Rob Jones
Rob comes to our program as the former head coach of XSwim and a former Assistant Senior Coach at CAC Stingrays. In the past 12 years, Rob has coached at every level and worked with all ages in swimming. Rob has an extremely diverse coaching background beyond swimming, having coached and consulted with elite level runners, elite endurance sport athletes and organized team sports athletes. This diversity gives him a rare coaching perspective and has fostered his belief that athletes need to be developed individually and treated as unique in order to discover, foster and enhance the innate abilities that ultimately allow them to perform and succeed at the highest levels.
With a dual degree from the University of Texas in Psychology and Kinesiology, Rob has a thorough understanding of bio-mechanics, ergonomics and sports psychology, that allow him to teach and deliver the most efficient and safest techniques as well as work with injury prone and over-trained athletes to ensure that their bodies are executing bio-mechanically proper movements; in the case of swimming, bio-mechanically efficient strokes.
As a competitive swimmer, Rob achieved All-American honors at the University of Texas, was a four-year letterman, and was a member of the 2000 NCAA National Championship team. Rob competed in the 1996 & 2000 Olympic Trials and was world ranked as a flier.
After retiring from elite level competition in 2003, Rob spent several years as an athlete consultant working with individual athletes and teams to increase performance by improving their training, technique, and psychological understanding of sport performance. Rob specialized in working with injured and over-trained athletes to help restore their physical health and athletic performance.
Currently, along with his coaching duties at Aces, Rob works as a corporate marketing and business strategy consultant coaching business to enhance their operational efficiency and overall business performance.
Rob lives in Denver, with his six-year old Lab/Pointer mix, "Rylee," (affectionately called "Ry-Dog the Wonder Mutt") and enjoys all that the city of Denver and the state of Colorado has to offer. Rob is an avid skier and outdoorsman and enjoys a balanced life between business, coaching, and his social life with his girlfriend Kristine.