
Dave Kelsheimer
CEO Head Coach
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Coach Dave has enjoyed a
successful international coaching career having coached swimmers at
World Championships, Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games and Pan
American Games. During his nearly 10 years at the helm, Coach Dave
enjoyed outstanding success as the Stingray Swim Club and Cayman
Islands National Coach, most notably developing three swimmers to
qualify in six events for the Olympics - an amazing achievement
given constraints of absence of 50m pool space as well as
overcoming the inertia of competitive swimming not enjoying a high
public profile. In the Caribbean Championships, tiny Cayman rose to
second from last missing by just the last relay on the last night
of the meet. Cayman won more events and broke more records than any
other team including Olympic and Commonwealth medal producing
nations Trinidad, Jamaica, and the combined French
islands.
Two of his former Cayman
Swimmers, Shaune and Brett Fraser are now University of Florida
standouts with 3x NCAA champion Shaune receiving more All American
honors than any other athlete in the history of Florida
athletics.
Prior to joining TSM Dave was the Head Coach /General Manager for
Surrey Park Swim Club in Melbourne, Australia for 4 1/2 years. He
was instrumental in the structured development of club swimmers
which has resulted in a marked improvement of the Club at State and
National level championships with Swimmers earning 28 Junior
National & 2 Senior National medals and breaking 17 state
records in all four strokes and the individual medley. Under Coach
Dave Surrey Park was named a Swimming Australia Gold Level Club
(2008, 2009, 2010). Along with a FINA 10k World Cup medal in
Roberval, Canada his open water swimmers have won the Australian
National Championship for the last 3 years in a row.
Additionally, Dave has earned "Coach of the Year" awards 7
times in his career. In 2012, Coach Dave was named to the USA
National Junior Team coaching staff after 3 of his swimmers
qualified to represent the USA at the World Open Water Junior
Championships in Canada.

Brian M Timmerman
Assistant Coach
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Brian was born and raised
in Santa Monica. He swam for Team Santa Monica from 1978-1991.
Brian was a Junior National qualifier and finalist. He also swam at
Long Beach State and UC Davis. He was a NCAA Division 2 National
qualifier/finalist at UC Davis.
He is an ASCA certified level 3 swim coach. Brian has been
coaching for seventeen years, ten of those as a Head Coach, at
Stephen Wise Aquatic Team, Conejo Simi Aquatics, Palisades-Malibu
YMCA and at Westside Aquatics. He has coached swimmers to the USA
swimming Nationals, Junior Nationals, Sectionals, and YMCA
Nationals.
Coach Brian graduated from UC Davis with a degree in English. He
has had his poetry published in the journals Blue Earth Review
and Welter as well as at www.xenith.net. In his spare time, Brian
enjoys marathons, triathlons, and kayaking around Santa Monica Bay.
He lives in West Hills with his wife, Lisa, and two
daughters.

Mary Mitchell
Assistant Coach
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Mary Mitchell is a graduate of Culver City
High School in Culver City, California. She will be attending
Loyola Marymount University where she would like to major in
political science with a law emphasis and eventually obtain a law
degree. She started swimming when she was 7 years old at the Plunge
with one of the first recreational swim clubs in Culver City. She
continued to swim with different club teams over the years and at
12 found a home with Edge Swim Club. She swam with Edge for 2
½ years until she started high school and chose to swim and
play water polo. In the summer of 2006, she returned to the Edge
family as an employee. She currently teaches the
Pre-Competitive group . In 2006 she was employed as a swim
instructor at the Culver-Palms family YMCA.

West Carter
Assistant Coach
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Jimmy Dabney
Assistant Coach
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Jimmy started swimming summer league when
he was eight years old. He grew up in Charlotte, NC and started
swimming year round for Mecklenburg Aquatic Club when he was ten
years old. In High School, he lettered all four years and was voted
MVP as a junior and senior, as well as team captain his senior
year. As a club swimmer Jimmy competed up to the Junior National
level. After graduation, he attended The University of Tennessee
where he swam four years while attaining his undergraduate degree.
As a collegiate swimmer he became a 3-time letterman, 1-time
All-American (800 Free Relay 2007), and the recipient of the team's
hardest worker award in his junior season.
During the 5th year of Jimmy's undergrad he
was a volunteer coach for The University of Tennessee Menýs
Swim Team. This is where he transitioned into coaching. He has
been working the past four years with Pilot Aquatic Club in
Knoxville, TN. Two of these years were with more development
swimmers and two were with the National Group. Jimmy also spent
four years as a high school head coach and four summers as a summer
league coach.
Jimmy received his undergraduate degree in
Business Administration. He took a year off of school to focus on
coaching and then began his masters degree in Sport Psychology and
Motor Behavior. In his last semester, he wrote his thesis on the
power of full engagement in competitive swimming. Jimmy graduated
with this degree December 2012 and moved to Santa Monica in early
2013.

Jesse Casso
Board Member - President
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Jesse Casso has been a member of the TSM
Board since 2010. He is the father of Liliana Casso, a TSM National
Team member and Isabel Casso, a college freshman and former TSM
swimmer. He is the Managing Partner of Casmar Capital and a Board
member of the California Endowment and the Sound Body Sound Mind
Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law
School and the University of California, San Diego.
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Joe Pertel
Board Member - Vice President
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We have two daughters, Anya and Minya, who
have been swimming with TSM for several years. As a board
member, I want to encourage the broadest possible participation in
our programs, from our newest swimmers to our most elite athletes.
By way of background, I graduated from Yale University and
have been practicing law since 1996. Please don't hesitate to
contact me or any member of the board if you have any questions.
Go TSM!

Alan Chen
Board Member - Treasurer
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My son Matthew swims in the
National group and my daughter Angella just graduated after
swimming on TSM. We have been with TSM since 2007,
and we love this community! As being a swimming
family for over ten years, we are able to utilize our experience to
help team.
My goals are to support the
coaches, improve communication between members, and
make our team to be better and stronger.

David Newberg
Board Member - Treasurer Elect
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Having grown up in Santa
Monica, I was excited to move our swimmer to TSM in early 2012.
Audrey Daniels Marcus joined the Otters and set her sights on
moving up the ranks. My goal is to build and improve the
financial foundation of TSM and to increase the city's support
to achieve our goal of local, national and international
recognition for the swimmers and coaches as one of the premier
competitive swim programs in the country.
I have a B.S. in Finance
and Accounting and a M.S. in Finance from the California State
University – Long Beach, along with graduate work in
International Business at the University of Copenhagen. I look
forward to being on the TSM board.

Courtney Caverly
Board Member - Secretary
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After having volunteered in many aspects of
the team, I decided to make my volunteer work
“official” and join the board of TSM. Two of my
three children swim with TSM and I highly value the work ethic that
swimmers must embody to be successful in swimming and in
life. We moved to LA from London in 2005 and my husband,
Marty, signed the kids up immediately with TSM. We
haven’t looked back. On a personal note, I graduated
from Stanford as an English major and then got my MBA from
UCLA. I have recently started a stationery business with
another TSM mom, Tracy Rossie. I am looking forward to my
time on the board of TSM!

Patrick Dodd
Board Member - At Large
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Swimming is a big part of our family life, as all four of us swim
nearly every day and enjoy both pool and open water swimming as
well as short and long-distance triathlons. Our two children have
been swimming with TSM since 2007. Max, our 13-yr old son, is in
the JO Group and Jamie, our 15-yr old daughter, swims in the
National Group. We'll be working hard this year to help our coaches
and swimmers to be as successful as possible and to help drive TSM
toward achieving local, national and international recognition as
the premier competitive pool and open water swim program in Los
Angeles.

April Loncar
Board Member - At Large
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I am so happy to be joining the TSM board!
Our family joined TSM in 2008 and two of my three sons swim.
Hunter, age 14, is in the National Group and Owen, age 9, is an
Otter. I love that swimming teaches kids to work hard and
live a healthy lifestyle that will allow them to achieve their
goals and be successful long after their swimming careers are
over.
After growing up in Honolulu, Hawaii and
met my husband Brett at Arizona State University. Before I had kids
I was an entertainment PR executive. I am looking forward to
working hard to support the coaches and members to make TSM be the
best it can be.