5900 Executive Blvd. N. Bethesda, MD 20852       

240-777-8070

The Kennedy Shriver Aquatic Center will be closed for renovations starting July of 2024. Renovations are scheduled to be complete by Summer 2026.

While the facility is under construction RMSC-KSAC will continue to run a full RMSC program. All 8 training groups, Minis through the National Training Group, will be offered. Groups will be running out of multiple aquatic facilities, listed below.

Please check the 2024-2025 Season Informational Flyer (below) for group descriptions, practice schedules and locations.

Montgomery College-Rockville (MC-ROCK) - 51 Mannakee St. Rockville, 20850, Physical Education Center (PE)

Montgomery College-Germantown (MC-GERM) - 20200 Observation Dr. Germantown, 20876, Physical Education Building (PG)

Bender JCC (JCC) - 6125 Montrose Rd, Rockville, 20852

Wheaton Glenmont Outdoor Pool (WGOP) - 12621 Dalewood Dr, Silver Spring, 20906

Silver Spring Recreation and Aquatic Center (SSRAC) - 1319 Apple Ave, Silver Spring, 20910

RMSC KSAC 2025-2026 Season - Informational Flyer

RMSC is a year-round, United States of America Swimming (USAS) affiliated, age group and senior swim team. The team competes through Potomac Valley Swimming (PVS), which is our local swim committee (LSC) for USAS. RMSC offers a rewarding training and competitive experience to swimmers of all ability and interest levels through a schedule of flexible practice times.

Swimmers new to the program must attend a tryout (skill assessment) for group placement at the pool of their choice. Please view the tryout information listed under the “Joining RMSC” tab for all details and minimum qualifications. Coaches will assign practice groups depending on skill level, due to program constraints, not all swimmers who meet the minimum requirements will be offered a placement. Newcomers, who are offered a group placement, may not begin to practice with their designated group until all registration requirements have been completed including registration payment.

Entry into advanced level groups is available by coaches' invitation only. Those who participated in the program last year may register only for the group with which they practiced last year. No swimmer may change group assignment unless instructed by coach.

Meet Entry Procedures -

Meet announcements will be emailed by coaches with entry procedures and due dates.

Coaches will notify the athletes of which meets your group will be attending. They will then let you know if the coach will sign the swimmers up or if the swimmers should sign themselves up. If the swimmers are asked to sign up on their own, they will have to follow the email entry procedures and deadline. Entry emails must include the swimmers name, age, and the events they would like to swim, including event numbers.

Meet the RMSC-KSAC Lead Coaches

National Training Group - Jamie Grimes

Jamie was promoted to the KSAC lead coach of the National Training Group in the spring of 2025 and was the lead coach of the Advanced Senior group since 2004. Jamie started his swimming career in 1986 with RMSC and was an All American in the distance events at the University of Virginia. He qualified for the Olympic Trials in the 1500m freestyle in 2000 and 2004. Jamie is also the coach of Walter Johnson High School swim team since 2003, where he also teaches science.

Advanced Senior Group - Doug Markoff

Family lore has me taking my first strokes at 3 in a saltwater pool in Puerto Rico while on vacation. I guess I’ve never really looked back since. I grew up in this program and was fortunate to train alongside a few Olympians and World record holders. While that was not quite the trajectory my career would take, I did compete at the collegiate level. I started at Montgomery College where I was a multiple conference champion and JUCO National Qualifier. After MC I saw my dream of competing at the D1 level come to fruition by transferring to East Carolina University where I was part of 2 Conference Championship teams.

I love this sport, and I love coaching. I started in the MCSL at Ashton where I had the good fortune to have 3 Olympic Trial qualifiers and 1 Pan American Games multiple Gold Medal winner as part of that team. I also helped coach the UMD Club Swim Team and occasionally the RMSC Masters. I began coaching with RMSC in 2005. I have coached for RMSC at every level in the program, from Mini’s all the way up to assisting with ASG and NTG as well as leading the NDG’s at the Germantown site. This sport builds on fundamentals from 1 level to the next and having had my feet in all of it has allowed me to gain a broad perspective on the evolution of a swimmer that I feel has been immensely helpful in my own evolution as a coach. Along the way I have coached multiple Zone Champions, Speedo Sectional qualifiers, Futures qualifiers, NCSA Junior National Qualifiers, multiple Junior Olympic Champions, multiple NCSA National Age Group Championship champions, several National Age Group Record Holders, several number 1 nationally ranked Age Group Swimmers, many swimmers ranked in the top 20 nationally and a few who went on to make Olympic Trials.

I have had the privilege to coach 7 US National Teams; 3 Pan American Maccabi Games and 4 World Maccabiah Games in Israel. The Maccabiah is one of the largest international competitions on the Planet. These opportunities have allowed me to coach and interact with 4 legendary US Olympians, World Record holders, multitudes of Olympic Trial Qualifiers, US Open Qualifiers, Grand Prix Qualifiers and Champions, US National Team Members, NCAA Qualifiers and Champions as well as some incredibly brilliant coaches from all around the world. These experiences have allowed me insight into the minds of champions and those who have helped make them. The conversations I have had and the lessons I have learned from all of them has been invaluable and very often humbling.

I have a holistic approach to swimming. What I mean by this is that I’m looking at the whole package not just what happens in the water. What we do is hard. It’s the most physically and mentally demanding of any sport, and no one will ever convince me otherwise. It provides the opportunity to learn a great deal about oneself and test one’s resolve to the very core. It’s that durability, that self-knowledge that I gained from swimming that has helped to sustain me through every difficult time in my life. If I help to build strong, adaptable, ethical young men and women able to handle anything life throws at them I’ll be satisfied. If they happen to become great swimmers along the way, that’s the icing on the cake.

Senior Training Group - Michal Morris

Coach Michal graduated from Salisbury University in 2000 with his B.S. in Elementary Education and was a member of their swim team from 1998-2000 specializing in the 200 IM and 100 Breaststroke. He has been involved with MCSL since 1984, both as a swimmer and a coach. He Swam for RMSC from 1989-1993 as well as Einstein High School from 1992-1996. Coach Michal has been an 11-12 age group coach for Team Tollefson since Fall of 2011. In Winter of 2015 – 2016 was the Head Junior Coach for the USA National Team for the Pan-American Maccabi Games in Santiago, Chile. In his free time Mike likes playing League Softball, listening or watching a Nationals game and all local sport teams.

Senior Group - Brendan Mullenholz

Brendan is the lead coach for the Senior group and an Assistant coach for the Junior group. He has been coaching RMSC since 2017 where he started as an assistant coach for the Minis and Junior 2’s at MLK.  In 2020 Brendan moved to the KSAC site where he is an assistant with the Juniors, Advanced Juniors.  Brendan’s swimming career as a swimmer at the Aspen Hill Swim Club from 1991-2003.  Brendan is an alumni of Good Counsel High School where he was a swim team captain his senior year.  During college he used his swimming skills as an ocean rescue supervisor in North Carolina for the towns of Duck and Southern Shores. He is excited to help swimmers grow and achieve their goals

National Development Group - Dennis Reynolds

Dennis Reynolds grew up club swimming in Virginia and South Florida with the Coast Guard Blue Dolphins (VA) and the Sheeler-Winton Swim Club (Miami FL). He began his coaching career in 1998 with RMSC working with the Juniors and Advanced Juniors groups. In 2000, he began coaching the National Development Group (NDG). From 2004-2018 he stepped away from coaching while his kids were busy with their sports. In 2018, he returned to RMSC working with the Minis, Juniors, and Advanced Seniors groups. In 2019, he returned to coaching the NDG group, while also working with the Advanced Seniors group. In 2024 he assumed the Lead Coach position for the NDG group, where he remains today. Having worked with all groups at the KSAC site, he has coached numerous swimmers to the NSCA Age Group, Zones, Sectional, and NCSA National levels. Dennis also has many years of experience coaching in MCSL with the Wildwood Manor, Regency Estates, and Cedarbrook Swim teams. When not on the pool deck, he enjoys spending time on his boat in the Chesapeake Bay.

Advanced Junior Group - Kent Williams

Kent has been coaching at RMSC-KSAC since 1993. During his first year at KSAC Kent was the lead coach of the Junior Group and an assistant for the Advanced Junior Group. The following year under Kent’s suggestion the Mini Group was created for all our 8 and under swimmers and he became the lead coach of both the newly formed Mini’s and the Advanced Junior Group. In addition to his work at RMSC, Kent spent time coaching in the CCSDA at Lakewood and in the MCSL at Upper County, where both teams saw growth and improvement. While at RMSC Kent has been on the PVS zone team staff, trained at the Olympic Training Center and has been twice honored as ASCA PVS age group coach of the year. During his tenure at RMSC he has been fortunate enough to coach future Olympians, US National and Junior National Team Members and numerous athletes who have continue swimming into college. Though the Advanced junior Group has had more than its fair share of nationally ranked swimmers, Kent and his staff’s real pride lays in building a foundation for growth and future success, both in and out of the pool, at RMSC and beyond.

Junior Group - Kelly Smink

Kelly Smink grew up in Olney and competed with the RMSC from age 6 through 18. She also spent her summers swimming for the MCSL’s Hallowell Hurricanes and swam four years for the Sherwood High School Varsity Swim Team.

Kelly began her coaching career with Hallowell while still in high school. Since then, she has remained active in the sport by teaching swim lessons and coaching for MSTC, Swim Montgomery, and the MCSL’s Olney Mill Otters.

Kelly joined the RMSC coaching staff in 2010. Over the years, she has served as an assistant coach for nearly every training group, gaining experience with swimmers of all ages. She especially enjoys working with 12 and under athletes, helping to give them a strong foundation towards a lifelong love of swimming.

Outside the pool, Kelly is a registered nurse and a proud mom to a second generation RMSC swimmer.

Mini Group - Jenn Williams

Jenn began coaching for RMSC back in 1993 at the MC-Germantown site.  In those early years Jenn graduated from University of Maryland and then from Johns Hopkins with a masters in education.  Her coaching career with RMSC has included the lead coach of the Junior group, assistant coach for the Advanced Junior and the NDG groups and has been the Minis lead coach since 2003.  She has attended numerous coaching clinics including the Age Group Coaches Conference at the Olympic Training Center.  She has over 13 years of experience coaching MCSL at Tilden Woods.  Under Jenn's tudelidge many RMSC and MSCL records have been broken by RMSC-KSAC minis.  When not on the pool deck, Jenn has spent 13 years teaching second grade for Montgomery County Public Schools and currently raising her two children.  Her favorite part of coaching is teaching her swimmers the skills necessary to have a fun, solid and rewarding swimming future!