OUR STRUCTURE: Our team was formed in the fall of 2000. We operate as two cooperative entities. The parent group provides support to the team in a variety of ways and raises money through fundraising projects. JoAnne Bennett is the Director, and operates the team as a business.

OUR INSTRUCTORS AND COACHES:

• Sarena Becker is our Head Coach.  She swam synchro for 8 years in Boulder, competing at the national level, and has been on our staff since fall of 2005.  She did all the ground work to start the Synchro Team at CSU in the fall of 2008 and continues to be its primary leader.  She is finishing up at CSU this year doing her student teaching for her Art Education degree. 
• Kelly Stamm comes to us for her third year from Olympia, Washington where she swam synchro and speed for many years, competing nationally in synchro.  She is a junior at CSU studying engineering education, plays for the club water polo team, and works with Sarena and Blair to run the CSU Synchro Team. 
• Celia Peitsch joined our staff last season.  She is junior at CSU from Salt Lake City, majoring in Computer Engineering. Celia brings extensive modern dance training and  is on the CSU Synchro Team.  
• Kayla McAuliffe returns this year after taking a year off during her first year at CSU.  Kayla has been involved in synchro in the area since she was twelve as a swimmer and coach for both Orcas and the summer team.  We are happy to have her back!
• Rachel Minor joins us this year as the Novice coach for our little girls.  She was an Orca herslef for four years and always loved to help the other younger swimmers.  She is a junior in high school in Loveland.
• JoAnne Bennett was a speed and synchro swimmer in her youth in the Cleveland area and has been coaching synchro in the Northern Colorado area since 1998.

OUR AFFILIATIONS: We are a member club of Rocky Mountain Synchronized Swimming Association (RMSS), Region D, North Zone, United States Synchronized Swimming (USSS). There are presently 5 clubs in RMSS located along the Front Range, 7 in our region, and 30+ in our zone.