Stephen Clendenin is starting his fifth season with NCAP. He has been a competitive swimmer since he was 9 years old and has been swimming in Northern VA since 2001. He graduated from the University of Mary Washington in 2011 with a degree in English. During his college career, he was awarded the Capital Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Year for three consecutive years and he was Rookie of the Year his freshman year. He went undefeated in all his individual conference races, went to the NCAA Division III Championships all four years of college and is a six-time All-American athlete. After graduating college, he coached at Saint Vincent College in western PA for two years, helping that team to two winning seasons. Stephen returned to coaching and swimming PVS in 2013 and competed in eight different National-level meets, including Summer and Winter Nationals and the Arena Pro Swim Series. In 2015, he won the high point award at the Eastern Sectional Meet. He is an ASCA Level 2 coach, has been coaching club for 15 years, and coached summer league for 12 years. Stephen is passionate about swimming; his goal as a coach is always to share that passion and to help his athletes find their own love of the sport. He loves coaching and has a lifelong commitment to be the best coach he can be.

Coach Fisher has been an active member of the swimming community for the past 20 years. After swimming competitively through high school, Coach Fisher transitioned to teaching lessons at his local YMCA before moving to Life Time Swim as a coach and instructor. He first began working with NCAP in January 2019 as an assistant coach with Stephen at Dulles South before rejoining Life Time as the head site coach of their Ashburn/Sterling location in July 2020. Coach Fisher is ready and excited to be working with NCAP again in building great athletes and people!

Ryan Cunningham is really excited to coach with NCAP this year. He wants to share his love and passion for the sport of swimming with the younger swimmers. He began his journey at the age of 7 with PWSL summer swim all the way through to the age of 18. At age 13 he joined NCAP west as a year-round swimmer with the Gold-2 group. He has continued to train with them through his college breaks. Coach Ryan also swam varsity at Patriot High School and was captain at Brentsville High school. Coach Ryan has been attending Bridgewater College for the past 3 years. During this time Ryan was an All-Conference and All-State swimmer. He set numerous varsity records at Bridgewater and has helped build the team. Looking forward to a great season with the NCAP team.

Emalee Firestein's life-long love of swimming began when she started swimming competitively at the age of six, and continued until heading off to college at age 18. She spent nine years swimming year-round with the FISH in McLean, VA, summer league with various Shenandoah Valley Swim League teams, and her high school's varsity swim team. Emalee holds multiple James Wood High School records in distance freestyle events. She currently lives near Chantilly, VA, and enjoys technology and spending time outdoors.