Nick is a certified Level 5 member of the American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) and was named a member of the Coaching Staff for the USA Swimming National Junior Team 2014-2022. Coach Nick has served on multiple camp staffs for USA Swimming including being the Head Coach of the Girls National Select Camp in 2023.  Coach Nick was named the New England Swimming Age Group Coach of the Year for the 2014-15 and 2020-21 seasons as well as being a recipient of the 2014, 2016, 2021 Certificate of Excellence Award from the American Swimming Coaches Association. 

Nick brings experience from over 35 years of involvement in competitive swimming. He was previously the head coach of the Greater Holyoke YMCA Vikings and the North Oakland Waves at the North Oakland Family YMCA in Auburn Hills, MI.   Prior to that, he served as an Assistant Coach for Cheyenne Mountain Aquatics in Colorado Springs, CO. As a head coach, Nick led swimmers to compete at YMCA and USA States, YMCA and USA Zones, and YMCA Nationals including a 5^th Place overall Women’s Team Finish at the 2013 YMCA Long Course National Championship.  He has coached multiple overall champions at the State and Zone Levels, along with 12 YMCA National A-Finalists and 2 YMCA National Champions.  He was selected to serve as a member of the USA Zone Championship Coaching Staff in 2012 for Michigan LSC overseeing the 13-14 age group for that event. Nick swam for 4 years in college at Wayne State & Metro State Universities where he specialized in backstroke.   

Nick lives in Chicopee, MA with his daughter Evelyn.

Nick believes in developing well-rounded swimmers through vast technique focused drills and ample yardage to ensure a highly developed base for success across all disciplines and distances.

Ryan Yucka is the Head Coach at the Attleboro location.  Ryan comes to the Bluefish with 10+ years of coaching experience at YMCA's in Western Mass. He has coached every level of the sport and loves to work with all age groups. Recently, Ryan spent 7 years as head senior coach for the Greater Holyoke YMCA, who finished in 3rd place at the 2011 Y nationals, as well as Head coach at Holyoke Catholic High School. During his time in Holyoke, Ryan coached mostly sectional level swimmers, a few Jr. national and Senior national qualifiers as well as the teams first female Olympic Trial qualifier. Ryan graduated from Westfield State University and is a ASCA level 4 coach.

Coach Jacob joined Bluefish in Spring of 2023 and adds more than twenty five years of combined coaching and competitive swimming experience. Jacob has coached at nearly every level, having worked with brand new swimmers as young as six in age group programs across Western Massachusetts (Northampton Area Swimming, Hampshire Regional YMCA, and Pioneer Valley Aquatics Avengers), adults into their sixties and beyond while coaching masters at the Greater Holyoke YMCA, and many ages in between having also coached Northampton and Ludlow High School teams to local successes. He has had a multitude of swimmers that have become state champions, New England record holders, and All-Americans. Jacob was also named the 2023-2024 EMISCA West-Central Coach of the Year for his contributions to the Ludlow High School team. Despite all of the accolades he and the swimmers he has coached have racked up, the focus has never been on the results. Rather, the attention is on how setting and working towards goals can lead to success in the water as well in life beyond the pool. Ultimately, helping shape well rounded people through the sport of swimming is the most fulfilling aspect of the job. That is why he is equally proud of all the successes his athletes attain outside the sport, educationally, personally, and in every disipline.