COACH BIOS

Coach Stephanie swam club for 14 years, including in high school and college. She swam for Colorado State all 4 years on an athletic scholarship and was team captain her senior year. She began coaching at Autumn Ridge when she moved back to Ft Wayne in 2016. The following fall she started at TRAC with the Platinum group. She took over the head coach position and is currently the head coach for the HPB site of Summit City Aquatics. Stephanie has coached top 10 placing athletes at Age Group State as well as Senior State. She coached Snider boys and girls swim team in 2017 and led them to become SAC Champions and she also had swimmers place top 16 at the High School State Championship meet. She is married to Carlton and they have 3 kids together; Kieran, Koa, and Kalei.

Coach Bryce swam club for 13 years at SWAC and all 4 years of High School at Homestead. He has been a student coach for both Summit Middle School and SWAC while in High School. He was a team manager for Indiana University for 3 years while studying Neuroscience. While at IU, he worked with several Olympic athletes, world-record holders and learned from Team USA coaches. He started his coaching career at Summit City Aquatics in 2022 as the Exploration coach and assisting with the Gold and high school groups. Bryce is engaged to his fiancé Harley and set to wed in the Fall of 2024. Welcome to Poco, Bryce!

Assistant swim coach, Nick Eddy just finished his senior year at Bishop Dwenger High School. He has been a Poco lifeguard for the past 3 years and coached our swim team the past 4 seasons. He started competing in the Fort Wayne Summer Swim league at 7 years old at Glen Aqua then Blackhawk. He has been in the top 8 at Age Group State 8 times individually and 6 times on a relay team. He swam for Bishop Dwenger for 4 years and was All-SAC all 4 years. He has won the 200 IM at the SAC meet 2 years consecutively. He has swam year round for TRAC/SCA for 9 years where he currently swims in the HPB Senior group. Nick cannot wait to use his experience to teach your young swimmer the fundamentals, stroke and turn techniques for another great summer at POCO!

I’m Tyler Kaiser, 21 years old and will be beginning my third year at Trine University studying Sports Management next fall. I’ve been diving for eight years and this will be my seventh year coaching. I’m the aquatics coordinator at the YMCA of Steuben County along with an assistant swim coach for Angola High School and the Angola Wavemakers. This will be my fifth year coaching at Poco and I’m very excited to not only help your kids move to the next level in diving or even start their diving journey, but also have fun and grow in character on the way. Coming off a super successful year, finishing first overall in the boys team competition and second overall in the whole team competition at City Dive Finals, I’m extremely excited to get back on the boards and have another great season!  

Mercy Rhodenizer is 18 years old and is entering her freshman year of college.  Mercy has grown up at the pool and has been swimming year round since she was 4 years old. She started diving competitively when she was 7 years old. She has been coaching prep team for 4 years and has enjoyed helping the younger children in dive during her free time as well.  This will be her first year as assistant dive coach and she’s excited to help the next generation of divers develop a love for the sport.

Ronda has coached as a 10 and under coach for five years for the YMCA, TRAC, and currently Summit City Aquatics (SCA). She has also been a NICU nurse for 23 years. She loves working with children and helping them master new skills while learning how to be safe in the water.