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Head Coach Joe Glenn

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Joe grew up in Santa Rosa, in northern California. Because his family lived across from the swim center, Joe\'s parents signed him up for the Santa Rosa Neptunes, where he swam for 12 years. While with the Neptunes, Joe qualified for the Junior Nationals and made the finals in the 200 back. Joe attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Joe was a member of the swim team and a Division III NCAA qualifier and finalist for all of his four years at Denison, and served as team captain his senior year. Joe graduated with a B.A. in economics and a minor in psychology. After toiling for four years as a bond trader in San Francisco, Joe embarked on an extended tour of the world, visiting three continents before moving to Hawaii in August 2004, where ex-Denison swim teammate Ben Douglass recruited him to join the PAQ coaching staff. While at PAQ, he worked with all groups at one time or another, but his main responsibilities were assisting Coach Ben with the senior group and coaching a group during the early age group practice. For two years, Coach Joe was a dedicated and loyal coach to PAQ little kids and seniors. He was an outstanding motivator and a great role model for our swimmers. Joe took a break from coaching club swimming to earn his teaching certificate and has been teaching social studies at Farrington High School since 2006. He is proud to have restarted their dormant swimming program after 10 years of inactivity. He also recently served a brief stint as head coach of Pearl Harbor Aquatics. You\'ll see Joe competing at the open water swims across the island. He enjoys surfing, hiking, traveling, running, cycling and most of all coaching swimming!! In September 2008, Coach Joe returned to PAQ to serve as head coach. He hopes to "carry on the great tradition of the club."

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Coach Yan Chen

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Coach Yan hails from China , where she was on the Chinese National Swim Team from 1994-2002. Yan is a two-time Olympian, having represented China at the Olympics in the 1996 Games in Atlanta and the 2000 Games in Sydney . In the 1996 Olympics, at age 15, she was a member of the 400 medley relay team that won the bronze medal, and a semi-finalist in the 200 back and 400 IM. A year later, she broke the World Record in the 400 IM at the Chinese National Games -- a record she held until the 2000 Olympics. Coach Yan started college in China and transferred to UH Manoa in 2002 as a sophomore. She earned her BS in 3 years, and swam on an Athlete Full Scholarship. During each of her three years at UHM, she was a Student Athletes-Scholar (Overall GPA 3.5), Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Student Athlete-Scholar, Western Athletic Conference Champion and an NCAA Academic All-American. Coach Yan has many years of coaching experience both in China and in Hawaii. She has completed a Master\'s degree at UH and has been working in recreation management. She joined the PAQ staff as a SENIOR swimmer coach in 2008. In 2009, she also began coaching a group of Age Group swimmers.

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Coach Ben Douglass

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Coach Ben Douglass grew up in Marietta, Ohio where he began swimming at age 6 for the Marietta Marlins swim team and later became an All-State competitor for the Marietta High School tiger swim team, specializing in the breaststroke and I.M. events. Following high school, Ben attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio where he obtained a B.A. in Cinema and swam all four years: qualifying for NCAA Div. III nationals four times and achieving All-American status 13 times. Immediately following college graduation in the spring of 2003, Ben relocated to Honolulu to teach swimming for Punahou\'s Summer Sports program which quickly led into also coaching a group of young Punahou Aquatics swimmers mid way through the summer. One year later, Ben took over as the head coach of PAQ where he enjoyed witnessing the successes of hundreds of PAQ swimmers over the next four years until the fall of 2008 when he passed the job off to friend and former teammate, Coach Joe Glenn. During this time, Ben also worked for the DOE as a teaching assistant for kindergarten students at Linapuni Elementary School in Kalihi. Since the fall of 2007, Ben has worked in the Video Production Department at Punahou School where he is now a full-time video editor. During the yearlong hiatus from club swimming, Ben and his wife welcomed the birth of their daughter, Mayumi, in December of 2008. Having been away for a year, Coach Ben is recharged and eager to be back on the pool deck as an AGE GROUP swimmer coach starting September 2009. In addition to caring for his daughter and swimming, Coach Ben has a passion for surfing, photography, folk music, and Beatles Rock Band.

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Coach Shannon Tyau

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Coach Shannon grew up here in Hawaii and swam on PAQ for 11 years, beginning in 1995. Shannon is a Punahou School graduate, class of \'06 and briefly attended an art school in Purchase, New York before returning to Hawaii. Shannon has recently been admitted into UH Manoa\'s College of Education and is pursuing a degree in Elementary Education for the next two years. As part of the Elementary Education program, Shannon will be placed in three different elementary schools over her first three semesters as a teacher candidate. In her final semester, she will begin her student teaching. Since 2006, Shannon has been teaching swimming for Punahou\'s Summer Sports program. In 2007, Coach Ben offered her a job coaching the PAQ\'s Blue group. Since then, Shannon has coached both Blue and Silver swimmers and in 2009, began teaching the Punahou Aquatics Swim School. Prior to the evening PASS practice, Shannon enjoys getting back in the water with the Senior group after 4 years without competitive swimming. When Coach Shannon is not at school, doing homework, or at the pool, she enjoys surfing, watching movies, and playing Wii Sports!

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Coach John Hudson

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Coach John started swimming competitively at age 5 with the Jersey Wahoos Swim Club in New Jersey. Moving with his family, John continued his age group swimming in Texas and also in Georgia. After graduating high school in Atlanta, Georgia, he attended college at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where he swam all four years. John served as team captain in his final season and swam at the BIG EAST conference championships in his sophomore, junior, and senior seasons. After graduating from Notre Dame in 2003, he moved to Tokyo, Japan where he worked as an English as a Second Language teacher for 5 years. While in Japan, he continued to train and competed in several 5km and 10km open water swims. John moved to Hawaii in 2008 to pursue a master\'s degree for Teaching English as Second Language at Hawaii Pacific University. In 2009 he accepted a full time teaching job and transitioned from an age group coach to teaching the Punahou Aquatics Swim School. In addition to his love for swimming, John also loves to surf.

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Seasonal Coach Bill Bauer

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Coach Bill has been the Head Coach of the Marietta Ohio Marlins, now associated with the Cincinnati Ohio Marlins, for over 25 years. He is a former classroom teacher, principal and current Professor in the Education program at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. He holds a BS in Special Education and MS in Special Education Administration (Ohio University) and an MS degree in Counseling and a PhD in Rehabilitation Counseling (The Ohio State University). His coaching accomplishments include ASCA level 4 recognition having produced several YMCA Zones swimmers, National qualifiers, and a National Champion. In 1988, he coached the USA team of age groupers who traveled to Holland and swam against Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, and Spain. Many of his swimmers have gone on to swim in various collegiate institutions including but not limited to: Purdue University, Ohio University, Denison University, Air Force Academy, University of Dayton, Ohio Wesleyan, Wooster, Ohio Northern, Mt. Union, Miami of Ohio, and Eastern Michigan. Several swimmers were ranked National Top 16 Y and USS swimmers. He claims 4 YMCA Great Lakes Zone Paul Atkinson Swimmers of the Year including Ben Douglass (Denison University Swim team captain and coach at PAQ). Coach Bill also been the Head Coach of Marietta High School Swim Team. He has volunteered as an Assistant Coach at both Ohio University (under Scott Hammond, Head Coach) and The Ohio State University (Bill Wadley, Head Coach). Since 2006, Coach Bill has traveled to Honolulu to be a seasonal assistant coach at PAQ for summer and winter breaks and teach at the Punahou School Summer Swim School.

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