Coaches
Head Coach
Keith
Schertle is the head coach of LBA as an
A.S.C.A. Level 3:4 coach, and has been coaching since 1985. Keith has been
coaching at Loyola High School for the last 15 years and has been the head coach
for 11 years, leading the Dons to 15 straight MIAA titles. In 1996/1997,
2004/2005, and 2007/2008 he led the Dons to a National Catholic Championship at Villanova
University where he subsequently was named Coach of the Meet. As well as being a
coach, Keith is also the Aquatics Director and Head Water Polo Coach of Loyola.
Keith has coached both National and All-American Swimmers from college and high
school. As for responsibilities, Keith is in charge of the whole LBA program and
coaches mostly the high school swimmers.
Assistant Coaches
is in his 2nd year with LBA and his 32st year as Maryland’s most successful age group swim coach. He comes to us with twenty eight years of club coaching with HCY (6), NBAC (17), RAC (4), and GTAC (1). In addition, Tom has coached at Towson University and UMBC. Finally, his early years were spent with eight years of summer league coaching.
Tom has accomplished more than any other age group coach in Maryland. His efforts have produced swimmers with over 450 National Top 16 Rankings which include 37 National Age Group Records, 76 Top #1 ranked National US Age Group Times, and over 300 Maryland State Records. His swimmers have made Maryland Zone Cuts, Eastern Sectionals, Junior Nationals, Senior Nationals and Olympic Trials. Three of Tom’s Age Group Swimmers continued and competed in the Olympics; two won gold medals.
Since 1986, Tom has been an elected member of the Maryland Swimming Board of Directors. He is currently serving as the Hall Of Fame Director, the Coaches Representative, and a Review Board member.
To his credit and hard work, it’s not a surprise to find that Tom (among his accolades) served on the Maryland Zone Team Staff from 1986-2003 as Coach, Head Coach & Team Manager. He has spoken at three American Swimming Coaches Association Clinics and the 1996 World Swimming Coaches Association Clinic. He was Maryland Swimming’s Age Group Coach of the Year in 1998, 2000 & 2002. [The award was renamed the “Tom Himes” Age Group Coach of the Year in 2003.] The American Swim Coaches Association has bestowed upon him a Lifetime Membership and has given him a Level 5 certification. Finally, for all of the above accomplishments in his ‘young’ coaching career, Tom was inducted into the Maryland Swimming Hall of Fame in April of 2005.
Tom has a BS Degree in Business Administration and Management and works for a Department of Defense Agency. Tom is married to Betty and has two children, Matthew, 18, and Rebecca, 14.
Tim Pierce
is a graduate of Loyola Blakefield, Class of 1960, and Loyola College, Class of
1964. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English, an M Ed in Guidance and
Counseling with Advanced Degrees in English, Guidance, and Administration.
Following three years of teaching at City College, Tim was persuaded to return to his alma mater, Loyola Blakefield in 1967. He remained there full-time until he retired in 2005. Over a 38-year span, Tim taught English, was a swimming coach, a guidance counselor, the Head of Admissions, the Head of the Middle School for 18 years, and the Director of Technology. For these accomplishments, Tim received Loyola’s highest award, the Blake medal in 1991.
Since his formative collegiate swimming days, Tim has coached his swimming teams to championships. This includes summer leagues, YMCA, high school, and Maryland swimming. When invited to teach and coach at Loyola Blakefield in 1967, he took a last place team to a championship team in just four years. Under Tim’s direction and coaching, Loyola Blakefield produced league records, champions, All-American swimmers, and All-American divers. For these accomplishments, Tim was inducted into the Loyola Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003.
In 1967, Tim originated, formulated, and incorporated the North Baltimore Aquatic Club as Head Coach. Within a year, he took NBAC’s Bob Gavin (then a Blakefield neo-senior) to Olympic Trials in California. Over the ensuing years, while continuing as Head Coach, he organized NBAC, its club, parents and coaching staff into a Championship program.
Simultaneously, Tim reorganized and dramatically shaped the future of Maryland and the beginning of Eastern Zone Swimming (then Region II). In 1972, as elected General Chairman of Maryland Swimming (the SAA-AAU), Tim in conjunction with his committee chairs set in place the majority of the administrative structures still in place today. Tim was also the first Region II Coordinator (the pre-cursor of the Eastern Zone). Tim and the late John Considine hosted the first of three Region II Meets (pre Eastern Zone Sectional) at Towson University. For Tim’s coaching accomplishments in Maryland Swimming and his administrative contributions to the sport, Tim was inducted into the Maryland Swimming Hall of Fame in 1986.
In 2006, the American Swim Coaches Association awarded Tim Level V Certification, Emeritus, for Age Group and High School Swimming. This is the highest recognition for service, education, and achievement in the coaching of swimming.
Tim retired from coaching in 1984 to continue his responsibilities and duties as Head of Loyola Blakefield’s Middle School (established in 1979). In 2003, he returned to the swim coaching ranks to mentor our Middle School Dons. Since his retirement from Loyola Blakefield in 2005, he has volunteered to assist at LBA wherever and whenever we need him.
Brad
Schertle is in his fourth year at LBA. Brad is a 2001 graduate of Loyola Blakefield, 2005 graduate of
University of Maryland, and four-year letter winner. Brad assisted the
University of Maryland coaching staff during the spring of his Senior year and
coached at the Towson Golf and Country Club. As a swimmer Brad competed in 13
Eastern Zone Meets, one Sectional Championship, one Junior Championship, one
National Championship, and 4 ACC Championships. He will assist Keith with the Senior Group.
Bridgette
Schertle is in her seventh season coaching with LBA, as a 2003
graduate of Notre Dame Prep, 2007 graduate of Loyola College in Maryland, and the captain of her
college swim team during her senior year. She is in her second year of
graduate school to earn a Master's in Speech-Language Pathology. She grew up through
the LBA program and has vast knowledge of stroke technique and age group
swimming; she has total responsibility for the SMURF Group and for the Spring
Stroke Clinic.
Katie Jenkins is starting her first year with LBA. Katie is an ASCA level 4 (YMCA); 3 (USAS Age Group) coach. She comes to the team with fifteen years’ coaching experience, the majority of which was spent as the head coach at Catonsville YMCA. During her tenure there, she coached numerous YMCA All-Americans, YMCA and USAS Top 16 swimmers, US Open qualifiers and a National Catholic League champion. She currently also coaches the LOCO Club Swim Team of Loyola College, and has coached at Gilman School, Johns Hopkins University and at CMSL summer league teams.
Katie has a BA degree in Writing from Johns Hopkins University, where she swam for four years and became an NCAA Division III All-American. She also has experience as an elementary school teacher for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and for Baltimore City. Katie is married to husband Doug and lives in Baltimore.