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Our coaching staff

Bill Price

Email: coach@swimsaluki.com

 Bill Price

Bill served as the Saluki Head Coach from 1990 to 1997 and again from 2000 to the present. Prior to coming to Carbondale his almost 30 year coaching career has included positions in Pennsylvania, Florida, Malaysia, Brunei, and Vermont.

His coaching stints in Asia were focused on developing age group sport programs at both a state and national level. This work eventually led him to his Masters thesis "Sport Structure in the U.S.S.R." Since then his main professional interest has been athlete development.

BS Physical Education (1977), MS Physical Education (1989) both from East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

  

 

Gustavo Leal

Email: lealusa@yahoo.com

  

Gustavo Leal

Gustavo began coaching with Saluki in 1999 and is primarily responsible for Groups 2 and 3.

Gustavo started swimming when he was 3 because his two older brothers were already swimming. He liked it and gave up all other sports (judo, soccer and handball) when he was 10 to become a full time swimmer.

He got his first national title (Brazil) in the 100m freestyle as an 11-year-old. He was selected twice for the national age group team representing Brazil in swim meets around South America and Europe. He came to the US when he was 18 and swam with Florida Aquatics Swim Team in Gainesville, Florida. He attended Indian River Community College for two years before transferring to SIU.

BS Management, BS Marketing (2000), MBA (2003), all at Southern Illinois University.

  

 

Gaby Flores

Email: tataflo@hotmail.com

 

Gaby Flores

Gaby Flores started swimming when she was 2 yrs old because her parents wanted her to learn how to swim. At age 7, she started winning state meets at her home town of Queretaro, Mexico and gave up soccer and volleyball. At age 11, she won her first national title in the 100 freestyle but later realized that butterfly was her best stroke.

She was a member of the Mexican national team holding multiple national records and represented her country around the world from age 12 until age 16 when she moved to Jacksonville, Florida to swim at the The Bolles School. After graduating from high school, she came to Southern Illinois University and swam for 4 years finishing her swimming career with a MVC Team Championship in February 2007. She holds the Missouri Valley Conference record in the 200 yards butterfly.

Gaby will be graduating with a Biological Science degree in May of 2008 and wants to then begin her studies to become a nurse.