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Coaching Staff

Adam Cremieux - Head Coach

Adam enters his six season as Westmont’s Head Swim Coach. Adam has been coaching swimming for over six years and taught swimming lessons for four years previous to

becoming a coach. In Adam’s first season with Westmont the team finished 2^nd at the

2004-2005 Illinois Senior Championship meet, with the men winning the male side.

Prior to joining WEST in August of 2004, Adam was the Head Coach of Hickory Willow

Swim Association. In his first season at Hickory Willow, the team won the South Suburban Swim Conference Championship and finished 16^th at the 2003-2004 Age Group State Meet with 276.5 points (the team finished 64^th the year before with 17 points).

Adam is a former HWSA swimmer. He attended Amos Alonzo Stagg High School where

we was a three sport athlete. He swam on Stagg's varsity swimming team for four years; three year state qualifier; all State senior year; current school record holder in the 50-yard freestyle.

Adam was a two year NCAA Division I swimmer for the University of Northern Iowa. During his freshmen year the team was the Midwest Classic Champions and became the first sophomore in team history to be voted captain. At Northern Iowa Adam was trained under strength Coach Jim Kramer, voted as one of the best NCAA strength trainers in the

nation who later became the head of the US national weightlifting team at the US Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center. Adam then transferred and swam two years as a NCAA Division I full scholarship swimmer for the University

of Wisconsin - Green Bay. Junior year the team became the Horizon League Conference Champions. Adam held

team records in the 50-yard Freestyle, the 200-yard Freestyle Relay and the 200-yard Medley Relay. In his senior

year, he was honored with the Leadership Award by a vote of his teammates.

Coach Erik - Head Age Group Coach

Coach Erik joined Westmont in the Fall of 2006. He brings an additional level of maturity and experience to the coaching team. Erik has been coaching for more than 20 years, with 14 of them in the Chicagoland Area.

He has had the opportunity to coach all levels of swimmers throughout his coaching career. From novice to Age Group Champions, and from High School State Champions to Nationally ranked TOP 16 swimmers. Coach Erik was the Team manager for Team Illinois for the 2006 & 07 Central Zone Championships and the 2005, 2006, & 2007 Mid-States Team.

While coaching in Florida, Coach Erik started a program from scratch, Weston Waves. This team still exists event though it has changed its name, and is now known as Team Weston Aquatics.

Coach Erik is very proud of the young swimmers and coaches that he has worked with over the years, several of which have gone on to outstanding swimming careers and becoming fellow coaches.

As the Head Age Group Coach, Erik will work with all levels of the program even though his primary focus will be developing the 12 & under swimmers on a daily basis.

Scott Erdman - Assistant Coach

Scott is starting his sixth season as a coach for Westmont (WEST). He coaches the senior/sectional groups with a progressive/energetic philosophy derived from combining the styles of all the coaches for which he swam. Scott has the goal of bringing swimmers to the national level of competition.

Overall, Scott has coached slightly over four years, all of which have been as an assistant under Head Coach Adam Cremieux. Prior to coaching at Westmont, Scott spent a year coaching at the Hickory Willow Swim Association (HWSA).

Scott’s long association with club swimming began at the age of five when he joined HWSA. He competed there for six years before joining RAF, where he swam until joining WEST in 1994. Scott swam with WEST until 2001 on a very talented team full of junior/senior national and Olympic trial qualifiers that was coached by Dave Krotiak.

Scott attended Amos Alonzo Stagg High School where he was a four sport athlete (swimming, cross country, track, water polo). He competed for Stagg’s varsity swim team all four of his years under Bob Ferkaluk, serving as the team captain his senior year. Scott was a three year state qualifier while at Stagg and is the current frosh-soph record holder in the 200 IM. Scott was Stagg’s 1997 valedictorian and was named the “most outstanding” male graduate.

Scott went to college at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) on the south side of Chicago on academic/swimming scholarships. While at IIT, Scott competed all four years under Dennis Matuch. He was a four year NAIA national qualifier, becoming an All-American his last two years by finishing 3^rd in the 200 backstroke. Scott was the team captain his senior year.

Scott is currently working in Naperville at Packer Engineering, where he has been for the past four and a half years. He is a forensic engineer, applying the knowledge he attained in receiving his bachelor’s degree in both mechanical engineering and materials science engineering/metallurgy at IIT.

Jason Holbrook - Assistant Coach

Jason is in his third season here at Westmont Swim Club as a coach, after swimming for the team since he was 7 years old and taking a few years off for college. He is a graduate of St. Ignatius Prep in Chicago , where he swam and played water polo and a 2001 graduate of University of Dayton, majoring in Marketing.

He coached for the Clarendon Hills Sealions for five years in the summer and now works full-time for Adidas, besides running his own clothing line. He lives in Chicago - and yes, he has a sewing machine at his house!

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Assistant Coach - Judy Coady

Judy is an Assistant Coach, working directly with Coach Erik and the 10 & under group. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in Foods in Business. After a ten year career at Wendy’s International and Johnson and Johnson, she “retired” to raise her two daughters, Sarah and Jennifer, who began swimming with Westmont in 1996.

In her twelve years here, she has watched thousands of hours of practice, attended hundreds of meets and cleaned out the “blue room” at the pool too many times to mention. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors and has been so for nine years, serving as President numerous times. In the past she has been a Stroke and Turn Judge and an Administrative Judge for Illinois Swimming.

Besides working at Westmont, she is a Customer Service Representative for Special T Unlimited, a custom screen printing and embroidery company in Hillside. She resides in Hinsdale.