Coaches & Directors

Roland "Greg" Davis

Head Coach/CEO

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Greg was born in Fairfield, Ca. in 1970 while his dad (Ro) was stationed there in the Air Force. After living in California, Nevada, Tennessee and then again in California, he graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1988. He attended De Anza Community College, Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV), and the University of California at Davis where he majored in Exercise Physiology and minored in Sports Psychology.  Greg is a certified Level 4 USA-Swimming coach by ASCA (American Swimming Coaches Association).

Greg was a high school All American swimmer in the individual medley and butterfly, and also achieved AA honors while swimming at De Anza College and UC Davis. Greg was a Junior National finalist (top eight) as well as senior national qualifier. He was a Top three finalist at the NCAA Championships and finished his career at Davis with seventeen All American selections and a school record. Greg finished his competitive career participating, as a finalist, in national lifeguard competitions as a member of the National Lifeguard Association.

Greg’s employment history, while certainly centered around swim coaching, includes three years experience with the elite Lifeguard Service for the City of San Diego. Greg was medically retired from this service due to a knee injury suffered on the job while in the course of making a double rescue. Greg has also been a pool manager, lifeguard, and Red Cross Water Safety, CPR and First Responder Instructor for several municipal recreation departments. He has been certified in Pool and Spa Operations and Oxygen Administration. Greg has also been a fitness instructor at YMCA’s and other fitness clubs.

Greg’s coaching career began as an assistant at De Anza Cupertino Aquatics (DACA). It includes Head Coaching positions at University of San Diego High School, where his team won a San Diego/CIF Championship in 1996 as well as three consecutive league titles. He also coached the Coronado High School Swim teams to their best ever finishes in 1998. Greg has also been Assistant Head Coach at Palo Alto High School, a perennial power in the Central Coast Section of the CIF. This program annually places numerous athletes on the HS All American lists.

Greg’s USA Swimming experience includes assistant coaching positions at Coronado Navy Swim Association, De Anza-Cupertino, San Jose Aquatics. and Palo Alto Swim Club. While at Palo Alto Swim Club, Greg was the coach of record for a female Olympic Trials qualifier and top ranked high school All-American. He served as the Head Coach for Coronado Navy from 1996-99. His accomplishments include elite national level competitors (Senior and Junior National Qualifiers), numerous high school All Americans, as well as two swimmers being placed on the Mexico National team.

Greg also served as the Assistant Coach for San Jose State Women’s team under Pablo Morales, former World Record Holder and Olympic Gold Medalist This Division I position included detailed assignments with swim training, recruiting, weight training, mental preparation and stretching.

Prior to moving to Mobile, Greg was a founding coach for Swim Kauai Aquatics (SKA) in Hawaii. Greg served as the head coach, senior coach, advanced age group coach, and master’s coach while helping to bring the club from two swimmers to seventy-three in just over two years.  Swim Kauai Aquatics has produced numerous Hawaii State qualifiers and finalists and top three medalists. He also coached Island School in Hawaii State High School competition, producing several top eight finishers.

Greg welcomes the opportunity to coach with CMSA!

Tyler Kerns

Head Age Group Coach

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Coach Tyler Kerns is in his fourth season coaching at CMSA and serves as the club’s Head Age Group Coach. He will be leading all coaches for age group swimmers.Tyler is an American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) Level 2 and United States Swimming certified coach. This summer, he was selected as an Assistant Coach on the Southeastern Swimming Zones All-Star Staff. In his brief time at CMSA, the Age Group program has seen wonderful success, including: an LSC Age Group Championship, an LSC (Southeastern Swimming) record swim, numerous individual and relay championship swims, 8 Top 16 Times, and over 35 CMSA team records.

Tyler has also served as a coach in the local summer league for over 10 years. Tyler has been the Head Swim Coach for the last eight years (2003-2010) at Spring Hill Swim Club in the Mobile County Aquatic League (MCAL). He also served as the club’s Aquatics Director for three years (2006-2008).  During that time he has grown the team from 80 swimmmers to over 250 swimmers, and has led Spring Hill Swim Club to five consecutive league titles.  Before 2006, another team held the title for nine consecutive years.  In July 2008, Tyler was selected as the MCAL Coach of the Year for the fourth time and third year in a row (2006-2008).  In his eight year tenure his teams have accomplished: five consecutive league titles (2006-2010), two sportsmanship awards (2003, 2005), two spirit awards (2003, 2005), twelve MCAL swimmers of the year, thirty-two individual and eight relay records.

In his swimming career, Tyler swam sprint freestyle events. As a Senior, he placed 4th in the 50 yard freestyle and anchored the State Champion 200 Freestyle Relay at the Alabama High School State Meet for St. Paul’s Episcopal School.

In addition to Tyler’s coaching success, he finished a formidable college baseball career at Spring Hill College and the University of South Alabama. Tyler started in nearly every game as a freshman for Spring Hill before transfering to USA. He pitched for the Jags during his three varsity letter seasons, and was a team captain during his junior and senior seasons. During the 2007 season, Tyler beat #10 Nationally Ranked Wichita State University in his last college performance.

Tyler graduated from the University of South Alabama, with honors, receiving his degree in Business Administration with an empahsis in Management, December 2007.  Tyler married Amanda (Berry) in October 2008 and the couple is expecting their first child in November. Tyler enjoys all sports and has a special appreciation for the level of skill it takes to be a successful swimmer. He welcomes the opportunity as Head Age Group Coach for CMSA and looks forward to continued success from the entire program.

Brian Duke

Assistant Coach

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A former CMSA swimmer, Brian joined the coaching staff in August 2009. His past coaching experience includes working the past eleven summers as a coach for summer league teams in Mobile. Brian is a certified USA-Swimming coach and a member of the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA). Brian attended Spring Hill College where he was a member of the Spring Hill College swim team. During his time at Spring Hill, the men’s swim team recorded three consecutive third place finishes at the National Association Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Championships. Brian gained NAIA All-American honors and Academic All-American honors. Recently, he completed a master’s degree in History at Auburn University. While coaching at CMSA Brian is working toward earning a teacher’s certificate. He works primarily with Age Group One and the Junior Group.

Geoffrey Hart

Assistant Coach

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Phoenix Fisk

Assistant Coach

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Anne Marie Sims

Masters Coach

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Anne Marie Sims is a lifelong resident of Mobile. She has been a swimmer on CMSA, parent and a coach.  She is the first CMSA swimmer to attend the Olympic Trials, in 1980. She is the 1978 YMCA National Champion in the 50 free and the 1978 Junior Olympic Champion in the 100 Free. She attended the University of Alabama on scholarship and became a 5-time college All-American. She has two children, Caitlin 19, a student at the University of Montevallo, and Zachary 15, who swims for CMSA. Anne Marie is the Head Masters Coach and also coaches the Senior 1 program for CMSA.