HEAD COACHING STAFF

BILL RIETZ- SENIOR HEAD COACH

Coach Bill has served as a DARTS coach since 1979. He has served on the Delaware Hayes Pacer coaching staff from 1980-2017. Coach swam 7 years for the Delaware Swim Club after his family moved to Delaware in 1969. He was a 4 year varsity letter winner for the Pacers and served as captain his senior season. A 1980 graduate of the University of Tennessee, Coach is a retired high school teacher from the Delaware City Schools who has continued his passion of sharing swimming with the Stingrays and Pacers. He is married to Kay Rietz - aka "Mrs. Coach".

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (740) 369-6015 home

Phone: (740) 972-4980 cell

KELLY MONTEE - JUNIOR HEAD COACH

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 740-972-5017

STEPHANIE FRISCH - HEAD DIVING COACH & ASST. SR. COACH

Diving Head Coach – Stephanie Frisch

Coach Stephanie (aka Dish) joined the Wesleyan Woods Aquatic Club/DARTS at age 8, when a swimming instructor promised to pass her in all swimming lessons. She competitively swam for DARTS and Delaware Hayes, earning 4 varsity letters and being named captain her senior year. In college she participated in synchronized swimming on the Miami University Marlins club team. Dish coached swimming and diving with DARTS and the Hayes Pacers for 10 years before moving to CT 1996. She returned to OH in May 2013, and hit the pool deck with DARTS and Riptide swimming and diving that spring, and with the Pacers and Barons diving team in the fall. She calls Delaware home where she lives with a feisty French Bulldog, Cami-Lou, and Jake, a grumpy-old-man-Labrador.

Email: [email protected] 

Phone: (203) 924-9852

COACHING STAFF - ROLE AND EXPERIENCE

  Swimming Program: Seniors

 Bill Rietz        Senior Head Coach

1. 46 years coaching with DARTS

 2. 37 years coaching Delaware Hayes High School

 3. 12 years swimming - Somerville (NJ) YMCA, Delaware (OH) Swim Club, Delaware Hayes High School

Stephanie Frisch     Senior Assistant Coach

1. 11 years coaching with DARTS

2. 5 years coaching Delaware Riptide YMCA (DRY)

3. 12 years swimming Wesleyan Woods Aquatic Club (OH), DARTS , Delaware Hayes High School, Miami Marlins Synchronized Swim Club

      Swimming Program: Juniors

Kelly Montee      Junior Head Coach

1.  16 years coaching with DARTS

2.  8 years coaching Delaware Hayes, 3 years with Powell YMCA

3.  13 years swimming DARTS, Worthington Swim Club, Worthington Wave, Olentangy High School, Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame, IN

Katie Gilliland     Junior Assistant Coach

1. 20 years coaching with DARTS

2.  1 year coaching at the Marysville YMCA

3.  12 years swimming DARTS, Olentangy High School

Mia Saksa          Junior Assistant Coach

1. 2 years coaching with DARTS

2. 10 years swimming -DARTS, 3 years Delaware Hayes High School

Diving Program:

Stephanie Frisch   Head Coach

1. 19 years coaching with DARTS

2. 15 years coaching Delaware Hayes High School, 5 years-Buckeye Valley High School, Dempsey Middle School

3. 12 years swimming Wesleyan Woods Aquatic Club (OH), DARTS, Delaware Hayes High School, Miami Marlins Synchronized Swim Club

Erik Richards     Assistant Coach

1.  5 years coaching with DARTS

2.  3 years coaching Ohio Northern University

3.  4 years diving DARTS, Delaware Hayes High School