Our Head Coaches
Coach Peter Cabral:
Coach Pete has been the Head Coach for the Sachem Swim Club for the past sixteen years, and was selected to work with the U.S. Olympic swim coaches at the Olympic Training Center in Colorodo Springs. He has coached numerous national qualifiers and high school state finalists. He has won three Suffolk County swimming championships as the head swim coach for Sachem High School Boy’s Varsity Swim Team, was voted the Suffolk County High School Coach of the year in 1986 and he coached the Longmeadow High School Boy’s Varsity Swim Team to a Massachusetts State High School Swimming Championships in 1980.
Coach Ray Willie
Junior Team Coach and TVSC alumni Ray Willie Coach Ray started his swimming career at age 7 right here on Three Village Swim Club. He holds an undergraduate degree from University at Buffalo and a masters degree from Stony Brook University both in applied mathematics. He is currently a High School math teacher at East Islip High School.
Coach Ray was a 14 time All American for the University at Buffalo. He was two time MVP for the University, Freshman of the Year in 1989 and Upper New York State Swimmer of the Year in 1989. In 2004 he was honored by University at Buffalo by being named in the Athlete Hall of Fame.
He began his coaching career in 1992 as assistant coach for Canisius College Men’s and Women’s Division I swimming program. His tenure has included Head Junior Coach Cheektowaga Stingrays, Head Junior Coach Three Village Swim Club, and Head Coach Hauppauge Swim Club.
Coach Ray has coached several Top 16, Zone, Sectional and National qualifiers. He has been published in splash magazine twice for drill techniques on both Breaststroke and competitive dives. He has also worked closely with Coach Bud Termin of TeamTermin sports performance, on interval training using finis tempo trainers and its affect on age group swimming technique. He is currently working with Olympic Swimmers and Swimchampions.com to help promote age group swimming throughout the country with their fitter and faster tour.
He has been published twice in "Splash Magazine" for drill techniques in breaststroke and competitive dives.