David Tourigny - Head Coach
email: coachdavid@stormaquatics.net
phone: (206) 719-3695
ASCA Level 2
13 Years Experience
David began competitive swimming with the Lake Stevens Swim Club and Cascade Swim Club. David attended O'Dea High School, where he became the first O'Dea freshman to go to State in swimming. He scored points at State all four years, and became the co-captain for two years. During high school, David got his first coaching experience as a volunteer assistant coach of a summer league team, the Greenlake Gators.
David went to college in Bellingham at Western Washington University. He graduated with a BA in General Studies with minors in Psychology, Sociology and Economics. While at Western, he swam for and coached the Western Washington University Swim Club and competed on Western's water polo team. During the summer, David coached the Sudden Valley Sharks. After college, he continued his coaching career with the Lynnwood Sharks, a summer league team, and in 2004 David started coaching for WAVE Aquatics.
In June of 2007 David started coaching for the Greenlake Aquaducks (GLAD), where he is currently the head coach of a competitive master’s team that practices Monday through Friday from 5 to 6 in the morning. In September of 2007, David became the head coach of Storm Aquatics. Since he has been with Storm, David has coached swimmers to Age Group Sectionals, Zones, and Senior Sectionals.
Josh Whall - Assistant Coach
Assistant
Coach: Josh Whall
ASCA Level 2
Josh
began his competitive swimming in 1991
with the Lake Stevens Swim Club, coached by Jeff Tinius. While at the
Lake Stevens Swim Club, he learned to swim, train hard, swim long
distance and to set and accomplish goals. During high school, he swam
for the Everett Park Sharks with Chris Erickson as his coach. While with
Everett, Josh learned to fine tune his strokes, swim sprints, compete
and evaluate his strokes. Josh attended Lake Stevens High School, where
he focused on breaststroke and long distance freestyle events until he
graduated in 1999. While swimming for Lake Stevens, Josh became a
three-time letterman and part of a three-year undefeated streak in dual
meets. They were also team district champs three years in a row! During
high school, in 1997, Josh got his first coaching experience as a
volunteer assistant coach for the Lake Stevens Middle school teams.
Josh attended Central Washington University, earning a BS in Information
Technology with minors in Human Resources, Personal Computer
Applications and Coaching. As a Wildcat, he swam and was a three-year
letterman for the Central Washington University swim team from
1999-2002. Due to injury, he stepped back from swimming for a couple
years and, finally, swam for Central Washington Swim Club and Ellensburg
Area Swim Club from 2004-2006. During his time at Central Washington
University, Josh also competed on the water polo team from 2004-2006.
During the summers, Josh would coach the Everett Park Sharks and in the
summer of 2000, he swam for Snohomish Valley Swim Club (SVSC).
After college, Josh coached the Mountlake Terrace Marlins from 2006 to
2007. Josh is currently working during the days for Snohomish County as
a Network Support Specialist and is an ASCA Level 2 swim coach. In his
spare time he enjoys swimming, cooking, traveling, fishing; playing:
football, baseball, softball, golf, ultimate frisbee, water polo, and
tennis; as well as watching football, baseball and movies with his
fiancé.
Brittany Tourigny -
Summer League Coach
Summer League Coach: Brittany Tourigny
ASCA Level 1
Brittany began competitive swimming with the South Snohomish County
Dolphins (SSCD). Brittany attended Meadowdale High School. She went to
State all four years and placed in her final year. Brittany started
college at the University of Puget Sound swimming her freshman year.
She graduated from Seattle University.
Brittany now swims for Storm Aquatics and has bettered her times from
high school and college. Brittany
has obtained three Storm Records in the 200 Breast, 200 Fly, and 400 IM.
She has also competed at Senior
Sectionals twice with Storm. In
2010 she made finals in the 200 Breast at Senior Sectionals.
Brittany’s coaching experience began by coaching summer league with the
Lynnwood Sharks. She has since
coached as a backup coach for Storm Aquatics.
Brittany’s main job is working as a CPA.
In her spare time (when she isn’t working or swimming) Brittany enjoys
spending time with her husband, Coach David, going to and watching
sports events especially baseball, football and swimming.
Josh Fountain -
Summer League Coach
Summer League Coach: Josh Fountain
Josh enjoyed swimming competitively for thirteen years with the Lake Stevens Swim Club, West Coast Aquatics, and Storm Aquatics. During that time he qualified for Zones and still has three records for Storm Aquatics: 200IM, 400IM, and the 1650 Free. He swam for the Lake Stevens High School Boys Swim Team and went to State all four years.Josh went to the University of Washington, majoring in history and comparative religion. He now works as a substitute teacher in the Lake Stevens School District. In the Fall he will go to Northwest University where he will study to get his Masters in teaching.
Currently Josh competes in triathlons. He has raced in over fifty triathlons, including four half ironman’s, six national championships, and one world championship. According to USA Triathlon, Josh is a two time All-American and is currently ranked fifty second in the nation for his age group.
Josh started coaching while he was President of the Husky Triathlon Club at the University of Washington. There he worked primarily on swimming technique. Now he is an indoor cycling coach for 24hour Fitness and volunteered as the distance coach for the Lake Stevens High School track team.
Tom Hale -
Summer League Coach
Summer League Coach: Tom Hale
Tom began competitive swimming with the Lake Stevens Swim Club where he
swam for two years, then made the move to Storm.
Tom is currently attending Lake Stevens High School and is enrolled in
the running start program at Everett Community College.
He has swum his entire high school career and has gone to state the last
two years in the 200 Medley Relay, 200 Free Relay, and 400 Free Relay.
The team took 13th at state this last year with only four swimmers.
