JOE FLAHERTY'S DOLPHINS
- Winter Swimming--28 Seasons
- One swimmer who competed in the Olympic Trials
- One swimmer ranked #1 Nationally in two strokes
- Eleven swimmers ranked nationally in the top 16
- Thirty swimmers who have made the Eastern Zone All Star Team
- Three Eastern Zone Champions– Virginia to Maine
- Three swimmers honored as Potomac Valley Swimming’s Outstanding Athletes
MANCHESTER FARM & FLOWER VALLEY
- Montgomery County Swim League--31 Seasons
- MCF started in N division in 2000...B Division in 2004
- FV A Team: 22 years in the A Division mixed with three years in the B Division
- FV B Team: Last 16 seasons undefeated
- Traditionally retained large number of 15-18 year old swimmers-forty in 1998
- Trained & supervised a staff of 25 coaches
GOOD COUNCIL
- 8 Seasons
- Coach Flaherty’s last three years-Good Council was first place at Metros, as Metropolitan Area Champions
- Last seven consecutive seasons as Prep School League Champions
- Finished in the top three teams in Metros all but first season
- Six-&-a half consecutive seasons undefeated (48 dual meets)
OTHER
- In 2005 JFD received the Doc Counsilman Creative Coaching Award from the American Swim Coach's Association
- In 2003, JFD received the Small Business Award given by Montgomery County Workforce Investment Board for creating jobs and training coaches
- Newspaper Articles: The Washington Post: 2002, The Journal: 2000 & 1999
Guest speaker at World Coaches Convention SwimAmerica Seminar
- Coordinated & ran sixteen annual summer league coaches training clinics
- Guest speaker at Damascus Sports Association
- Three-time guest speaker on radio talk shows discussing benefits of athletics for youth
- Guest speaker at the University of Delaware Fellowship of Christian Athletes
- Guest speaker of Bannackburn PTA sponsored “Parents on the Sideline”
- TV guest appearance on “College Athletics & You” on Home Team Sports
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