Coaching Staff
Coach Lauren Brown has been involved with swimming for over 20 years. She began swimming summer leagues in the Washington, DC area where she grew up, and coached in those leagues for more than five years. She trained with Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club through high school, and ultimately was the two-time captain for the women's swim team at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Spanish in 1999. After college, she continued swimming with the Cambridge Masters at Harvard, and continues to try and stay in shape in the pool. Lauren and her husband have 3 young children that love the pool too! laurenlizzie@yahoo.com | |
Coach Jonathan Munro began competitively swimming at the age of 10 on Cape Cod Swim Club. Jon joined Kingfish, swimming under Coach Craft shortly after discovering his love for the sport. He swam for Silver Lake Regional High School and graduated in 2013. Jonathan will be finishing up his Associates degree this year and continuing on to obtain his Bachelors degree. Jon has recently completed two half marathons and will be running his first full marathon later this year! He has been a huge asset to our coaching staff as Head Coach for our Age Groupers. Jon.munro@hotmail.com |
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Coach Mary Buckley began her swimming journey with the Kingsbury Club Swim Team at the age of 4. Shortly thereafter, she joined Kingfish, where she continued to compete throughout her high school years under the guidance of Coach Craft and Lauren. During her time at Duxbury High School, she held the position of captain of the swim team, leading them to victory in 2 State Championships. Mary made a commitment to swim for Yale University, dedicating all four years to the sport, with an unfortunate year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her time at Yale saw her achieve the title of Ivy League champion and earn Second Team All-Ivy recognition. Even in retirement, she remains passionate about staying connected to the sport, now as a developmental coach. | |
Bernadette Hannigan started swimming at the Y level at the age of 6. She moved to US Swimming in 4th grade and swam at Bernal's Gators and Mass Bay Marlins (where she swam with Coach Craft). She qualified for Junior Nationals in the 200 fly. She was a scholarship athlete at Division I Northeastern University and was an America East Champion in the 100 Fly. She is currently a nurse at Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston (has worked here since she was a nursing student at Northeastern) and she is thrilled to be back in the swimming world with her kids and Kingfish as one of our Developmental Coaches. | |
Coach Margaret Cameron-Hickey swam for Old Colony YMCA until she was 12, she went on to swim for New England Barracudas, and finally ended up swimming at Umass Amherst( top 10 in both 100 and 200 breastroke at New Englands). She was an Assistant Coach at Old Colony YMCA and spent 5 years as a Head Coach for Striar Jewish Community Swim as well. She is currently our Head Rec Coach working with all levels to develop their competitive stroke techniques. Margaret teaches at Duxbury High School. | |
Kyle Browning is very excited to be part of KINGFISH Swimming Medfield. Kyle was formerly the founder and Head Coach of the Adirondack Aquatic Club. AAC enjoyed much success ranging from consistent top 10 finishes at the LSC Championships to multiple Sectional through NCSA/NASA Junior National Qualifiers. Kyle has developed and coached multiple YMCA National/ USS JR National/Grand Prix Series/SR National level swimmers, as well as a 2016 Olympic Trial Qualifier. Kyle has had the chance to work with multiple levels of swimming. In 1993 Kyle started coaching with The Attleboro Bluefish under the late Paul Mangili. In 1998, Kyle took over as the Head Coach of the Hockomock YMCA, where HAY enjoyed success at the New England and National level. In 2001 Kyle started The Adirondack Aquatic Club. AAC experienced immediate success within New England Swimming. Kyle earned New England Swimming Age Group Coach of the year in 2007. 2008-2011 Kyle served as a volunteer assistant coach at Bryant University. Kyle resides in Norfolk MA with his wife Sarah, his 3 year old son Mason and 1 year old son Cole. In his off time he likes to train for triathlons and compete in whatever distance races fall on free weekends. Kyle has competed in several half iron distance races including the 2011 Long Distance Nationals. Before the birth of Mason, Kyle completed his first Iron Distance triathlon…hopes to return to that distance someday. kbrowning@kingfishswimming.com | |
Oliver comes to Kingfish in his 15th year of coaching competitive swimming. Most recently he produced New England Age Group qualifiers and place winners and US Sectional qualifiers at the Adirondack Aquatic Club (2008-2016). During this time, he also assisted in the development of US Sectional place winners, Junior National Qualifiers, and Senior National Qualifiers.Oliver has previously worked with Magnus Aquatic Group and the Whitinsville Blue Dolphins (2005-2008) as a Lead Age Group Coach and Assistant Head Coach. He began his coaching career in 2001 as Head Coach of the Farmington Valley Parks and Recreation swim program. Adding to his experience, Oliver spent two years as Head Coach of the Franklin High School boys’ team (2011-2013).Oliver began his swimming career at Farmington High School (Class of ‘99), and continued at Division I ranked Central Connecticut State University. During this time, he achieved all-conference and all-state recognition and qualified for ECAC’s.In his “other life,” Oliver teaches Mathematics at Milford High School. He also resides in Milford with his wife Sharon and daughter Emma. oliverm@kingfishswimming.com | |
Kim Miller has been in the Boston area since 2008 after previously living in Phoenix, Arizona. Kim grew-up swimming year-round for USS programs in Tucson where she was a High School All-American, competed at the national level, and also swam collegiately at the University of Arizona. Kim previously coached swimming for seventeen years with rec teams in Arizona and Norwood, Massachusetts in addition to nine years with USS programs in Arizona, Scottsdale Aquatic Club and Glendale Arizona Swimming Gauchos. She was a Level 3 ASCA Certified Swim Coach and has worked with athletes who have qualified for Junior Nationals. Kim’s family has been part of the Kingfish Swimming/Adirondack Aquatic Club programs since 2011, her son Fitz is now swimming at Miami University and Flannery is part of the senior group. Kim earned a BA in Education from Arizona State University, and has over 30 years of marketing and event planning experience. Kim is currently the marketing and content director at the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals. ktmiller@kingfishswimming.com | |
Tyler Stringfellow Tyler began his swimming career at the age of five years old under Coach Kyle Browning. Tyler had many successful championship meets under Kyle, the highlight was qualifying for both he 2019 NSCA Winter Championships and the Junior Nationals Open Water Swimming Championships. After high school, Tyler then went on to swim all four years at Bryant University’s Division 1 Swim Program. Tyler graduated in May 2023 from Bryant with a Bachelor of Science in Communications with a Minor in Management. | |
Anne-Marie Estrada currently coaches the Developmental group at the Medfield Kingsbury Club. She has been coaching almost 30 years, starting at the Woonsocket YMCA and has always worked at coaching the developmental group. Of those thirty years, 20 of them have been coaching with Kyle Browning. She is certified by ASCA as a level 3 E&E. In addition to coaching she also works for Centrus Home Care as a nurse case manager. aestrada@kingfishswimming.com | |
Matt is the Head Swimming & Diving coach at Roger Williams University, as well as head coach of Kingfish Rhode Island, a USA Swimming member club.Matt has just completed his second season at Roger Williams University and the Hawks continued to reach new heights under his tutelage. Both the Men's & Women's teams finished in 2nd place at the 2014 NEISDA Swimming & Diving Championships. This was the highest place in school history for the women. 16 swimmers qualified for the ECAC championships, as well as 28 varsity records were broken.In Coach Emmert's first season at the helm, he lead the Hawks to a 2nd & 3rd place finish at New England Championships, 11 ECAC Championship qualifiers, and 2 NCAA DIII Championship provisional qualifiers. The Hawks also broke 33 Varsity records en route to the team's most successful season in history.Prior to his position at RWU, he was an assistant coach at the University of Maryland, Texas Christian University, and University of Rhode Island. He is widely known as one of New England’s top coaches when it comes to individual stroke refinement & efficiency. |