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We are here to support your needs. If your questions are related to workouts, meets, swim events, goal setting, and other swimming related needs, please contact one of the coaches. For all questions related to administrative, such as dues, club practices, club organization, or policy issues, please contact one of the board members.

Meet our Coaching Staff!
Our Coaching Staff welcomes you to the Waunakee Rural Aquatic Team! WRAT’s diverse coaching staff offers swimmers a terrific training experience - for swimmers of all ages and abilities! Every coach on our staff grew up loving swimming and are accomplished club (and even collegiate and national) swimmers themselves - so they can now can share their love of the sport with your swimmer. Our staff has years of coaching and personal swim instruction experience in stroke technique and swim training.

All WRAT coaches are USA-Swimming certified coaches. They are background checked through USA-Swimming’s Coaches Background Check system, and all have current certifications in American Red Cross First Aid, CPR, Lifeguarding, and Coaches Safety Training. Our coaches are members of the American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA), and regularly attend ASCA training seminars.

Below are biographies of our staff, as well as some of their accomplishments. Check out why they are the pride of our team!

Coaching Staff

Coach Wagner da Silva

Head Coach

WRAT welcomes Head Coach Wagner da Silva to our team,starting this Fall 2009 session! Wagner has extensive personal swimming and coaching experience, and is a highly esteemed coach in this sport within Wisconsin. Coach Wagner has 24 years of coaching experience and more than 15 years of personal swimming experience.

Wagner’s coaching experience spans club and high school swimming in the area. Prior to joining WRAT, Wagner was the Head Coach of the Monona pool site of Badger Aquatic Club. Previous to coaching for BAC, he was the Head Coach for the Monona-Grove Madison (MGM) swim team. He has coached at the WIAA level as well, coaching for both McFarland H.S. and Monona Grove H.S. men’s and women’s teams. His experience spans from teaching new swimmers basic swimming skills to coaching successful National qualifiers.

Wagner is very respected within the Wisconsin swimming community. Coach Wagner was voted on by his fellow coaches in the state as the Age Group Coach of the Year for 2008. Wagner has been selected by Wisconsin Swimming for several years to be a part of the coaching team for Team Wisconsin at the Central Zones. Most recently, this included being the Head Coach of Team Wisconsin in the summer of 2009, leading a coaching team of 9 other coaches from around the state. (Team Wisconsin is a team comprised of zone-qualifying swimmers – those achieving cuts beyond the State Championship level – from club teams all overthe state.) He is also the Coaches Representative on the Board of Directors for Wisconsin Swimming, the governing body for swimming in this state.

Coach Wagner (pronounced Vag-ner) is a native of Brazil where he swam competitively as a youth. He also served as a head coachfor a Brazilian team before moving to the United States.

Brtittany Duwell

Assistant Coach

Brittany Duwell comes to Waunakee with many years of swimming experience. As a swimmer she swam locally for the Deforest High School, Deforest Aquatic Club and M*G*M Aquatics. She later swam at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh where she majored in human services. Brittany is currently working on here Master's Degree in counseling. While at Oshkosh she coached at the Oshkosh YMCA (OSHY) for two years. Upon graduation she became the head coach at the newly organized Lodi High School women's team. After the high school season finished she joined the McFarland Spartan Sharks as an assistant coach. Her parents have served as USA Swimming officials for many years and often can be seen on deck at WRAT's home meets.

Courtney Stacy

Assistant Coach

Courtney comes to WRAT from her hometown of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she began her competitive swimming career at age 8 and continued on in High School. Since then, she has coordinated the swim lesson program and youth swim camps for Tam O'Shanter Country Club in Michigan.

In 2008, Courtney had the opportunity to intern for NBC during the Beijing Olympics, where she was a part of the production team covering the Water Cube and swimming. She loved working there, and has a ton of great stories, so ask her about it sometime!

Her family still resides in Michigan, and her younger sister, Molly, is a student at Penn State. Courtney currently lives in Madison and is double major in Chinese and International Studies at UW.

Cole R Scarbrough

Assistant Coach

My name is Cole Scarbrough and I was born in Anchorage, Alaska.

I grew up in Washington state with my only brother Chad, and parents Tana and Michael. My favorite food probably would have to be steak. I like listening to reggae music and my favorite band is probably iration. I've been swimming since I was 5 and competed for two different clubs, first was Tacoma Swim Club and the second was King aquatic club. King is owned and was coached by Sean Hutchinson, the 2009 US World Championship Team Head Coach and has coached multiple Olympians and world record holders. I swam with King till I came to the University of Wisconsin and began to compete for the school. I just completed my sophomore year in school.