The 2022-2023 season will begin Coach Karr's 18th year with ACST. As an athlete he swam and graduated from Columbus North High School and Auburn University. In high school he was a six time Indiana High School state champion, including 3 straight state titles in the 100 backstroke. He finished his high school career helping Columbus North to a team state championship in 1998. While at Auburn he was a 6 time All-American and a member of the 1999 National Championship team. He was also a member of an SEC championship and record setting 400 Medley relay team. His swimming career culminated when he competed in the 2000 Olympic Trials back home in Indianapolis.

In his tenure as a coach of ACST he has shown that he is committed to both ACST and Indiana Swimming. He has become ASCA level 2 certified, and attends many professional conferences and seminars. Coach Karr has also represented ACST as both an assistant and a head coach at Indiana Swimming sponsored camps. He has also been a member of the Indiana Zone Team’s coaching staff. He has also been honored by his peers by being selected 2010 Indiana Swimming Age Group Coach of the Year and 2014 and 2016 Indiana High School Athletic Association Coach of the Year. During that span his Avon High School Teams finished as state runner-up in 2014 and 3rd place finishes in 2015 and 2016.

In his 17 years at Avon his athletes have consisted of several state champions, state record holders, national Top 16 finishes, 3 National Junior Team qualifiers, 1 Junior World Championship top 5 finish, and a national high school record holder.

Coach Karr would like to thank you for being a valued member of our team. He knows what it takes to be successful in this sport, and he is thrilled for the opportunity to share his knowledge and experience with the parents and athletes of ACST.

Coach Sara comes to us from Center Grove Aquatic Club and is ASCA Level 2 certified. Coach Sara is skilled at recognizing fears and shortcomings in swimmers' techniques and implementing drills to counteract those faults, all while building endurance. Coach Sara expects the swimmers to be disciplined and respectful and uses high-energy, active coaching to motivate swimmers. She believes the keys to success are positivity, praise, and fun races at the end of training sessions. Coach Sara also uses her computer science background to generate reports in order to help the team make important data-driven decisions. She lives with her husband, daughter, and three sons in North Salem, Indiana.

Brock is no stranger to ACST. As a young man he swam for ACST where his hard work and dedication led him to win the Most Improved award. He swam for four years and graduated in 2018 from Decatur Central High School. At Decatur Central he was twice named team captain, twice named MVP and also won the sportsmanship award twice. For the past 5 years he has been coaching for Decatur's swim club. He recently finished up the 2023-2024 season as Head Coach for Decatur Middle School where his swimmers had a great season with countless time drops and PRs. He is excited to join us at ACST and looks forward to bringing energy, positivity and a great work ethic to our team.

This coach is awesome!

The 2022-2023 season begins Coach Brayton's third season with ACST. We are happy to have his high energy and experience here at ACST.  In High School as a swimmer, his leadership and athletic abilities were on diplay and resulted in being a team captain and winning high point awards at Decatur Central High School.

He graduated in 2015 and started at Franklin College. In 2017, he found himself back in the pool as a swim coach, and that is where his coaching journey began. In 2019 he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Exercise Science with Fitness and Coaching minors. He has been using his degree as his approach to the sport of swimming because he believes education is the foundation for the strongest swimmers. He like to focus specifically on the biomechanics of movement, the different physiologic components that the sport can include, and hit hard on the importance of fuel and recovery of the body.

He has really enjoyed the educational piece of coaching and has decided to go into teaching. He is currently a substitute teacher for Avon High School and working toward earning his teaching license over the next couple years. His favorite and most meaningful personal achievements he has earned as a coach so far is receiving a personally written letter and getting recognition at a scholarship banquet as a mentor and influencer of student athletes. We are excited for our athletes to be coached and mentored by Brayton.

Coach details will be posted soon

This coach is awesome!