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Coaches
2011

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Adam
Parker Is coming back to Hobson West Waves for
his seventh coaching season. He welcomes all the new and returning
swimmers to the team. Adam has been with the waves since the summer
of 1996, starting off as a tiny five-year-old, swimming with the
team for all thirteen years. Adam is currently enrolled in the
University of Iowa as a sophomore majoring in elementary education
with an emphasis on mathematics. At Iowa, Adam is a re-founding
father for his Phi Delta Theta fraternity and is the current executive
new member educator as well as parents club coordinator. He swam
for Naperville central for all four years of high school, and
swam for the varsity team his sophomore through senior years.
He keeps busy at Iowa swimming in his free time and playing for
the Iowa club water polo team. Adam is looking forward to a very
successful season this year for the waves and is excited to get
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Jack Howenstine
will be a second year lead assistant coach with the Waves 2011
Swim Team. A former Wave swimmer and water polo player, Jack is
in his six year of coaching the Hobson West Water Polo teams.
A 2009 graduate of NCHS, Jack was a 4 year member of the swim
team. A varsity swimmer his junior and senior years on teams with
5 th and 6 th places finishes at state, Jack was honored as one
of two NCHS boys named All-American Academic Swimmers his senior
year. A four year water polo player as well, Jack was a captain
his senior year. The NCHS water polo had 2 nd and 3 rd place state
finishes Jack's junior and senior years. In May, Jack completed
his second year at the Kelley School of Business and Hutton Honor
College at Indiana University. A resident advisor his sophomore
year, Jack plans on studying in Germany his junior year. He is
a four semester Founders Scholar Award winner at IU. |
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Jay Howenstine
graduated from Naperville Central HS in May. This past swim season
with the Redhawks, Jay was a member of the Sectional winning and
State RunnerUp Team, was Academic All Conference, a DVC Honorable
Mention swimmer and closed out 4 years at NCHS winning Most Mischievous
Swimmer a 4th consecutive time. In 2010 as a member of the State
Champion Redhawks at NCHS, Jay earned a varsity letter, and was
a member of the Sectional and State Teams, a State Qualifier,
and recognized as Honorable Mention DVC All Conference,
and Academic All Conference. Jay was the captain of the
NCHS water polo team, 2011 Sectional Champion, a First Team Sectional
Polo player, Academic All Conference, a pre-season Ill.polo honorable
mention and a post-season Ill.polo award winner. Between swimming
and water polo, Jay earned six varsity awards at NCHS and four
state medals. Jay began swimming while living in Atlanta, failed
miserably, stuck with it while living in California, and has been
a Wave since 2001. Jay will attend the University of Kentucky
in the fall.
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Jen Schafman swam
with the Hobson West Waves from the age of 5 until the age of
17 when she graduated from NCHS. Jen also played water polo for
the Waves from their
inaugural season until she aged out. Jen has won awards for swimming
and water polo
including Most Dedicated and Most Valuable. This is Jen's fourth
year of coaching with the
Waves swim team. Jen was previously a Wave Runner for the team.
She has also assisted
in coaching water polo. Additionally, Jen is a certified USA swim
coach having coached pre-
core for the Maverick Swim Club in Naperville and coaching the
novice age group for the
Bloomington Waves USA Swim Club while attending Illinois State
University where she is
pursuing a degree in bi-lingual elementary education. Jen also
is a certified YMCA Swim and
Dive Instructor. She also lifeguards and teaches swim lessons
at Hobson West.
GO WAVES! |
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Katrina Walter
started swimming at age seven with West Suburban Dolphins. That
summer she joined Hobson West. She has been a member of Delta
Aquatics and Maverick swim clubs. Katrina swam varsity for all
four years at Waubonsie Valley High School. Achieving the sectional
team all four years. During her high school swimming career,
Katrina earned Academic All-American each year and was awarded
overall Academic All-American status her senior year. In addition
to her swimming career Katrina played water polo for Hobson West
for one year and JV/V water polo for WVHS her freshman and sophomore
years. Katrina began working at Hobson West pool as a lifeguard
during the summer of 2007 and started coaching, as a junior coach,
the following summer. Last year, she was the assistant coach in
charge of the six and under age group at Hobson West. She is very
excited to be returning this year and to be working with the eleven/twelve
age group. She looks forward to a fun and successful summer!
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Stephanie Jackson
I have been swimming for the Hobson West Waves since I
was 6 years old. This will be my 10 th summer with the Waves.
I enjoyed swimming so much I decided to join club swimming.
At age 7 I started swimming for the Maverick Swim Club and
have just completed my 9 th season. Since the age of 10, I have
qualified for the Illinois State Meet in the Butterfly and the I.M.
This past season I have achieved a personal goal of making
it to sectional meet held in Minnesota. I qualified in the100 and
200 Fly, 400 IM and the 200 Breast. I am currently attending Naperville
Central High School, and swimming as a Varsity Redhawk. I
am excited to be a part of the Waves coaching staff and am thrilled
to share my passion for swimming with our younger swimmers! Go Waves!!
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Lauren Glodowski
will be a first year assistant coach on the 2011 HWST, after previously
being a wave runner for the team. Lauren first started swimming
at the age of 5 with the Breckenridge Breakers in Virginia and has
been swimming with the Hobson West Waves since she was 9. She joined
Maverick Swim Club when she was 11 and has been swimming year-round
with them ever since. Lauren is currently swimming as a Varsity
Redhawk on Naperville Central's high school team, earning Academic
All American awards both her freshmen and sophomore year, and plans
to continue swimming with the team through her junior and senior
year. She is very excited to be coaching this year and knows it
will be an awesome and successful season! GO WAVES! |
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| Junior
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Madison Nervig
started swimming at Hobson West 6 years ago and has swum for Mavericks
for the past 4 years. This past winter she competed at Regionals
and went a personal best in the 100 Free Style! During High School
season Madison was able to go personal bests in the 200 and 500
free at her Championship Meet. As well as swimming Madison has also
played water polo for 6 years as well, for Hobson West, West Suburban
and Naperville Central Redhawks! She's super excited for this season!
Let's Go WAVES! |
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Connor Lamb
has been swimming with the Hobson West Waves since he was 4 years
old. Connor has also been a swimmer for the Mavericks since he was
seven. Competing on a statewide level With the Mavericks, Connor
has placed in the top 10 even claiming a second place. Connor swam
on the Varsity Swim Team in high school and was on the State Team
that got second this year. He also was named to the All Academic
DVC team. He also played Water Polo in his freshmen year of high
school. He started playing water polo for the Waves when he was
eight. This will be Connors first year as a coach but he has
been a wave runner for the past two years. He is looking forward
to working with the younger kids and is excited for the season.
Go Waves! |
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Alex
Walter has been swimming since the age of 7. He
has been with Hobson West for seven summers. He currently swims
with the Maverick Swim Club. Alex has also been a part of Team
Illinois Midstate team. As a freshman this year, he swam on Metea
Valley High Schools varsity team, and was a part of the
state qualifying 200 Medley relay. Alex also likes to hang out
with his friends, play water polo and sing with the Madrigal group
at his high school. He is looking forward to coaching this summer! |
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