Nicol started coaching in 1997 and went full-time in 2012. She served as the Aquatics Director in Castroville and Head Coach at Palo Alto (SA) before going to grad school and coaching part time in San Antonio and surrounding areas. Her academic background is in philosophy--ethics with a focus on Youth Sports. She swam competitively in high school and college, but her greatest achievement to date is getting a summer league team started in her home town of Castroville, Texas. Having spent her teens, twenties, and thirties on teams across the US, and always carrying a bit of curiosity, it became clear that swimming is a sport that is life-saving, allows for multi-generational participation, is accessible for a lifetime, and whose participants just do better generally in life. That advocacy for a hometown summer league team over a decade ago led to community support for a high school swim team, year-round club team, and an adult swim program.
Her primary goals as the new president for the Maverick League are to continue the tradition of making the sport of swimming accessible to as many as possible while building safety and a sense of community in neighborhoods. She volunteers on her local Parks and Recreation Board, loves books and music, is an animal lover, and struggles to keep the plants in her garden alive.
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Head Officials Biographies
Bruce Anderson - Swimming Resume
Began age group swimming at age 8 in South Texas (Austin). Set state age group record at age 14. Was a member of championship state high school relay team. Captained the University of Texas at Austin team for two years while graduating with highest honors.
Began coaching at age 16 as with age group team. Have coached over multiple years at both head coach and assistant level.
Began officiating over 50 years ago after graduating from college. Have officiated at summer league, age group, high school and college levels. Established a certification program for West Texas LSC in late 1970s. Main emphasis has been in training and certification of summer league officials starting in 1987. Was league officer and President of Northwest Aquatic League in Houston area when league had 70+ teams and 15,000+ swimmers. Participated in training 2000+ people to be officials.
Moved to Boerne area in 2007 and began supporting MSSL. With Beth, have trained over 1000 people to be officials with MSSL.
Beth Anderson - MSSL Swim Resume
Began swimming at 8 in South Texas with Brownsville Swim Club. We moved to Corpus Christi whereI started swimming with North Shore Swim Team. At 17 I was also a coach for the North Shore Swim Team. Qualified for State several times as I got into high school.Got a swimming scholarship for college.
In Houston for a few years,I was a head coach for Wilde-West andthen Heatherwood, a summer league swim team of about 300 swimmers in the Northwest Aquatic League (NWAL).
Started training as an USA Swim official when I was 21. Became an official trainer for NWAL officials, then became 1st Vice President for NWAL – that job was getting 1000 officials trained/certified as swim officials annually. There were 100 teams in NWAL and 17,000 swimmers then. I started working as a USA Swim assistant coach while still working with NWAL.
Moved to San Antonio and became involved with MSSL and moved into the Head Trainer position for MSSL in 2008.Currently do MSSL training and help with teams that are seriously short-handed or have new officials. Started working as a USA swim official completing Stroke & Turn and Starter, working up toward a USA Referee. Finally retired from that and have been working as a Head Official Trainer for MSSL Officials.
Chris Lysinger – Swimming and Official Biography
I learned to swim at 8 years old in Brownsville, Texas and swam summer league until moving to Corpus Christi in 1970 when I joined North Shore swim team. In 1971 I moved to Portland, Texas and continued with North Shore swim team where I was ranked 9th in the nation in the 50-meter free. I also joined Gregory Portland High School swim team. While in high school I earned 3 All Americans. I attended Midland College in 1975 after high school graduation. While in College I won 5 national records and 7 All Americans.
While in Midland in 2000, I began to officiate swim meets when my children began swimming. Not long after starting officiating I quickly advanced to national certification. While officiating US Swimming I also officiated UIL, both High School and Jr. High, as well as NCAA and US Masters meets.
After moving to Boerne in 2018 I resumed officiating local meets and meets in the San Antonio area. I also supported summer league swimming in 2021. Over the years I have trained many officials and enjoy the experience. I look forward to supporting the MSSL teams in 2024.