MAC Coaching Staff

Lin Kostelny

Head Diving Coach

divingcoachlk@hotmail.com

• Swam and dove competitively
• Coached since 1966
• Has been w/ Methacton High School since 1982
• Has been w/ MAC for 20+ years

Dawn Linde

Head Girls  Coach

linded@comcast.net

I started swimming when I was six years old for the North Penn Aquatic Club and Towamencin Swim Team.  I also played water polo and swam for NorthPenn High School.  My swimming career unfortunately came to an end my junior year of high school due to an injury.  I graduated from Kutztown University in 2004 with a degree in Elementary Education/Early Childhood.  Right now I am a substitute teacher for two area school districts.  I am in the process of finding a permanent teaching job and plan to go back to school for my Masters next year.

            I taught swim lesson to children of all ages for about seven years at various swim programs.  Two years ago, I decided that I wanted to get back into competitive swimming and coach.  I began my coaching career in 2005 at the North Penn YMCA, where I was the Head Boys and Girls Coach.  For the past two summers I have been an assistant coach for the Towamencin Swim Team.  This will be my second season with MAC as the Girls Head Coach.

            I believe swimming has helped me to become the person that I am today.  It has taught me how to manage my time, work hard, achieve goals, and work with others.  My goals as a coach are to pass on what I have learned throughout my years of swimming and continue to help with the rebuilding of this swim team.  I am very excited to be coming back to MAC, we had an awesome first season and I look forward to another! I also look forward to seeing all of our returning families as well as meeting all of the new ones.

Dana Hazard

Head Boys  Coach

Julie Good

Assistant  Coach

I started swimming when I was 8 years old for the Lansdale swim team in the summer and for NPAC in the winters.   I played water polo and swam for North Penn High school from 1996-2000 and after high school I went on to swim for Gettysburg College.  I graduated from college in 2004 with my Bachelors of Science degree in Biology and then from Thomas Jefferson University in 2006 with my Masters of Science degree in Microbiology.  I am currently working at a small pharmaceutical company in Doylestown, Immunotope, Inc., where we do research on cancer and infectious diseases.

            From the time I was 15, I have been teaching swim lessons to all ages at both North Penn and Manufacturer's Golf and Country Club, where I was also a lifeguard or manager for 6 years.   After being away from the pool for a little while, I returned to help Dawn with the North Penn YMCA team two years ago, and was an assistant coach for MAC last year.     

I really feel that swimming helped shape the person I am today - giving me a strong work ethic, an ability to work well with and get along with others, the desire to set and reach goals and a drive to succeed and I look forward to passing on all the things I learned to the next wave of swimmers.

Ben Yoder

Assistant  Coach

I swam at Henderson High School and had All American times in the 100 Back and 200 IM.  I swam in college at Clarion University>.  I coached for 4 years at Coatesville High School and 2 years at Methacton.  I also ran a clinic for 2 summers at the Coatesville Country Club.  This will be my 2^nd year with MAC

Kim Sykes

Assistant  Coach

        Swimming is something I have always loved to do.  I was a competitive swimmer since the age of 5.  I first swam at Penbryn pool in Abington.  Then I swam for the Abington Dolphins during the winter months.  I continued swimming through my high school years at Abington High School and just enjoyed every minute of it.  Throughout high school and my college summers, I was a lifeguard and swim coach at North Hills Country Club.  At that time I was also a swimmer on the Huntingdon Valley Country Club team.  Now my children both swim there.  Before I had my children, I was a coach at Abington Dolphins for three years, specifically working with the younger swimmers.
         One of the best things about swimming is the fact that it is a team sport, while also being an individual sport.  Racing against the clock and doing a best time is a great accomplishment, no matter what place you finished in the race.  In my many years of swimming and coaching, the most fun I have had is watching the kids I coached, and my own children, succeed!  I look forward to that this year with MAC!  
         I graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida with a degree in Elementary Education.  Currently I am the Director and Pre-K teacher of Methacton Mennonite Preschool.  I have been teaching there for 4 years.  My husband, Steve, and I have been married for 14 years and we have two girls, Becca 11, and Emily 8.  They are both swimmers at MAC.

Colleen Good

Assistant  Coach

I started swimming when I was six with the Lansdale> swim team. After that I continued through high school with summer swimming and also winter swimming with the YMCA and North Penn Aquatic Club. I graduated from North Penn in 2002 and during my 4 years of high school I played water polo and swam. I went to Ithaca College in NY where I joined the crew team. For my 4 years of my undergraduate degree I had the opportunity to race throughout the northeast, spring break in >Georgia for training at the site of the 1996 Olympics, and travel to California for NCAA's where we won the Division III team championship.  I spent summers during high school and college teaching group and private swim lessons.  I also helped run swim meets and coach the Manufacturers' Golf and Country Club swim team when they needed extra help.