Coach Black comes to the Nadadores from the state of Michigan where he started coaching 30 years ago in a private club summer swim league (MICSA) for the Detroit Yacht Club. The last seven summers Coach Black has been the proud coach of the Red Run Golf Club who also compete in the same summer league.

Over the past two decades Coach Black has primarily been a high school swim coach for three different programs; University of Detroit Jesuit and both Brighton High school programs (girls and boys). During Coach Black’s 38 high school seasons he has coached his athletes to over 500 state qualifying times, 89 NISCA All American honors, 23 individual state titles or runner up finishes, 15 state meet top 10 finishes, 14 Livingston County Swimmers of the Year, 3 MHSAA Swimmers of the year, and 1 MHSAA Diver of the year. He has also sent scholarship athletes to all NCAA divisions to compete and further their swimming careers at the college level.

Coach Black has four times been named Zone Coach of the Year along with being nominated for overall state coach of the year six times, winning the title in 2018. That same year (2018-19) he was nominated from the state of Michigan as the girl’s swim coach of the year for the National Federation of High School Sports (NFHS) and won the Central state’s section honor.

Coach Black is a proud Alum of Grand Valley State University earning two Bachelor degrees (History and Public Relations) in 1999 and a Master Degree in 2013 from Central Michigan University in Sport Administration. He also has been married to his beautiful wife Amanda Black for the past 15 years.

Coach Black has coached novice level swimmers to an Olympic Trial Qualifier and everything in between. He believes in creating a safe environment so his swimmers may work hard, have success, and sometimes stumble but all while being able to grow into better humans.