OMNI Swim Club Coaches

Most of our coaches are "home grown", having swum for OMNI in the past and thus sharing OMNI's unique perspective on swimming and its place in the life of young swimmers. OMNI coaches are dedicated to the following:

Well-Rounded Individuals: We will honor and encourage a broad spectrum of development in our swimmers. We will support participation and excellence in school, music, academic extra-curricular groups and activities, religious endeavors, other athletic pursuits, and family commitments.

Healthy Bodies / Healthy Adults: We will lead by example as we strive to educate our swimmers and their families on adequate nutrition, maintaining an active lifestyle, time management skills, and healthy sleep habits. We will build a social network around healthy living by providing valuable educational opportunities both to our current swimmers and to their high school teammates. We realize that by educating the communities in which our swimmers live we can better promote success.

Injury Prevention: The purpose of swimming is to add to the health of our bodies and minds. With this in mind, we are committed to providing ongoing education, technique training and individual modification, and developmentally-appropriate strength training for the purpose of preventing injury. For those coming to us with injuries due to high training intensities coupled with muscle imbalances and/or stroke technique that compromises joint health, we strive to identify and address the underlying causes of their pain while empowering our swimmers to take appropriate steps to regain their health. We are happy to coordinate our efforts with recommendations provided by certified athletic trainers or physical therapists who may be treating our swimmers.

Lifelong swimmers: Our purpose is to share our passion for swimming and fitness with our swimmers and their families. We are committed to promoting personal dedication and will guide our swimmers to be independently driven as we help them form their personal framework for success. We want our swimmers to feel safe, accepted, and supported as they utilize swimming as a means for focus and growth.

Competitive Drive: Along with personal dedication comes an intrinsic desire to succeed. We will feed this desire with training intensity that is aligned with local high schools and colleges. We will develop swimmers skilled in goal-setting, mindfulness in training and competition, as well as the mental toughness and grit that is needed both in an out of the pool. We will promote sportsmanship and positive attitudes as each swimmer learns their value in building a healthy team atmosphere.

Coach Bios

Lindsey Huilt Harrigan

Co-Head Coach

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Competitive swimming experience and specialty events:

I began competing at the age of 7 for the Northeast YMCA Mariners. When OMNI began in 1997, I became an Otter along with many of my Mariner-friends and had the very special experience of spending the rest of my swimming career swimming for my dad. I continued competing within USA Swimming until I was 24. During this time, I also spent 6 years sporting the blue and silver of a Tartan Titan before becoming a proud Ole at St. Olaf College – Um Ya Ya! I was blessed to have coaches who developed me into a versatile swimmer with the ability to compete in all strokes and events, with specialties in breaststroke and IM.

Special coaching areas of interest:

As the first head coach of this team, my dad dedicated 20 years of his life to developing well-rounded swimmers, both in and out of the pool. He consistently taught skills for time management and encouraged participation in a broad array of activities, regardless of what this meant for frequency of training in the pool. As we moved through life it became apparent that the value of being a competitive swimmer at OMNI went far beyond being a fast swimmer or a smart competitor. We developed lasting friendships and an immediate and ongoing support network, developed leadership skills -- both the awareness and ability to lead by example and the ability to verbally guide others to success, gained the confidence to push ourselves to be leaders within our school in class as well as in extra-curricular activities and organizations, and learned to be efficient and organized with our time. Each of these skills was developed by compassionate and dedicated coaches who provided individualized attention and guidance to each of us.

Between spending 10+ years in the pool as an Otter and coaching alongside my dad since 2001, these values became engrained in me. As I developed my own career as a physical therapist I became firmly committed to injury prevention and safe cross-training practices, focusing myself on ways to increase our training effectiveness as a team without creating overuse injuries and burnout in a society where both have become the norm in youth sports.  It is my goal to guide both my swimmers AND their families in building healthy lifestyles with nutritional guidance and activity recommendations to build a stronger, healthier family network.  

Hobbies/Interests:

My husband and I each coach youth athletes and understand that our life choices become a model for countless children and families each year. We spend our free time training and fundraising with Team Challenge, an endurance training program through the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, in addition to biking, swimming, and strength training. We are committed to teaching our daughters the joy of an active family lifestyle and to raise them in a home with a diverse and nutritious daily menu. We mill our own wheat, bake our own bread, have a pantry full of food we’ve canned and a freezer full of food we’ve made from scratch all to keep our bodies and minds strong with our very busy lifestyle. 

Anika Coleman

Co-Head Coach

Toni Wengronowitz

Assistant Coach

Competitive swimming experience and specialty events: 

I began competing in 7^th grade, age 12, for the Tartan High School Swim team.  I started with OMNI after that swim season and continued with competitive swimming until graduating high school in 2006.  I was always a sprint swimmer and enjoyed doing the 200 IM, 50 free, and 100 backstroke.

Special coaching areas of interest:

I have a strong passion for making sure our swimmers are well rounded and making sure each athlete gets to have individual attention and focus throughout each practice and meet.  I also really love to encourage all of our swimmers to be there to cheer on fellow teammates not only in their races, but throughout each practice, especially those really difficult days.

I also have a large interest in strength training and making sure that we are building muscles to not only make us faster and stronger, but to make sure that our bodies are operating to the best ability that they can.

Hobbies/Interests:

Being around family and friends, spending time outside, cooking (especially trying new recipes), and reading a good book.

Jolene Metcalf (she/her)

Assistant Coach

Competitive swimming experience and specialty events:

My dad taught me to swim in the neighborhood pool by having me hold onto his shoulders and “kick-kick-kick”. The rest was experience pretending to be a red-headed mermaid. I did not have any formal swimming lessons until I joined the Tartan High School swim team in 7^th grade. In high school, I joined the OMNI Otters and was able to swim when I did not have other extracurricular activities. When I didn’t swim competitively, I taught swimming lessons. After high school, I trained lifeguards, taught swimming lessons, and even ran an aquatic program for Winona State University. I was lucky enough to coach the OMNI Otters for a few years after college. From 7^th grade to Senior year, I was a butterflyer and continue to enjoy this stroke. My swimming training now is focused on triathlons and keeping up with Coach Lindsey.

Special coaching areas of interest:
I know how hard it is to show up for practice, especially when you feel overwhelmed, tired, sad, sick, or anxious. The first time trying an event at a meet or practice is super scary. I am interested in helping others learn about how and why their brains and bodies protect them from the unknown and how to manage those big feelings while doing hard things.

Hobbies/interests:

All year, you can find me in a campground, on a hiking or backpacking trail, in a canoe/paddleboard, or playing with my pups. I do believe that there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad gear/bad clothing. I spend most nights playing with my dogs, quilling, cooking, reading, playing board games with my husband, or attending local theater. I like trying new foods and experiences and I love to adventure.

Zack Lameyer

Assistant Coach

Competitive swimming experience and specialty events:

I started swimming competitively as a freshman for the North High Polars, and I instantly fell in love with the sport. The following summer, I joined OMNI and continued swimming for North in the winter and OMNI in the summer all through high school. I went on to swim in college for Hamline University in St. Paul (Go Pipers!), including serving as a team captain my senior year, which was an incredible honor. I primarily swam distance freestyle events, the 500, 1000, and 1650 Freestyle, while also mixing in the 200 and 400 IM, and 100 and 200 Breaststroke. My eight years of high school and collegiate swimming had such an incredible impact on my life, and I have many cherished memories and friendships from my time as a Polar, Otter, and Piper.

Special coaching areas of interest:

I want to help you become the best swimmer you can be, but I also want to help you become the best person you can be. This is a philosophy that all of the great coaches I swam for shared, and it really resonated with me when I was a swimmer. There are so many great lessons that I learned from swimming that are also applicable to life in general. These lessons include the value of hard work and dedication, how to persevere through adversity, how to work effectively in a team, and how to be a leader, among many others. I want to carry on that philosophy in my coaching, to help the swimmers I coach learn those kinds of lessons from their own experiences, so they can grow to be well-rounded swimmers and people. I also strive to bring positive energy to the team. The infectious energy that sports generate is something I have always greatly enjoyed, and I want to bring that energy to the pool deck and use it to encourage all of our swimmers to push themselves to improve, and to celebrate their successes.

Hobbies/interests:

Outside of swimming, I'm a big sports fan, and you can often find me watching a Twins, Wild, Vikings, Timberwolves, or Minnesota United game. Other hobbies of mine include reading, watching movies, and playing games. Most of all, I love spending time with my amazing wife, and our awesome families and friends.