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Jake Shellenberger is currently in his third season at the helm of the Liberty University Women's Swim Team. Hired to start the Lady Flames brand new program in 2009, Jake has helped build a winner. This year's squad placed second at the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association Conference Championship meet for the second consecutive year, and also qualified their second different NCAA qualifier in as many years. The 2012 CCSA Coach of the Year, Jake has trained 2 different NCAA individual qualifiers and 7 different student-athletes to NCAA "B" cuts in just three years in Lynchburg.
Jake got his college coaching start as the head coach at Millersville University before spending three seasons as an assistant coach at Penn State University in State College, PA. At PSU Jake coached 15 NCAA qualifiers, 13 school record holders, eight NCAA All-America honorable-mention performers, two Olympic Trials finalists, two NCAA All-Americans and the Nittany Lion’s first-ever individual national champion (Pat Schirk/2008 national champion in the men’s 200y backstroke).
Also while at Penn State Shellenberger had the opportunity to volunteer coach at the University of Arizona during the summer of 2007 and was mentored by U of A head coach and U.S. Olympic Coach Frank Busch and Arizona's world renowned sprint coach Rick DeMont.
Prior to joining the college ranks Jake coached U.S.A. Club swimming and summer league swimming for 5 years, teaching technique, speed, and endurance development to athletes ages 4 to 18.
A former Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (C.S.C.S.), Shellenberger also has an extensive background in strength and conditioning and athletic development and wrote and conducted dryland and general athletic improvement programs for his athletes at Penn State and the U.S.A. club and summer league programs he coached.
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Jessica Barnes joined the Liberty staff as an assistant swim
coach in 2010, becoming the first assistant coach in Liberty history. While at LU Jessica has coached several CCSA Conference Champions along with many NCAA individual "B" cuts. Jessica is no stranger to swimming success and was a member of two Big Ten Championship Teams as a student-athlete for Penn
State University. She came to Liberty from Rutgers, where she served as an assistant coach.
Prior to coaching at Rutgers, Barnes worked as an assistant high school swim
coach for the State College Area School District in State College, Pa. While
there, she designed and implemented a training program for sprinters, and
coached the third-place finisher in the 50-freestyle event at the 2009 PIAA
State Championship meet.
As a competitive swimmer, Barnes was a two-time honorable mention All-American in the 800 freestyle relay, was a two-time NCAA Academic All-American and a three-time Big Ten Academic all-conference member. She was also a Big Ten second team selection for the 800 freestyle relay in 2006, and won the Nittany Lion Award for Most Improved in 2007.