Swim Team Coaching Staff
Mark Maxwell
Coach Maxwell comes to the YAWAMA Swim Club with more than 25 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. 

Mark's swam and played water polo at Oregon City High School and went on to play water polo at Oregon State University and swam at Oregon College of Education. Coach Maxwell graduated from O.C.E. with a degree in elementary education and has 12 years of teaching science and alternative education at the Junior High and Middle School level. He has been married to wife Marie, for over 25 years and they have a daughter and a son.

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. Over the years Mark's swimmers have won state championships in every stroke and age group. 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. Mark was named Coach of the Year in 1996, through Oregon Disability Games Inc. 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 spent time since the 2000 Games studying to become an International Classifier for the International Paralympic Committee which recently took him to China, Germany and Brazil.   
Deb comes to the YAWAMA swim team after several years coaching the novice and age group programs with the Lake Oswego Swim Club.  

Deb Mandeville
She is currently 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 apart 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.

Jen Whitmore
Jen has come in a reserve role. Her swimming history and knowledge of stroke, while teaching lessons here and at the Medford Y, gives her a great foundation in stroke mechanics and she has shown she understands the hard work it takes to be a top level swimmer.

She has been instrumental in maintaining our program as our coaches are dealing with meets. She has been a wonderful addition to the Dragons. 

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 has swam and qualified for high levels of swimming and his insight has been a great addition.