Brendan Pham

Brendan has been with the Shaker Sharks since its inception twenty years ago. He has a master’s degree in Mathematics from Cleveland State University. Brendan will work with the Youth Sharks and Middle School swim team throughout the year. Brendan loves anything with chocolate in it.

Bryan Wamsley

Bryan (fourth year as a shark coach) swam with the Shaker Sharks from 1988 through 1997. Bryan was an All-American Shaker High School swimmer. Bryan graduated from Princeton University in 2001. He also holds a master’s degree in Education from John Carroll University. Bryan was a 2007 Lake Erie Zone Coach. He is currently a second grade teacher at Hawken School.

Sarah Tobin

This is Sarah’s ninth year with the Sharks. Sarah was the head coach at Cleveland Heights High School and Notre Dame Cathedral Latin. Also, Sarah was the swim coach at Forest Hill Swim Club. Sarah manages the Sharks; she takes care of all the fees and paper work for the Shaker swimming program. Currently, Sarah is a swim instructor at Woodbury Elementary School and is the pool manager for the City of Mayfield Heights in the summer. She is also the Lake Erie Zone Chair.

Vickie Ryan

This is Vickie’s first year coaching with the Sharks. She coached for six years with the Akron Firestone swimming team. She was an All-American swimmer at Firestone High School. She swam for four years at Akron University. She has an undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Education. Currently she is a substitute teacher in the Shaker school district.

Barbara Washington

This is Barb’s first year with the Sharks. She has many years of swimming instruction experience with the City of Cleveland and Shaker Recreation Departments. Barb holds a master’s degree in Education. For the past 17 years, Barb has been a Special Education teacher with the Twinsburg City Schools.

Ernest Welsch

Mr. Welsch founded and still directs the Shaker Sharks Swimming Program. He is a graduate of Temple University, Penn State and Cleveland State University with a variety of degrees in recreation, health, physical education and exercise physiology. Welsch, the head Shaker High School Swimming Coach from 1982 to 2002, was voted Northeast Ohio Women’s or Men’s High School Swimming Coach of the Year ten times. Mr. Welsch was also voted State High School Coach of the year for women in 1995 and for men in 1998. Mr. Welsch was inducted into The Ohio High School Swimming Coaches Hall of Fame in 2005. “King” Welsch has been teaching Physical Education in the Shaker School District for twenty seven years.