Patrick Underwood

Head Coach: Senior Gold / Blue Seniors

Patrick is originally from Kent, Ohio and grew up swimming in the Northeast Ohio area. He was a member of a Prep School All-American 400 Freestyle Relay team as well as a High School Academic All-American. Upon graduation from Johns Hopkins in 1992, where he swam and played water polo, he became an assistant for the NCAA National oriented men's and women's swimming programs as well as men's water polo. While at JHU he became the Head Assistant Swimming Coach in charge of the distance group and Aquatics Director.

Also at this time Patrick began assisting Ted Bresnahan at the Goucher Branch of GBSA and two years later with the Catonsville Branch. In the fall of 1999 Patrick took the role of Head Coach for GBSA South. In his time at the Catonsville Branch (which became the sole GBSA site in 2001) the program has grown considerably in numbers as well as having increasingly greater successes in the pool. His program is built around technique improvement and a flexible, positive environment in which athletes may choose to commit more and more time to the sport as their desire grows. Each year the club improves in all aspects of operation and continues to provide an excellent place for development of talent.

We as a coaching staff look to encourage each swimmer to become the best they can be and take what is most positive from the sport of swimming. We hope to see greater numbers of GBSA swimmers dedicating themselves to excellence and help them attain higher and higher levels of accomplishment. This is done by constantly trying to achieve perfection in competitive swimming skills in all levels of athlete, from the 6-year-old novice to the 17-year-old Sectional qualifier. As the athletes become increasingly excited about their improvements they naturally want to dedicate more of their time for even better results.

Darlene Rehmert

Assistant Coach

Darlene Rehmert is in her second season at GBSA, bringing with her many years of experience as a coach and a swimmer. Coach Darlene started swimming at the age of 4 at Five Oaks Swim Club and continued to build her swimming career as a year round swimmer at the Catonsville YMCA. She continued swimming through college, becoming a record breaker and Conference medal winner for Washington College in Maryland. Darlene is an honors graduate of both Washington College and Towson University with degrees in Economics and Business Management. She is currently completing her MBA at Loyola College.

Darlene coached for the Rolling Road Golf Club swim team for 10 years and during 7 of those years she also coached at Five Oaks Swim Club where she led the team to become the Division III Champions. She continued her coaching career at Retriever Aquatic Club where she was appointed as the Head Age Group coach for the last 3 years of her 6 years with the team. As head age group coach, Darlene coached a number of top 16 swims. In addition, Coach Darlene has been chosen to represent Maryland Swimming on numerous occasions as a Maryland Swimming Zone Team coach. Beyond Darlene's hands-on coaching experience she also has been a member of ASCA for over 10 years and has completed her level I ASCA training.

Darlene believes that it is important to emphasis stroke improvement with each and every swimmer. Her positive attitude and enthusiasm helps to keep the swimmers focused and ready to tackle their goals. She is excited to be a part of the GBSA family.

Mike Raley

Assistant Coach: Blue Juniors

Mike returned to GBSA after coaching at the previous Towson site during the years of 1995-1999. Mike has coached around the area for 17 years that include teams: NBAC, LBA, GBSA and Merritt Master’s team summer 06. Mike was a graduate of Loyola High class of 92, he then attended Arizona Sate University from 92-94, Essex CC 95-96 and finally gained a degree in Elementary Education (with a specialization in Special Education) from Goucher College in 1999. Mike is currently working towards a master’s degree in counseling.

As an athlete Mike achieved the following accomplishments: Olympic Trial qualifier 92, NCAA Division 1 qualifier in 92-93, NCAA Division 3 qualifier in 96-97, Capital Atlantic Conference record holder and was MD state record holder in several breastroke and I.M. age-group events (til another Michael came along and broke them all).

Mike is currently a Behavior Specialist and Crisis Counselor for Baltimore County Public schools and works out of Windsor Mill Middle School in Randallstown. Mike lives in Towson, is married and welcomed their first child in December 2009.

Sara Florio

Assistant Coach: White I

Sara began swimming competitively at age 8 and she swam through her senior year of high school. Sara has been coaching since 1992. She is a Level 2 ASCA certified coach and has also been trained as a Red Cross WSI. She has coached for USS, CMSL, IAAM and Masters teams.

Sara loves swimming and strives to provide an atmosphere of encouragement for swimmers to help better refine their techniques, build endurance, learn from past experiences and improve competitive performances. She believes in starting with small, fundamental elements and building upon that foundation with the goal of helping swimmers persevere to reach their fullest potential. Sara enjoys coaching and looks forward to gaining more knowledge and experience while promoting team unity and encouraging swimmers to strive to meet their goals.

Logan Smith

Assistant Coach: Blue Juniors

Logan Smith returns to GBSA as an assistant coach this year. Previously he was an assistant coach at GBSA North from 1998-2000. Other coaching duties have included assistant coach of Dulaney Swim Club (1998) and head coach of the Eagles Nest Swim Club from 1999-2000. Logan is a 2003 graduate of Gettysburg College where he co-captained the Gettysburg College Swim Team from 2001-2002.

Logan excels at motivation and breaking down stroke technique for the overall betterment of each swimmer. His swimmers will receive enthusiasm and discipline at every practice for the long term goal of being qualified for the Blue Juniors.

Kellian Kennedy

Assistant Coach: Minis

This is Kellian’s first year at GBSA. She coached last summer with the Taylor Village Tiger Fish. She is a lifelong swimmer, joining her first swim team at age 5.

As the Mini coach, her main focus is to help swimmers enjoy and love swimming while learning good technique, gaining endurance, and improving speed. She enjoys working with younger swimmers and helping them find success and challenges at practice and competitions.

Lenore Cruz

Assistant Coach

Lenore Cruz has been involved with GBSA for most of her life. Now in her second year of coaching for us, Lenore still holds several team records from her time on the team, and she was also Coach Patrick’s first sectional qualifier. She swam for the team from when she was eight years old until she went to college to swim for Towson University with Coach Pat Mead.

Coach Lenore received her B.S. from Towson University, and she is now working on her M.S. in Occupational Therapy. Forever a swimmer, Lenore is excited to continue her involvement with GBSA!