Swim Team Coaching Staff
Mark Maxwell
Coach Maxwell comes to the Sherwood Regional Family YMCA with more than 30 years of coaching experience in Oregon. He has worked with swimmers of all ages and all levels of ability from novice to national level to Paralympian.

Coach Maxwell graduated from O.C.E. with a degree in elementary education and has 12 years of experience teaching science and alternative education at the Junior High and Middle School level.  He has been married to his wife Marie for 30 years and they have a daughter, Heather and a son, Jon.

Mark has served in the governing body of Oregon Swimming Inc. and on several state and national clinic staffs and has been on the staff of the Oregon All-Star Team and the Oregon Western Zone team.  Several of his swimmers have gone on to successful swimming careers at all levels of college from NAIA to Division 1.

While coaching in the 1980s, Mark was involved with the coaching and representing swimmers with physical disabilities through Oregon Swimming and the United States Cerebral Palsy Association.  This has led him into further avenues of training swimmers with a variety of abilities, not only able-bodied swimmers, but children and adults with limitations.  He served as Assistant Coach for the United States  Swim Team for the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona and the USA World Championship team in 1994 in Malta.  In 1996 Mark was named the Head Coach for the USA swim team to the Paralympics in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as in 2000 in Sydney, Australia.  He has had the opportunity to train some of those Paralympians.  Mark has earned status as an International Classifier for the International Paralympic Committee.  He has coached and classified all around the world and recently served as the coach for Alice Luo at the Beijing Paralympics with Taiwan. 

Deb Mandeville
Deb is serving as the assistant coach for YAWAMA swim team after several years coaching the novice and age group programs with the Lake Oswego Swim Club.

She is also the head coach for the Wilsonville High School Swim Team.  Her girls' teams won the state team title three times (2002, 2001, and 2000).  Her swimmers won and set several state event titles and records.  The 2002 team set the record for the most point scored at the 3A-2A-1A State meet.

Deb began swimming in the Bellevue, Washington area and continued through high school.  Her coaching career started out while helping to teach youngsters to swim.  She then moved on to coaching the beginning group at Lake Oswego Swim Club.

She has been a large part of the growth of swimming in Sherwood and here at the Y.  The Dragons are delighted to have Deb with us and turn her experience into successful swimmers and young people here at the Sherwood Regional Family YMCA.

Quentin Rieniets
Quentin grew up in the Dragon program and has stepped into a coaching role with the Sherwood High School. His past background of knowing Coach Maxwell’s program while swimming and coaching in the past gave him instant ability to step into his own group. He swam and qualified for high levels of swimming and his insight has been a great addition.  Quentin also serves as the assistant coach to the Sherwood High School Bowmen Swim Teams.