Local swim coach earns Philadelphia Scholastic Coach of the Year Award

Science Management Academy swim coach Beth Menasion says she’s all the time been a swim mother, however by no means anticipated to be a swim coach. She merely wished to deliver alternative to the varsity’s swim group.

Earlier this 12 months, she additionally led the boy’s crew to their first-ever Philadelphia Public League Championship.

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On Tuesday, at a ceremony at Temple College, Menasion obtained her award on the Philadelphia Coaches Convention.

“It is an honor, clearly I’m very humbled,” Menasion says. “It is not one thing I ever anticipated. I want all the children in our metropolis had the chance for aquatics instruction and to be on a aggressive swim crew.”

She additionally says there is a dire want for a spot for the children to swim and prepare.

As for being a lady teaching the boy’s crew, Menasion says she’s a mother of two boys and the crew calls her “Coach Mother.”

Philadelphia’s personal Corridor of Famer and Olympian Daybreak Staley, recent off her second Nationwide Championship win as head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks, was additionally the keynote speaker at Tuesday’s occasion.