Mark Kohnhorst
Executive Director/Head Coach
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Mark is the Lake
Country Swim Team Executive Director and Head Coach,
as well as being the lead coach for
Senior Silver & Bronze and Senior Silver HS.
Mark brings 38 years of experience to the program as a
coach, swimmer and parent. Mark began coaching with the Hartford
Swim Club and Hartford HS in 1980, coaching the Boy's and Girl's
teams through to 1991. Mark's coaching career with LAKE began as
the Hartford Program coach in 1987, being promoted to the Head Age
Group coach in 1991. He assumed Head Coach and Executive Director
responsibilities in 2002.
Raised, and still living,
in Hartford Wisconsin, Mark is married to wife of 26 years, Darsi,
and has three children, Whitney, Devin and Aiden. When not on the
deck or in the office, he enjoys putzing around the house and other
activities such as cards, X-Box, 'driveway-H-O-R-S-E' and family
board games. His favorite food is a grilled, medium-rare rib eye
steak, with sweet onion slices and portabella mushrooms, done on
his patio on a warm summer evening. Mark's favorite music, as few
need to be told, is the Good Ol' Grateful Dead!
Robert M Jenkyns
Head Age Group/Junior Coach
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Bob is the Lake Country Swim Team Head Age Group
Coach and the Business Manager, as well
as being the lead coach for the
Junior training group.
Bob is also the Head Boy’s Swim Coach for Arrowhead HS and
the Co-Head Girl’s Swim Coach for Hartford HS. Bob, and his
wife Kristen, call the beautiful city of Hartford their home.
Besides coaching, their lives are very busy with four teenage
children – Danielle, Melanie, Chris and Kyle, two dogs (Bear
and Scooter), a cat (Romeo) and two horses (Chance and
Madison).
Bob is a graduate of Lakeland College with a degree in Business
Administration. He has 26 years of high school and club coaching
experience with the last 14 while at LCST and AHS both as a coach
and parent. He is
certified by the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) as an
ASCA level 5 (high school), level 4 (age group) and level 4 (USA
swimming) coaching qualifications. He has also received numerous
recognitions for his team’s accomplishments, the most recent
being an opportunity to speak at the National Interscholastic
Swimming Coaches Association (NISCA) national convention in March
of 2007. His Arrowhead High School Mens and Womens teams have
won the Wisconsin D1 State Championship title 9 times. Bob has also
been nominated 15 times as Wisconsin Interscholastic Swimming
Coaches Association "Coach of the Year" winning it 5 times.
In his spare time off the deck, he enjoys football (Go Packers!),
fishing, and thinking of creative and innovative ways to challenge
his swimmers! His favorite vacation spots with the family are
Myrtle Beach, SC and Kauai, HI. His favorite snacks are Diet
Mountain Dew and Peanut M&M’s, while watching his
favorite TV shows, "Everybody Loves Raymond", “The
Office” and "Seinfeld". Bob’s favorite restaurants are
the Meat ’n’ Place, Texas Roadhouse and the
Mineshaft!
Tom Coons
Senior Assistant Coach
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Tom is the Lake Country Swim Team Senior Coach. He coaches
the Senior Gold and Senior
Sterling Silver training groups.
Coach Tom has been coaching for 19 years. Tom swam for
Lakeside Swim Club (Louisville, KY) and graduated from University
of Louisville with a degree Finance. Tom then moved to
Illinois to coach at Northern Illinois University (92-97).
Tom left collegiate coaching to coach club in the Chicago area for
the past 10 years. Tom is ASCA Level 4 and is an American Red
Cross Instructor.
In his free time, Tom enjoys listening to music and
gardening. Tom hopes to find time for a sailboat. His
favorite foods are Indian and Chicago stuffed pizza.
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Ruth Ann Ahnen
Age Group Gold/Bronze Coach
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Ruth Ann is the coach for the Phoenix’s Bronze and Gold Team.
Coach Ruth Ann was a competitive swimmer for 11 years in Wisconsin
and Missouri. She was a state champion and record holder in high
school. She attended the University Of Missouri. She coached
swimming in PA before moving to WI with her family 2 years ago. She
is going into her 2nd year of coaching for the Phoenix.
She has her level 2 certification with the ASCA. Coach Ruth Ann and
her husband Tony have 2 children, Katie 16, who swims for AHS and
Matthew, 13, who swims for Lake Country
When not at the pool, Coach Ruth Ann is busy with her own home
based business and spending time with her family. She loves to read
and think of new things to try with the kids at the pool to keep
practices interesting and fun.
Whitney J Witt
Hartford Facility Coach/Novice Director
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Whitney is the Phoenix's Novice
Director and the coach for all levels at the
Hartford Pool. This is her 8th year with the
team as a coach, however, she swam for the team for 11 years.
You can find Whitney in the team office during the day and on deck
in the evening.
Whitney currently resides in Hartford, WI with her husband,
Dave. She and Dave enjoy playing cards, board games and
watching movies and sports on TV.
Whitney loves teaching children of all ages about the
wonderful world of competitive swimming. She cares deeply
about every child she works with and absolutely loves how much they
all make her smile and laugh!
Theodore W Krueger
Age Group Silver/Super 8 Coach
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Swimming Background:
-started swimming at age 6 for LCST
-swam for AHS - State Champs 1995 and 1997 - Go Hawks!
-100 back state record
-200 FR and 200 MR state record
-100 back national HS record for scy
-swam for UW-Madison - Go Badgers!
-100 and 200 back team records
-swam at the 2000 Olympic Trials in Indianapolis
I have been coaching with the team since 2000 and currenty run
the super 8 and age group silver program. I also work for the
City of Waukesha in their IT department.
