American University
4400 Massachusettes Ave. Washington DC, 20016
Programs at American University
Competitive Team
Our competitive team swims year-round. A try-out is required before registering.
Our Stroke School is devoted to competitive stroke instruction with an emphasis on balance in the water through specialized drills. The program is for swimmer under 14 looking for a supplement for summer league.
Our Swim School has been serving the DC area for over 30 years. We have a wide variety of learn-to-swim classes for ages 3 - 8 years old at American University.
Competitive Team
2025-26’ Season.
2025-26’ Season.
2025-26’ Season.
Coaching Staff
Tim Kelly - Head Coach, Lead Gold 1, Lead Gold 2
Coach Tim has been coaching full time for the past 33 years and first started coaching with the club in 1995 where he coached 3.5 years at the Tyson’s Corner and AU sites. After that, he spent 8 years of coaching at the Collegiate level, at Purdue University and Davidson College. Tim returned to NCAP in the Spring of 2006 as the Head Coach of the American University site. As a swimmer, he was a Sr. National and Division I NCAA qualifier at Southern Illinois University. His wife Abby (formerly Barnett) swam for NCAP back in 1978 when the club first started and his kids (Jordan and Madison) learned to swim and swam for the club.
Andy Rosenthal - Gold 2, Lead Silver 1
Andy started his coaching career with NCAP in 2016. He is currently the lead coach of the Bronze 1 and Silver 1 groups at the American University Site. He has previously worked with the Silver 2 group at AU and many of the groups at the Holton Arms site. Andy swam for NCAP while growing up and went on to swim at Middlebury College, where he specialized in distance freestyle and butterfly. Andy also spent 7 years as the head coach of the Rockshire Sharks in the MCSL.
Taylor Ploy - Lead Silver 2, Lead Bronze 1
Coach Taylor is joining NCAP for her first season this Fall 2023. Taylor grew up in Pittsburgh, PA where she started club swimming at the age of five with West Allegheny Aquatic Club. She spent a portion of her career at Boeing before she decided to go back to her true love of coaching. She has coached USA, USMS, and High School teams in Sonoma County, CA and south Georgia.
Her most recent team, Tiftarea Tidalwave, was a small market team in Georgia that managed to go toe to toe with bigger teams in Atlanta despite being in a rural area of Georgia. They have produced several Division I swimmers and had a 2022 Georgia LSC 100m breaststroke champion. In 2023, Taylor was selected by Georgia LSC to coach the Age Group Zones Team. She also still loves to compete and won a 2021 Speedo Salt Series Open Water Championship. In her time away from the pool, Taylor enjoys camping and watching movies with her wife Amanda and chasing their two cats, Beerus and Lady Bird.
Miah Lopez - Bronze 1 Assistant
This will be Miah's first year with Nation's Capital, and she is thrilled to be joining the Bronze 1 group! Originally from Florida, Miah grew up swimming for the Sarasota YMCA Sharks. She brings over five years of coaching experience and just completed her second season as the Assistant Head Coach at Potomac Glen for MCSL.
Miah is also a collegiate swimmer, recently earning Rookie of the Year and setting a conference relay record. She is currently studying psychology and is passionate about promoting a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Miah looks forward to making a positive impact both in and out of the water and is excited to share her love for the sport with her swimmers.
Calen Janesky - Lead Bronze 2
Calen started with NCAP in 2020 and has worked for the swim school, developmental, and competitive team. Previously, she worked as an instructor for the AU Swim School program; she ran the AU Developmental program for the 2022-2023 season; she worked at NCAP Holton's location as the Bronze 1 Assistant Coach and Gold 3 Coach. She now runs our AU Bronze 2 group, Marymount Swim School and Developmental Programs, and is a member of NCAP’s admin team.
Calen swam competitively throughout high school, which inspired her to coach for her hometown summer swim team in Mesa, Arizona. She attended American University, where she started working for NCAP as a swim instructor and was promoted to a full time coach in 2023. She is passionate about making swimming fun and safe for kids, so that they can enjoy the sport while still growing and improving. In her free time, Calen likes to rock climb, read, and go hiking!