GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) — For new Green Bay YMCA Swim Team head coach Alec Jeffers, the journey to main this system feels just like the pure subsequent step in a lifetime spent across the pool.
Jeffers, a Bay Port High School graduate and former standout swimmer at UW-Stevens Point, was launched to the game at a younger age by his father, Steve, who spent years teaching the Bay Port High School swim group.
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“When I was coaching high school, when he was probably 10 or 12 years old, he was always by my side,” Steve Jeffers stated. “He always wanted to help with lineups and matchups against other teams.”
That ardour carried Alec by way of a adorned collegiate swimming profession.
While competing at UW-Stevens Point, he established himself as one of many program’s high athletes and nonetheless holds the pool record within the 200-yard backstroke.
Courtesy: UW-Stevens Point Athletics
“When he graduated and left Point, there was a hole in the team that just couldn’t be filled,” UW-Stevens Point head swim coach Al Boelk stated. “He’s one of those guys that you don’t realize how much you’re going to miss until they’re gone.”
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After graduating, Alec started exploring teaching alternatives, rapidly realizing he had a ardour for serving to younger athletes develop each out and in of the pool.
“I really like trying to see kids reach their full potential,” Alec Jeffers stated. “And the joy that it brings when they eventually do.”
Alec later joined the Ferguson Family YMCA in downtown Green Bay as an assistant swim coach. And, not lengthy after becoming a member of the workers, the top teaching place opened up, and the timing was proper for him to take the next step.
And this subsequent bit right here you possibly can’t make up: Back within the day, Alec’s father, Steve, swam for the identical YMCA program.
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“It’s one of those things in life that went full circle,” Steve stated. “I never expected it and never really thought it was a possibility.”
Now, Alec Jeffers begins his head teaching profession in the identical group and on the identical pool that helped form each his and his father’s love for the game — a full-circle moment years within the making.
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