Coach Bev Arnold has been a Jay County resident all of her life. She graduated from Portland High School where she competed in volleyball, basketball, track, and cheerleading. She received her BS, MA, and Secondary Administration license all from Ball State University. Upon graduating from Ball State University in the fall of 1970, Coach Bev first taught and coached in the South Adams school district. When the new Jay County High School (JCHS) opened in 1975, Bev took the position of physical education teacher, head girls swim coach, head girls gymnastics coach, and Patriot Majorette/Guard Director. She later served as assistant girls soccer coach for ten years. Her last year of coaching gymnastics came in 1996 as swimming for high school girls moved from a fall to a winter sport and conflicted with the gymnastics season. She continued as the head JCHS swim coach until 2008 when she became Assistant Athletic Director and retired from high school coaching.
Coach Bev began her coaching career with the Jay County Summer Swim Team in the summer of 1965 while still in high school. Bev has been a coach of the summer swim team since that time, except for a couple of summers just after getting married. In 1992, Coach Bev formally organized the Jay County Winter Swim Team. For fourteen years prior to that time (1978 - 1992), Bev coached area swimmers who swam USS (now USA) meets “unattached.”
Coach - Cori Vormohr
Cori is a 10-year member of the Jay County Summer Swim Team. She also competed in high school for four years and on the Jay County Winter Swim Team for ten years. Cori just finished her junior year at Ball State University and is majoring in Special Education and Elementary Education. After graduation, I would love to secure a teaching position that will also allow me the opportunity to coach a swim team.
Some memberships and accomplishments include: Member of the Ball State Women's Swimming and Diving Team and lettered the past three years, Competitor at the Mid America Conference Swim Meet; Lifeguard for the past 5 years Certified in Lifesaving, CPR and First Aid; Taught public and/or private swim lessons for the past 8 years; Volunteered for the Make a Splash Program; Organized the Jay County Winter Swim Team stroke clinic with Coach Mike Kerr from Ball State University