Coaching Staff

Nate Ryan

Coach Nate has been a member of HATY Swimming for 13 years.

Nate, a seasoned swimmer at the District, State and National level, began his swimming endeavors at the age of 6 with the Hatboro Area YMCA.

At age 12 he was the YMCA PA State Champion in the 50 Butterfly and runner up in the 50 Freestyle.

Nate has made numerous trips to the YMCA of the USA National Meets - both Short Course and Long Course venues.

He competed with Hatboro-Horsham High School and made several trips to the Pennsylvania High School State Championship Meet.

Nate, currently entering into his third year at Shippensburg University, continues to swim competitively and has broken in to Ship's top 20 all time fastest swimmers list in a couple of events.

Melanie Rowland:

Melanie has been a long time fixture of the Hurricane coaching staff. Melanie's strengths are in her work with our developmental swimmers.

Melanie brings years of coaching experience and a great amount of enthusiasm to our developmental team, providing our newer and mid level swimmers with a fun and rewarding experience.

This first impression often translates into a life long participation in the sport.

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Jenny dePadua

Grew up in Stockholm, Sweden.

Coach Jenny started swimming at the age of 8 or 9 and swam competitively for almost 10 years, competing at a National level several times. Jenny's best events were the 200m backstroke, 100m backstroke, and 800m freestyle.

Jenny began to coach beginning swimmers after practice one day a week for about two years while still on her age group swim team. She began attending coaching seminars and camps to develop and improve her coaching skills. Jenny was a swim instructor for a YWCA in Evanston, IL for 2 years.

After moving to the US in 1992, She graduated with a BA, in Biology and Psychology from Bryn Athyn College. Jenny went on to attended Arcadia University's Physician Assistant Program and graduated in 2002. Coach Jenny currently works full time as a pediatric Physician Assistant at Abington Pediatrics.

Swimming is, and has always been coach Jenney's favorite sport and she feels very privileged and happy to have become a part of the coaching staff at HATY. I look forward to coming to practice each night. Jenny enjoys the challenge she is met with to help improve the swimmers and find ways to better her coaching skills.

Melanie Rowland:

Melanie has been a long time fixture of the Hurricane coaching staff. Melanie's strengths are in her work with our developmental swimmers.

Melanie brings years of coaching experience and a great amount of enthusiasm to our developmental team, providing our newer and mid level swimmers with a fun and rewarding experience.

This first impression often translates into a life long participation in the sport.

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Eric Dyke

Long time HATY Swimmer.

Coach Eric has been a member of the Hurricanes for the past 6 years and has competed at the District, State and National level.

Most recently Eric competed at the YMCA of the USA Short Course National Meet in Ft Lauderdale as part of a relay team in the 200 yard and 400 yard Free Relay. This same relay team also medaled in both events at the Pennsylvania State High School Championship in March of 2008.

Graduated from Upper Moreland High School in 2008 and is going on to study at Drexel University in the fall. Eric spent a year abroad in Argentina in a student exchange program.

Eric will be assisting our coaching staff as his schedule at Drexel University permits.

Melanie Rowland:

Melanie has been a long time fixture of the Hurricane coaching staff. Melanie's strengths are in her work with our developmental swimmers.

Melanie brings years of coaching experience and a great amount of enthusiasm to our developmental team, providing our newer and mid level swimmers with a fun and rewarding experience.

This first impression often translates into a life long participation in the sport.

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