instructors

Pieter dehart Masters Swim Coach
Pieter deHart joined the BC Masters coaching staff in January 2007. deHart is a lifelong swimmer who graduated high school in Seattle, WA before continuing college and graduate school. First a distance swimmer on the swim team at University of Utah, deHart finished the last two years of his Division I swimming career as an IM/Freestyle specialist at the University of Rhode Island. His first masters swimming was in 2000 in Sandwich, MA in Cape Cod while he finished his M.A. in Biology. Beginning in 2002, while he worked through completion of his PhD in Marine Biology at the University of Alaska, deHart was the head coach of and swimmer with the Fairbanks Arctic Swim Team masters program. Among other accolades, deHart currently holds 3 SCY, 6 SCM, and 11 LCM Alaska state Masters records. Coach Pieter is looking forward to another successful season, making the masters experience fun for swimmers of all backgrounds and abilities!

Mindy Williams Masters Swim Coach
Mindy Williams joined the BC Masters coaching staff in September of 2005. Williams, a native of Vermont, is a graduate of Colby College (Waterville, ME), where she swam at the varsity level for four years and was a Division III NCAA Qualifier in the 1650, 500 and 400 IM. Williams currently works full time as the aquatics director and head swim coach at Regis College in Weston, MA. Prior to moving to Boston, she was the assistant coach of both swimming and water polo at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. Over the past several years, she has been involved with coaching competitive swimmers at the age group, collegiate and masters level. Williams has been active in US Masters Swimming for the past four years.

Mike Lane SCUBA Instructor
Mike Lane is a NAUI SCUBA instructor.  Currently, he is a certified EMT and works with the City of Boston.  He grew up in New England and loves being in the water.  Other then diving all along the Atlantic coast, Mike has dove in Australia's' Great Barrier Reef, and in both the US and British Virgin Islands.  He loves underwater photography and took all the pictures displayed on the BC SCUBA webpage.  Mike has taught SCUBA at the Oak Square YMCA for the last 3 years.  He has worked as an EMT for the past 5 years.  He received his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of New Haven.