Meet the Saline Stingrays Coaches
Nick Munsell: Head Swim Coach
I started swimming when I was 8 years old for the Milan swim team. I started swimming for SST when I moved to Saline in 7th grade. I swam for the Saline High School men’s team and was varsity all four years. As a Junior and Senior I was the presenter of the "Dough Boy" Award (awarded to the MVP at the end of each high school meet). As a Senior I was a captain for the team. I began coaching after high school when I helped coached the men’s high school team. After that I started coaching at Travis Pointe Country Club. I started coaching for Saline Stingrays in 2004. Swimming has always been a big part of my life and I enjoy passing that on to young swimmers. I have been involved in Saline swimming in one way or another since I was thirteen, which is over twelve years. I am passionate about continuing the traditions of this team and passing that on. Other than coaching I work at the pool lifeguarding, running pool events, and taking care of the pool. When I am not at the pool I enjoy going to movies and hanging out with friends.
Favorite Stroke: Breaststroke
Least Favorite Stroke: Backstroke
Megan Crosbie: Swim Coach
I started swimming when I was 6 with the Saline Swim Team at the Rec Center. I swam for the Saline women's swim team and was Captain as a senior. I started coaching in 2003 for the Saline Stingrays. I also coached 4 seasons for Travis Pointe Country Club. I coach because I love to be around all of our swimmers. I love to push them and watch their hard work pay off. In addition to coaching I am a senior at EMU studying Marketing. I will be graduating after the fall semester. I also work as a head lifeguard at TPCC, nanny, and I am an intern at the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce. If I am not at the pool I am working or doing homework. My hobbies are watching sports, playing poker and attempting to become a runner.
Favorite Stroke: Back and Free
Least Favorite Stroke: Equally dislike fly and breast
Pat Wickering: Swim Coach
I started swimming when I was 8 years old. My first experience swimming was at Chippewa Country Club. I swam in high school at Ypsilanti High School. I was captain of the team my junior and senior year.
I began my coaching career shortly after I graduated from high school. My first coaching job was with the Ypsi Otters swim club. I learned from one of the best young coaches in the state, Kelton Graham. He taught me a lot about the sport of swimming that I had no clue about. I started to coach at Chippewa shortly after I started YOSC. I coached there in the summer for 3 seasons. After that I started to coach high school boys with Mike Holtz in Saline. I have been the assistant swim coach in Saline since 2005. During my first season with Saline, Derek Samuleson asked if I could help out with the Saline Stingrays. I accepted and have been coaching the Stingrays since the Summer of 2006.
I coach to help young athletes excel in the sport of swimming and to promote physical activity. I also coach because I am a physical educator and believe in motivation through physical activity. I have a passion for building an athlete from beginner to advance swimmer. I also coach because I love all sports and coaching is a way to still be involved in that particular sport.
I graduated from EMU with a bachelors degree in Physical Education and am currently working in Ypsilanti public schools as an aquatic para-educator. I am still looking for a physical education teaching job. I also coach high school swimming at Saline and work for the Stingrays.
Some hobbies of mine are playing sports, such as softball, indoor soccer, basketball, and of course swimming. Other hobbies of mine include video games and watching Detroit sports on television.
Favorite Stroke: Freestyle
Least Favorite Stroke: Breaststroke
Kelli Littlejohn: Swim Coach
I have been swimming my entire life, but started swimming competitvely when I was eight years old. My swimming career was launched while taking swim lessons at the Saline Rec Center. I swam for Saline from the time I was eight until I graduated high school in 2006. While in high school I earned my varsity letter all four years, went to High School State Meet my junior and senior year, and served as a captain in my senior year. I started coaching for the Stingrays in the fall of 2005, and I typically coach the developmental groups. I started coaching because I love to teach. I started teaching swim lessons at the Rec Center when I was fourteen years old and developed a passion for helping kids learn how to swim. Working with kids brings me a lot of joy and I would like to continue doing so for the rest of my life. In addition to coaching I am also currently in nursing school and will be attending the University of Michigan in the fall to complete my final two years of school. I also work in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at U of M’s Mott Hospital. When I am not at the pool I am either working at the PICU, going to school, or hanging out at home either reading or watching movies. I look forward to working with each and every swimmer that comes through our pool and hope to help them find the same joy and accomplishement in swimming that I did.
Favorite Stroke: Breaststroke
Least Favorite Stroke: Butterfly
Lindsay Pawlowski: Head Dive Coach
I began coaching in the summer WISC conference in 1997. Since then, I have led boys’ high school teams in Ann Arbor and Peoria, Illinois. My coaching home is Saline, where I have worked with the girls’ high school team, the middle school team, and the summer Stingray team. I grew up in Ann Arbor and dove at Huron High and Bradley University. I am a certified lifeguard, and a 4th grade teacher in Belleville.
Andrew DeVries: Dive Coach
I started swimming when I was seven years old and I picked up diving at age ten. I swam for the Saline Seawolves (now Stingrays), Travis Pointe Country Club, Wolverine Aquatics, Chippewa Aquatic Club, and for both the Saline Middle School and High School teams. My favorite stroke is breaststroke, and my least favorite is butterfly. I started diving at Travis Pointe, and continued at Legacy Diving, Chippewa, Saline Stingrays, SMS, and SHS. I think my favorite dive is back twister (1 flip, 1 ½ twists), and my least favorite would have to be Reverse 1 ½. I am a Movement Science major at the University of Michigan, but I don’t swim or dive for them. I started coaching diving in April of 2007 for the Saline Stingrays, and I also coached the Saline Middle School team. I really love coaching because I am very passionate about diving. Helping kids learn not just how to dive, but how to enjoy diving is a very rewarding experience. This summer, I will be a lifeguard at Georgetown Country Club in addition to coaching. Some of my hobbies outside the pool include playing tennis, reading, hanging out with my friends, and taking naps.
Lindsay Schmitt: Dive Coach
I started diving in high school on the Saline high school women’s swim and dive team. I have been diving for three years. Last year, the high school dive coach asked me if I wanted to assist her in coaching the Saline Stingrays. I was extremely excited. I helped coach with one of the other girls on the high school dive team and loved it, so, of course I knew that I would enjoy this opportunity. Other than coaching, I am still enrolled in high school, but plan to graduate in June. From there I plan to attend Washtenaw Community College for two years and then transfer to Eastern Michigan University to earn my degree in physical therapy. Other than coaching, diving myself, and school, I love to go horseback riding with my two horses, and hang with family or friends.