Kevin Stone, Lightning and XTreme Coach

Kevin joins Empire Swimming after thirteen successful years with Middies Swimming.  There, he was the Head Age-Group coach, and ran and worked with swimmers from the developmental level through the Senior Elite. 

From 1996 to 2004 he was the head coach at the Coveleigh Club, part of the Westchester County Swim Conference, where his team won four consecutive County & Conference titles. Kevin was named Conference Coach of the Year in 1996.  He has recently resumed coaching in the conference and is now the head swim coach at American Yacht Club in Rye, NY.

Kevin has coached at USS Zone Distance Camps in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., as well as at a Metropolitan / Connecticut Age-Group Camp, and has traveled to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado to coach at National Select Camps.  Kevin is a Certified Pool Operator, and has achieved level 3 recognition from the American Swim Coaches Association. 

Kevin's swimmers have achieved USA Junior National times, numerous National Age-Group Top 16 rankings, been YWCA National champions, Metro record holders, Metro Junior Olympic champions - short course and long course - and he has regularly placed swimmers on the Metropolitan Zone Teams. In 2001, Kevin was awarded the Metropolitan Age-Group Coach of the Year by the American Swim Coaches Association.

In addition to coaching, Kevin is the computer teacher for grades 4 - 8 at Good Counsel Elementary School in White Plains.