Leadership
Melanie McKula — President and Chief Executive Officer
(Our fearless leader!) Current President and Chief Executive Officer for The Capitol Sea Devils. She is originally from Maryland and went to Penn State University. She currently lives in Great Falls, VA and also works as an office manager for a Title and Abstracting company in Fairfax. She has been with Sea Devils since 2004, first as a clinic coach then in the Developmental and Age Group programs.
Contact: admin@seadevils.org
Ian Handerhan — Director of Coaching: Gold coach
Ian has been with TCSD since 2008 and has worked at every level of the program and currently coaches the Select and Gold Training programs at the St Albans site. Ian also serves as the Head Swim Coach at Army Navy Country Club (10+ years) and formerly of Thomas Jefferson HSST girls and boys teams (8 years). At the latter he has coached 6 individual All-Americans (achieving over 25 All-American times) and 9 All-American relay teams bringing home 11 Conference, 5 Region, and 2 State titles. In his free time he teaches Latin and Math classes at St. Agnes School in Arlington.
Contact: Ian.handerhan@gmail.com
Jared Diallo — South Run Site Coach: Gold/Select/Masters
Jared started with TCSD in 2019 and has coached every group from AG2 to Gold. He is currently the Gold and Select at South Run. Additionally, He is entering his fifth summer as Head Coach of the Fox Hunt Splash (NVSL), and is also the Head Coach with Robinson Swim and Dive (VHSL), coaching multiple All Americans and bringing home multiple Region and District championships . In his free time you can find him on a stage somewhere or at a Sox game.
Contact: coachjared18@gmail.com
Program Coaches
Bender JCC
Theresa Vaghi - Program Coach, AG2
This is Theresa’s first year coaching SDS. Previous to SDS she’d coached for multiple teams including serving as the head coach at Bethesda Country Club for 8 summers. She is also, currently in her second year as head swim and dive coach at Walt Whitman High School, where last year she coached multiple All-American swimmers and divers, as well as bringing home a Boys Maryland State Championship. When she is not on the pool deck, she is a special education teacher with MCPS. In her free time, Theresa loves traveling, concerts, and relaxing at the beach! She is an avid DC sports fan and loves Xavier basketball.
Chelsea Hubble - Program Coach
Chelsea began coaching with TCSD in 2023 and coaches Age Group 3, Bronze, and Silver Groups at JCC and Holton Arms. As of 2024, she also coaches the Middle School and Upper School teams at Sidwell Friends School. Prior to the Sea Devils, she coached her hometown summer team, the Brunswick River Rapids. A previous competitive swimmer Chelsea understands the highs and lows of swimming, and relishes in the opportunity to give swimmers kind words, detailed feedback, and so many cheers.
Holton-Arms
Reiley Adelson - Program Coach, Age Group 2
From Saratoga Springs, New York, Reiley is a former collegiate swimmer at Saint Michael’s College. Reiley works at the American Council of Life Insurers, and enjoys spending her evenings on the pool deck. She coached this past summer with Army Navy Country Club, and has loved to see the progress swimmers make throughout the season. Reiley is thrilled to be back for her second season with SDS!
South Run
Courtney Van Schagen — Program Coach: Age Group 1
Courtney is a proud product of the Northern Virginia Swim League, high school swimming, and winter training with the late Lou Sharp. She swam competitively from age 5-18, and coached at her home pool, Hayfield Farms, as well. She has two children who both swim for SDS with aspirations for college swimming and beyond. After many years as a Team Rep in the NVSL and on deck as a parent volunteer, the call of the chlorine became too hard to ignore and she returned to coaching in 2024 with AG1. Developmental programs are where the magic happens and Courtney is thrilled to help instill a love of the sport (and a solid dolphin kick!) in young swimmers.
Megan Grant — Assistant Program Coach: Age Group 2
Megan is excited for her first season coaching with Sea Devils! She is a Literacy Specialist/Instructional Coach and Varsity swim coach at St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School. During the summer, she coaches at Army Navy Country Club. Megan loves working with swimmers of all ages and building team spirit. She grew up in Potomac, Maryland, and swam for Potomac Woods Swim Team, Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club, and Georgetown Visitation. Megan started coaching for her summer swim team and later coached for RMSC, and Montgomery Stroke and Turn Clinic. She also spent nine years teaching and coaching high school and summer league swimming in Charlottesville.
St Albans
Kelsey Magill - Program Coach, Age Group 3B, Silver
Kelsey grew up in Ocean View, Delaware and moved to DC study political communication at The George Washington University. She grew up swimming and then coaching for the Sea Colony Sharks in Bethany Beach. She has been coaching with TCSD since 2013. Outside of the pool, where she currently coaches AG3 and Silver programs at St. Albans, Kelsey lives in Glover Park and works full-time as a non-profit fundraiser for a local organization called Martha’s Table. Her happy places are on a beach, on her yoga mat, or on a plane headed somewhere tropical.
Reese Samuel - Program Coach, Select.
From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attending Howard University. He grew up swimming for Upper St Clair Highschool and eventually Howard University. Winning a state championship and Conference Championship respectively. He lives in Brookland, DC and coaches the Howard University swim team as well. He also plays competitive Call of Duty for the University, in which he also won a championship. Being captain of two swim teams, he is very adept to being a leader.
Paige Sass - Program Coach, Age Group 1
Paige grew up in country club swim leagues. She has been coaching and teaching youth swimming since 1987, the past 7 years with the Sea Devils program. From 2006-2018 she was clerk of course for the CCSDA. She lives in Alexandria and works for the USPS OIG
Holden Shatouhy - Assistant Program Coach
From Ringwood, NJ, Holden is a former collegiate swimmer at Ithaca College. He grew up swimming for the Bergen Barracudas, and before coaching with us, he was the Head Coach of the Waldwick Warriors for five years. He currently lives in D.C. and works for The Catholic University of America on their communications team while getting his MSB there.
