Our Head Coaches
Coach Ray Willie 2010 Metropolitan Swimming Coach of the year
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.
Coach Peter Cabral:
is a certified ASCA Level III swim coach and has over twenty-eight years of swim coaching experience including head coach of the Sachem Swim Club for sixteen years. He was invited to work with the US Olympic swim coaches at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. He coached numerous national qualifiers and high school state finalists. Many of his swimmers went on to compete in Division I, II, and III collegiate swimming programs. He is the co-founder of the Long Island Premiere Swimming Camp that offers a swim camp experience for hundreds of swimmers. He was the head coach of the Sachem Boy’s Varsity team that won three Suffolk County swimming championships and five League I swimming titles. He was voted the Suffolk County High School Swim Coach of the year in1986. Peter graduated from Springfield College with a B.S. degree in Physical Education and a M.S. degree from Long Island University in School Counseling. Peter’s experience as a school counselor and coach has enabled him to guide hundreds of student athletes and their families through the college recruiting process including the NCAA eligibility.
Kathleen Dugan:
Katie Dugan was a member of the Sachem Swim Club for 14 years. While a member of the team Katie qualified for JOs, Senior Mets and Zones on a yearly basis. Katie was also a member of the Sachem Varsity Swim team for 5 years, where she was an All-County/All-League swimmer. Katie attended East Carolina University, where she was a member of their division I swim team for all four years. She graduated from ECU with a BA in Communications and a minor in Sports Studies. Now Coach Katie has returned to the Sachem Swim Club, where he swimming career began over 20 years ago. She has been back coaching with us for over 4 years and is in charge of the Junior group. In 2010 Katie graduated from Dowling with her Masters in Childhood and Special Education. This past season Katie was the Head Swim coach of the Sachem East Varsity Swimming & Diving team. She is looking forward to a long and successful career with the Sachem Swim Club.