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 CHRIS FUGMANN
Highbridge Aquatics was founded in the fall of 1990
by its present coach, Chris Fugmann. Chris grew
up in Lexington and participated
with the Greater Lexington Swim Association (GLSA) for 12 years. As a
youngster, Chris set 18 Kentucky State Records. His background also
includes water polo, when in 1975, was an All-American on the United States Water
Polo Team. As a college swimmer, Chris achieved All-American honors
nine times and, in 1980, became an NCAA national champion in 400 yard I.M.
Fugmann's coaching began during his college
summers. Chris spent four summers as head coach of the Lexington Country
Club. After graduation, he founded and coached the USS Brookhill
Swim Club for six years. He also coached the Lansdowne Club for two seasons
and eventually the Equestrian Woods Country Club team from 1990-1992.
Coach Fugmann is responsible for administering the Highbridge Aquatics program as well as directly
coaching each of the practice groups. Chris graduated in 1982 from Centre College with honors and a
B.A. in Business and Management. He is married and has two daughters ages
two and four. Chris is also the owner and vice-president of Climate Control
Corporation, a heating and air conditioning company in Central Kentucky. Chris was named
United States Swimming's Kentucky Coach of the
Year in 1986 and 1994. He continues to run a very strong, thorough
competitive age-group swimming program in Nicholasville that encompasses
young swimmers from ages 5 to 18.
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Bob
Peck:
Bob
Peck started swimming for Woodamere swim club in Versailles at age 10. At 14,
he started swimming year-round for GLSA in Lexington where he first
met Chris. That year, he won the 100 Breaststroke at the State meet and was
a member of a State Record relay. This was when he officially gave up
basketball.
After
winning the 100 Breaststroke at the State High School swim meet, Bob
attended Division I school, Western Kentucky. Before
graduating from Western in 1983, Bob had accomplished the following:
- 6 WKU School Records.
- 8 Individual
first place finishes at the Mid-West
Inter-Collegiate Swimming Championships.
- 8 Relay first
place finishes at the Mid-West Inter-Collegiate Swimming
Championships.
- 1982 Mid-West
Most Valuable Swimmer.
- 1982 WKU Most
Valuable Swimmer.
- 1983 WKU Team
Captain.
- WKU Rosecrantz Award winner (110% Award) 1980, 1981,
1983.
- 1983 WKU
Athlete of the year recipient.
- B.S. Degree
in Computer Science, with an Accounting major.
- 6
"Mish-Mash" team records - all of which still exist (ask
Bob)
In 1985,
Bob moved back to Lexington and was Chris'
assistant Coach at Brookhill Swim Club for the
next 4 years while working as a systems analyst. After a 2 year exile in Eastern Kentucky, Bob returned to Lexington, and was reunited
with Chris at Highbridge Aquatics. In 1994, Bob
left the computer software industry and began working with Chris at Climate
Control. In 2002, Bob accepted a position with Waterfurnace
International as a Territory Manager and still works with Chris as a
representative of the manufacturer.
In 1996,
Bob married Angie Fister of Lexington. Angie, a former
swimmer herself, is a graduate of Lafayette H.S. and the University of Kentucky and is employed
at Lexmark International. They have 2 children, Michael and Emily and both
of them love the water. Bob continues to swim off and on for Wildcat
Masters and will be helping with Highbridge
Aquatics part-time until his children become more active in the sport, at
which time, Highbridge will not be able to get
rid of him. Bob would like to apologize, ahead of time, to all the boys
named Michael on the team who may think that Bob is always yelling at them.
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Highbridge
Aquatics is pleased to welcome former Highbridge Aquatics
swimmer, Larissa Martin, for her first season coaching with
Highbridge Aquatics. An Asbury College student, Larissa is
a remarkable young lady who will be an outstanding coach for
the younger groups.
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