Jeff Thompson
Head Coach
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Jeff
Thompson
has been involved with Terre Haute swimming since his days as a
swimmer in the late 80’s. Jeff spent his competitive years of
swimming with the Terre Haute Aquatic Club (THAC), then at Terre
Haute South and he finished up his years at the University of
Illinois were he earned 3 varsity letters. Jeff now serves as the
head coach, and he works with the Bronze and the Senior groups.
Jeff is also the Terre Haute South High School men’s and
women’s head coach. Jeff is a very proactive instructor and
stroke technician and brings with him twenty plus years of swimming
and coaching experience. Jeff has coached numerous High School
Sectional Champions, State Qualifiers, State Finalists, as well as
many Age-Group Championship Finalists. He has had several
All-American Consideration swimmers and numerous Academic
All-Americans. In 2001, he was named the Bloomington Sectional
Coach of the Year. Jeff is a Mathematics teacher at Honey Creek
Middle School and lives here in Terre Haute with his wife Melissa,
their two girls, Emily and Molly and their son
Andrew.
John B Newhouse
Head Age Group Coach
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John Newhouse has been a
member of the staff since 1999, and is the Head Age-Group Coach As
Head Age-Group Coach, John is responsible for overseeing the
programs where the future stars of the Terre haute Torpedoes Swim
Club are produced. In addition to his coaching duties, John also
handles all meet entries and is the team representative to Indiana
Swimming on all Technical Issues and Officiating concerns. John has
been a member of the Indiana Swimming Zone team coaching staff, 5
times as an assistant and most recently the Head coach in 2007. He
was also the Head Coach for Team Indiana at the 2005 Quad Meet.
John has also coached numerous State Champion swimmers, Junior
National qualifiers and national Top 16 ranked Age-Group swimmers.
Currently John also serves as the Head Coach for the Terre Haute
North H.S. Girls Team. Before coming to the Torpedoes, John coached
the High School and Age-Group program in Lawrenceburg, IN. As a
swimmer John competed as a distance swimmer for the University of
Indianapolis and began his swimming career in high school at East
Central. John has a BS in
Business Information Systems from the University of
Phoenix.
David Breiding
Coach
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David Breiding has been a member of the staff since 2004 and is
currently going back to school at Indiana State, to get a teaching
license. David works withall practice groups as the main assistant
for the age group program. He is originally from Kent (Seattle),
Washington and has been involved with competitive swimming for 19
years. He currently holds, or is part, of 6 different school
records at Rose-Hulman, with a crowning achievement of qualifying
for the NCAA national championships.
Allison Hess
Coach
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Allison Hess has been a member of the staff since 2007 and is
currently a student at Indiana State, studying elementary and
special education specializing in math education. Alison is
currently working with all of the swimming groups as well as
supervising THT’s swim lessons. Alison is originally from Ft.
Wayne and swam competitively there for 14 years. Alison has been
coaching for 5 years and is planning on being involved in the
swimming community for a very long time.
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