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The girls’ synchro team hopes for a winning season if they can overcome the challenge of being short staffed after losing three coaches, according to senior and captain Aubree Frank.

The three coaches, Ashley Magnuson, Nikki Bosanko and Sammy Worthingham, have quit for several different reasons.

“Ashley was offered a job as the head coach at a different school’s synchro team and is working hard in college,” Frank said.  “Nikki has also been busy with school and her other part-time job and Sammy has a different job and is focusing more on coaching a club team called Aquafins.”

According to head coach Linda Gust, two of these coaches were part time and the third was a full time coach who quit a week before the season started, making her hard to replace. Nonetheless, the team has figured out a way to handle it by hiring some of the teams previous synchro swimmers.

“You figure out a different way of doing things so it doesn’t affect the swimmers, we the coaches might have to do more things we normally wouldn’t do but it’s working,” Gust said.

This lack of coaches has inspired three previous St. Louis Park synchro swimmers to come back and help out their old team.

“Jenna Frank, Rose Evenson and Maia Liss are all graduates and have come back to help the coaches,” Frank said. “They are helpful in different ways than the other coaches because they’ve been willing to get in the pool with us, they’ve cut music and written routines and are really great at interacting with many of the younger swimmers.”