Lakeside Masters Coaches' Bios

   Bill Tingley

Head coach Bill Tingley has been an integral teammate and coach of the Lakeside Masters Swim Team since 1981. With over 30 years of Masters coaching and expertise, Bill has watched the team grow and improve over the past 28 years. He, as well as several of his swimmers, hold Masters All-American and World Championship titles, and are continually ranked in the top ten in the country. In 1991, the team won the United States Masters Swimming Long Course Championship. Bill rounds off his coaching resume by serving on the Kentucky Local Masters Swim Committee. He has also spent 9 years serving on the board of Kentucky's Local Swim Committee for USA Swimming. He has received both of Masters Swimming's prestigious national awards of Coach of the Year in 1989, and the Ransom Arthur Award in 1998.

Bill's love of competitive swimming continued with his two sons, Michael and Christopher. Michael was a nationally-ranked collegiate swimmer at Michigan State University and Chris swam at the University of Missouri and University of Louisville. Bill has supported the swimming community by serving as a certified NCAA Swimming official and works with the Kentucky High School Athletic Association, as a meet administrator and registered official.

   Chris Tingley

Chris Tingley is enjoying his fifth year as an assistant coach of the Lakeside Masters. A former age group, high school and collegiate swimmer, Chris has been a part of competitive swimming all his life. Chris began swimming with the Lakeside Seahawks when he was six years old. A member of Louisville’s St. Xavier state championship teams from '96-'00, Chris was a 4-time high school All-American and a two-time State Champion in the 100 Backstroke. 

He swam in college at the University of Missouri and University of Louisville. Chris is a full-time member of the Lakeside staff, working as Aquatics Assistant. He also serves as swim meet manager and equipment technician at the University of Louisville’s Ralph Wright Natatorium. The son of Coach Bill Tingley, Chris has been swimming with Lakeside Masters since 2001, is a Masters All-American Backstroker and was a National Champion in 2009.

    Marty O'Toole

In his 12th year as Lakeside Masters' assistant coach, Marty O'Toole has brought years of both swimming and coaching experience to the team. Marty's swimming career was marked with early successes as a three-year high school All American and State and Junior National Championships in freestyle and breaststroke while at St. Xavier High School. He was undefeated in the 100 yard Breaststroke for four years.

He also coached St. Xavier's successful swim team (the team just won their 21st consecutive Kentucky High School State Championship). After a long absence from swimming, Marty now competes on Lakeside's Masters team as well as serves as assistant coach. His focus is on seeing improvements in the swimmers he works with and helping them achieve their personal goals.

Mary Graves

Mary Graves is Lakeside Swim Club's Assistant General Manager and Manager of Aquatic Operations. She also serves as the administrative coordinator and coach for the Masters team. Mary has coached Masters programs for over 20 years. She began at E.P. 'Tom" Sawyer State Park and came to Lakeside in 1983.

Swimming is an active part of Mary's life as well. Both Mary and her husband Michael swim with the Masters team. Their son Paul and daughter Laura swam on the Lakeside SeaHawks Swim Team and for the Western Kentucky University.