Swimming - Girls - Varsity | Mercersburg Academy

More than a century of excellence in the pool:

32 Olympians who have earned 11 medals, (including five golds) representing the USA and 12 other countries
Hundreds of High School All-Americans
9 National High School/Interscholastic team championships
20 Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving championships
Mercersburg swimmers can train all three seasons during the school year, with the primary competition schedule running through the fall and winter seasons, as the Storm travels to high level USS and high-school events. The winter season culminates at the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships, the largest prep school aquatic event in the nation.
Experience is the key word for the swimming and diving coaching staff. Head coach Glenn Neufeld led Mercersburg to the 2016 Eastern Interscholastic Swimming & Diving Championship on the girls’ side and has also won a YMCA national championship. Diving coach Jennifer Smith ’97 has rejuvenated the Mercersburg diving team, guiding several athletes to collegiate-level competition.
Mercersburg’s tradition of excellence extends to the collegiate level. Over the last several years, alumni have gone on to compete at numerous institutions, including Air Force, Army, Boston University, Bucknell, Emory, Florida State, Lehigh, Miami (Fla.), Middlebury, Navy, NYU, Pittsburgh, Penn, Rice, USC, St. Francis (N.Y.), Texas A&M, and Williams.
Mercersburg’s swimmers and divers train and compete in the Lloyd Aquatic Center, a 40,000 square-foot facility that opened in 2019 and includes the Olympic-size 50-meter, 10-lane Furnary Pool with a diving area, in addition to locker rooms, seating for spectators, and office space. Dry-land training occurs in the McDowell Fitness Center, which features 6,000 square feet of contemporary equipment and programming.

Glenn Neufeld

Assistant Director of College Counseling

Head Swim Coach

Bio

Glenn Neufeld came to Mercersburg from the Upper Main Line YMCA in Berwyn, PA, where he was the director of competitive aquatics and national team coach for 13 years. He also spent one season as assistant swimming coach at the University of Alabama. Glenn’s teams consistently finished in the top five at YMCA Nationals, and his swimmers have won 44 YMCA national titles and a YMCA national championship in 2009. Glenn was the 2011 YMCA National Coach of the Year and spent three years on the YMCA Swimming National Advisory Committee. He lives in Tippetts Hall, where he serves as a dorm parent and adviser. In 2016 (his second year at Mercersburg), the Blue Storm girls won the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming & Diving Championships for the first time since 1987.

Barbara Thorne

School Store Supervisor

Bio

Barb Thorne has had many roles at Mercersburg, including working as an adviser, dorm dean, and assistant swim coach. She was an All-American and captain of the swim team at Dickinson College where she was MVP her senior year. Before coming to Mercersburg, she was a paralegal at Russell and King Law Firm in Asheville, NC, and served for eight years as an officer in the Pennsylvania and North Carolina Army National Guard. Barb and her husband, Tom (a faculty member), are the parents of two Mercersburg graduates: Elissa Thorne Shashai ’06 and Julia Thorne ’07.

Stephen Fowler

Mathematics Faculty

Bio

Steve Fowler joined the Mercersburg faculty in 2018 as a mathematics teacher and assistant swimming coach. He previously taught computer science at Kutztown University and Montclair State University and math in public high schools in Elizabethtown, PA, and Kinnelon, NJ. Steve has coached swimming and diving at the club, high school, and college level. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Elizabethtown College and a master’s degree in mathematics from Montclair State University. Steve’s wife, fellow faculty member Cindy Fowler, is a college counselor at Mercersburg. The Fowlers have two children, and Steve is an adviser affiliated with Fowle Hall.

Coleman Weibley

Assistant Dean of Students

Bio

Coleman Weibley is Mercersburg’s assistant dean of students, an assistant swim coach, and a residential faculty member in Tippetts Hall. Coleman first came to Mercersburg in 2013 and spent four years as Mercersburg’s assistant director of summer and external programs prior to his appointment as director in 2017. A native of Carlisle, PA, Coleman was previously the director of swimming and diving operations at Florida State University and head coach of FSU’s club swimming program, Club Seminole. Prior to working at Florida State, Coleman held a similar position at the University of Tennessee, where he served as the camp director for the teams’ summer camps. Coleman holds a bachelor’s degree in education with a focus on recreation and sports management from Tennessee and a master’s degree in business administration from Shippensburg University. He, his wife Bailey Blake Weibley ’11, and their daughters Parker and Quincy, live in Tippetts Hall on campus.

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