Paul Yetter - paulyetter@hotmail.com
Bob Bowman - bbowman@nbac.net 

Tom Yetter - thomasyetter@hotmail.com

Dan Dougher - finhead6@aol.com

Scott Armstrong - scott.armstrong@jhu.edu
John Cadigan - jcadigan@nbac.net

john.jpg (67590 bytes)Paul Yetter - Baltimore Lead Coach

 paulyetter@hotmail.com

Paul is in his fourth year with North Baltimore, and his third as Harford County's lead coach.  Paul's swimmers have achieved 22 National Age Group records, 30 State records, Olympic Trial Qualifying times, and 6 #1 NAG rankings.  Paul's swimmers have won National, Sectional, and Zone Championships."

Paul gained experience coaching with National Coach of the Year Bob Bowman during the 2001-2002 season.  Prior to his time with North Baltimore, Paul coahed Verona High School in Verona, Wisconsin to a girl's state championship (1998), a boy's state championship (2000), and a 40-0 dual meet record from 1998-2000.  Paul also served as a Senior and Age Group coach for the Badger Aquatics Club in Madison, Wisconsin.  More recently, Paul was the head coach of the Bel Air Aquatic Club, where his team set 65 new team records in the 2000-2001 short course season.

Paul graduated from the University of Wisconsin -- Madison with a degree in English.

Bob Bowman - Lead Coach
Bob Bowman joined the NBAC staff in 1996 and has assisted in many phases of the club's development. Bob previously served as the Head Coach of California’s Napa Valley Swim Team where he coached 1996 Olympian Eric Wunderlich and World University Games Champion Ian Mull. He has also been the Head Coach of the Birmingham Swim League, Senior Assistant Coach of the Las Vegas Gold Swim Team and Head Age Group Coach of the Cincinnati Pepsi Marlins. Coach Bowman is an ASCA Certified Level 5 Coach. He has gained experience as an assistant to four Olympic Coaches.

At NBAC, Bob has coached Michael Phelps to a berth on the US Olympic Team in 2000., where he placed fifth in 200 Butterfly. When Michael broke the World Record in 200 Butterfly in the spring of 2001, Bob was named assistant US National Team Coach for the 2001 FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. Michael broke his own world record at that meet.

In 2002, Phelps broke the world record in the 400 IM and the 400 Medley relay as well as American records in the 100 fly, 200 IM and 800 Free Relay. The NBAC placed 6th at the Summer Nationals and Bowman was named to the staff of the USA Pan Pacific Championship team. In both 2001(Meghan Sackett) and 2002(Jamie Barone), NBAC produced the Rookie of the Meet at the Summer Nationals. NBAC won the 2002 Spring Eastern Zone Sectional Women’s and Combined Championships. Bob has coached swimmers to hundreds of National Age Group rankings including over 60 #1 rankings. His swimmers have set 54 National Age Group Records.

In 2001 Bob was named both USA Swimming Coach of the Year and the American Swimming Coaches Association Coach of the Year. Phelps was named USA Swimming Athlete of the Year and his 200 fly world record was recognized as Performance of the Year. Bowman was named the 2002 USA Swimming Developmental Coach of the Year.

In addition to his coaching duties, Bob also runs Bowman Thoroughbreds LLC, a thoroughbred racehorse racing, breeding and sales company.




Tom Yetter - Age Group Coach
Tom is starting his third year with North Baltimore. His swimmers have achieved 18 Top-16 Rankings, 7 Maryland State Records by 5 different swimmers, and 16 NBAC Team Records.  Tom has had 7 State Champions in 26 events and 19 different swimmers qualify for Maryland Zone Teams.  He has coached swimmers to 57 individual Top-16 Reportable times and has also had 11 different swimmers be a part of 43 Top-16 Reportable relays. Tom has also coached swimmers to Zone meet records and the USA Top 100 times list.

Tom has previously coached at BAY Aquatics, Waugh Chapel Swim Club in the summer and he was the Head Coach of the Severn Park Stingrays for two seasons. While at the Stingrays, Tom led the team to break over 125 Team Records in just two short course seasons.

Tom has attended UMBC and is currently working towards a degree in Exercise Science from Towson University.

Dan Dougher - Age Group Coach
Dan joined the NBAC staff this past summer ('02). He graduated from the College of New Jersey with a double major in Elementary Education and Psychology. While at school, Dan obtained academic and athletic All-American Status. Prior to moving, he taught second grade and coached at Berkeley Aquatic Club, where 2000 Olympian Scott Goldblatt swam. Dan had both swam for and coached for Olympic International Organization chairman Jim Wood.




Scott Armstrong - Assistant Senior Level Coach 
Scott Graduated from Johns Hopkins Univisity in 2003 with a degree in Political Science. He was named Hopkins swim team captain for the 2002-2003 season and is 17 time NCAA All American as well as the 1650 national record holder for Division III.  He lead the team to two consecutive 2nd place finishes at Division III National championships.

Scott holds over 20 YMCA All American honors including 1999 500 freestyle national champion. He swam for Sumerset Hills YMCA in Basking Ridge NJ and still holds over 6 team records.

He worked as Head Coach of the Pleasant Valley swim team for the summers of 1997 and 1998, 14 and 2 record and second place at the league championships both years.

Scott was hired as a part time assistant age group coach at NBAC in the fall of 2002 after a successful summer competing for NBAC at Summer Nationals. Once finished with competitive swimming, he was hired as a full time assistant to Bob Bowman.

Scott was also hired as a part time assistant and lead sprint coach at Johns Hopkins fall
of 2003.


John Cadigan - Assistant Coach, Masters Coach
John began working with Murray Stephens and the Loyola Blakefield swim team in 1980, while in school at Loyola. He assisted Murray with the Loyola team and the NBAC Senior level group until 1984. He graduated from Loyola College with a B.A. in English Literature in 1986. John coached summer league at Roland Run Swim Club for five years from 1983-1987 and was the head coach of the Varsity and Junior Varsity at Archbishop Curley High School from 1986-1990, winning two league championships and one meet championship. In 1990, John returned to NBAC as Senior Assistant Coach and was Loyola’s JV coach for four years. Currently, John coaches the NBAC Masters team while serving as general manager at Meadowbrook. John writes and publishes the NBAC Splash, the team newsletter. John was married in 1989, and he and his wife Connie have five children.