KONSTANTIN PETROV  212-369-8890 x2260

AGUA Head Coach / Senior Team, ASCA Level 4

Asphalt / Senior Team Coach, ASCA Level 3

Head Coach Brian Brown is in his sixth season leading the AGUA Swim Team. Under Coach Brown's guidance AGUA has produced 5 Olympic Trials qualifiers,  3 National Junior Team members, and more than a dozen Senior and Junior National qualifiers. 

During his tenure AGUA has also set 5 National Age Group records, 20+ Metropolitan LSC records, and more than 250 team records.  As a team AGUA won the 2004 Summer Super Sectional Championship and placed second in the 2004 Spring Sectional and 2005 Summer Super Sectional meets.   

Coach Brown's philosophy --"Work Works"-- has also helped AGUA swimmers excel in the classroom as evidenced by the 16 individual Scholastic All-American Award winners on the team so far.  

Coach Brown has a broad aquatic background, having coached all levels from learn-to-swim programs to USA Swimming and Masters teams, as well as NCAA Division I teams at Davidson College in North Carolina.  As a result of this expertise and his work developing Senior National athletes, Coach Brown was awarded the USS Level 4 certification in 1998 from the American Swimming Coaches Association. This ranks him in the top 5% of coaches in the country.  In 2002, 2004, and 2006 he also received awards of excellence from the American Swimming Coaches Association for the Top-8 performances of his athletes at the National level.  

In 1985 Coach Brown received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University where he was also a varsity letter-winner on the Lions swim team.  Coach Brown, his wife Leslie, and their 6 year-old son Seamus live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.

Coach Konstantin "Kostya" Petrov was an Olympic Swimmer for Russia and swam on the international scene for more than a decade during the 1980's.   He won a bronze medal in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea while swimming the butterfly leg of the 400 Medley Relay. 

Kostya has been teaching swimming for more than 15 years.  His first decade of coaching occured in the Republic of Kazakhstan (formerly of the USSR) where he was the Head Coach of the "Dynamo" swim club in Almaty and developed many swimmers who competed for the Kazakhstan National Team.  

Kostya began working with AGUA in 2000.   He also coaches the AGUA Masters Team, teaches advanced swimming lessons, and works with the Asphalt Green Swim Camp.  Still active in the sport, Kostya has set one Masters World Record, was a Master's National Champion, and a 2000-2001 Masters All-American.

Kostya and his wife Tania, a swimming and diving instructor at Asphalt Green, reside in Brooklyn, NY with their daughter Julia.

BRIDGETTE CAHILL  212 369-8890 x2235

BRYAN BEARY   212 369-8890 x2240

Green Team

Junior / Asphalt Team, ASCA Level 2

Bridgette Cahill is in her first season with the AGUA Swim Team.  A 2006 graduate from Brown University with a BA in History of Art and Architecture, Bridgette was a 4-year letterman in college and president of Brown's student-athlete advisory committee. 

Bridgette grew up swimming with the Jersey Wahoos in Mount Laurel, New Jersey where was a Senior National qualifier in high school.  Shed also began her coaching career in New Jersey with the Wahoo's age group program where she learned to emphasize the fundamentals of the sport.

She currently lives with in Manhattan within a stone's throw of Asphalt Green. 

Bryan Beary is a USA swimming and ASCA certified coach with over nine years involvement in the sport of competitive swimming. Starting as an age group swimmer, he went on to lead the Chaminade High School swim team to a New York State Championship in 1996.

Bryan's USS involvement stems from training year-round with Long Island Express, where he qualified for the Junior National competition in 1999. Graduating in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree from Mary Washington College, Bryan was a four-year All-Conference finisher for the Eagles men’s team, and captain his senior year.

During his tenure at Mary Washington, he coached Nassau County summer league swim programs for a total of three years. Bryan has spent the past year in Kansas City, coaching the Kansas City Spirit, an age group USS team.

With his competitive focus lying in distance events, Bryan is skilled at refining both mechanical and technical aspects of the strokes. He is happy to be back in New York and is looking forward to working with AGUA, trying to pass on the love of swimming he has developed throughout his career.

ERIC BRANDOM  212 369-8890 x2250

Junior / Green Team

Eric is a recent graduate of the University of Vermont where he received a Bachelors Degree in History.  During summers and on holidays, Eric worked for the Mamaroneck Recreation Department as an Assistant Swim Coach supervising 80+ children ages 5-17.  While in college Eric was Captain of the University of Vermont Swim Club and the Water Polo Club.