FAST FALCONS COACHES
The FAST Falcons elite coaching staff are committed to leading our team towards competitive excellence. We will ensure a safe, healthy, and positive environment for all of our athletes, while helping them to reach their fullest potential.
ALLISON
BEEBE
HEAD COACH
HEAD COACH ALLISON BEEBE
ABOUT
Coach Allison Beebe’s coaching career brings valuable experience and knowledge from coaching at the international, national, collegiate, and age-group levels. She has guided over 100 swimmers to compete at the collegiate level and has developed three US National Team swimmers, one of whom, won an Olympic gold medal. Beebe comes to FAST after spending five years with the Santa Clara Swim Club, where she was the High Performance Lead Coach and interim Head Coach. While at Santa Clara, Beebe coached multiple nationally ranked swimmers including two #1 nationally ranked swimmers and six first-time US Olympic Trials or World Champ Trials qualifiers. Beebe also served as an assistant coach for the Cali Condors, who were the 2020 ISL Team Champions. Additionally, Beebe was the head coach of the First Colony Swim Team in Sugar Land, TX. During her tenure, FCST tripled in size, expanded into four new facilities, and became a USA Swimming Gold Medal Team. Coach Beebe had three swimmers who represented the US at multiple World Championship, Pan Pacific, and Pan American Games. One swimmer, Simone Manuel, broke the 100-yard freestyle American record. Aside from developing swimmers, Coach Beebe has mentored several coaches who later became Head Age Group Coaches, Head Coaches, and USA Swimming staff members. She has also volunteered for numerous USA Swimming and LSC committees.
ANNE
SHAWHAN
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT ANNE SHAWHAN
ABOUT
Coach Shawhan brings extensive coaching and training experience to the FAST Falcons. She has coached all levels of swimming and lessons from parent and toddler classes, learn-to-swim, and the competitive level and holds a degree in Sports Management. With collegiate coaching experience at Florida State University, Louisiana State University, and University of Colorado, Coach Shawhan has the knowledge to manage and coach a roster of multiple swimmers. Aside from coaching experience, Coach Shawhan has her own aquatic accomplishments including competing in the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials at the age of 15 and earning the rights to a five-time All American Swimmer at FSU.
GEMMA
FLEMING
DIRECTOR OF LESSONS
DIRECTOR OF LESSONS GEMMA FLEMING
ABOUT
Coach Fleming is former competition swimmer who represented Great Britain in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, FINA world championships and European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games. Coach Fleming is the former world record-holder and 2009 world champion in the 100m backstroke and won a total of eight medals in major international championships. In 2020, she was inducted to the Hall of Fame at the University of Florida, where she was a five-time NCAA champion, NCAA record holder, 18-time All-American Selection, 2009 SEC Female Swimmer of the Year, eight-time All-SEC Selection, four-time SEC champion, and four-time SEC record holder. Coach Fleming also taught lessons under SwimAmerica of Gainesville, FL for 12+ years. She is ESE certified and has worked in the public education system as a school counselor for 7 years. Her life philosophy is “empathy and kindness, together with hard work and dedication will take you far.”
EMILY MILAK
ASSISTANT COACH
ASSISTANT COACH EMILY MILAK
ABOUT
Emily comes to the FAST Falcons with a broad range of experience. As a coach, parent, and former elite level athlete she brings a unique perspective on long term athlete development.She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2005 with a B.A. Journalism and a Minor in Exercise Physiology emphasis in Sport Psychology. She was a team captain for 2 years.
On deck, she has been fortunate to work and learn alongside some coaching greats.
In Arizona she shared a deck with Bob Gillet, Roric Fink, and Frank Busch while coaching for Arizona Desert Fox and Tucson Ford. As a head age group coach for Blue Tide Aquatics in Houston Texas she coached multiple swimmers to top three finishes at Texas Age Group Championships (TAGS), placed swimmers on the National Select Team, and was selected as the head coach for the Gulf Zones team. Emily has coached age group, high school and masters for the past 25 years. She is working on her level 3 coaching certification with ASCA.
She has written for Swimming World Magazine as well as Kiefer Aquatics.
As a swimmer Emily has represented the United States on the National team from 1998 to 2006. She has competed at two World Championships, Pan Pacific Championships, Goodwill Games and 2 Duel in the Pools. She is a 3 time NCAA Champion and still holds an NCAA record. She is a US national champion and placed third in the 2000 Olympic Trials in the 200 fly.
CAMERON RASMUSSEN
ASSISTANT COACH
ASSISTANT COACH CAMERON RASMUSSEN
ABOUT
Cameron began coaching in Ames, Iowa while studying exercise science at Iowa State University. In Iowa, Cameron was a member of the coaching staff at Ames High School, a team that became the most dominant program in Iowa history after winning 9 of the last 12 state titles. During his time there, he was fortunate to work alongside and learn from some great coaches and swimmers. Many of whom went on to swim at the Division I, II, and III levels. Cameron comes to FAST from Colorado, where he was the Head Coach at Boulder High School and an assistant for one of the top club teams in the state, Elevation Athletics.
Cameron is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
JOEY LANE
ASSISTANT COACH
ANDREW LAZAR
JUNIOR ASSISTANT COACH
FAST STAFF
KEVIN
MILAK
FACILITIES DIRECTOR
FACILITIES DIRECTOR KEVIN MILAK
ABOUT
Kevin Milak has never been away from the water, swimming competitively through college and transitioning into a career of aquatics. For most of his professional career, he has been a part of non-profit, member-based community organizations. Kevin has led and directed programs serving a large base of members, centered on aquatics programming ranging from learn-to-swim initiatives and after-school care to international-level competitive athletes and competitions. Kevin has spent time in every facet of a large, multipurpose facility from front line to leadership, as Lifeguard, Instructor, Camp Counselor, Program Director, Membership, Coach, Technician, Meet Director and Facility Director. He has his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Exercise Science & Health Promotion, and holds certifications from USA Swimming (coaching, officiating), USA Diving (meet director), American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA Level 4), Pool & Hot Tub Alliance (Certified Pool Operator, Aquatic Risk Management) and the American Red Cross (Lifeguard, Safety Training for Swim Coaches, CPR/AED/First Aid and Lifeguard Instructor). He has prepared and secured bids from multiple Local Swimming Committees, USA Swimming, UANA (now PanAm Aquatics), USA Diving, NCAA, College Swim Coaches Association, and numerous local clubs and partner organizations. Milak has also served as meet director for the National Club Swimming Association’s Championship meets since its inception in 2002 and has been meet director for countless USA Swimming LSC Championships, Zone and Sectional Championships in both Wisconsin and Indiana.
Jill Severin
BUSINESS MANAGER
NATE JAFFE
AQUATICS SUPERVISOR
