Coaches
Mentors
Friends
Our co-founders
Timmy hayes
Timmy spearheads fundraising efforts and on-the-ground activities in Managua, including running swim classes, directing the scholarship program, organizing a variety of special projects and behind-the-scenes work, identifying possibilities for growth, and forming relationships in the community. He also travels to the U.S. several times each year to promote the organization.
Like our other co-founder Scot, Timmy attended the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 2011 a degree in Spanish. While at Virginia, Timmy won four ACC titles competing on the Varsity Swimming & Diving team.
Timmy has lived in Nicaragua full-time since early 2013. He is a passionate surfer and he has explored most of Nicaragua’s Pacific coast in search of good waves. Timmy is married and has a son named Theo and a daughter named Camden
scot Robison
Scot lives in Austin, Texas and works for Danaher Corporation. Scot focuses on the finance, marketing, and planning activities for Nica Nadadores in addition to his day job.
Scot enjoys visiting Nicaragua and like the other co-founders, Scot travels within the U.S. to share the Nica Nadadores story.
In addition to his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, Scot has an MBA from the Darden School of Business. During his time as an undergrad, Scot captained the Varsity Swimming & Diving team, where we won multiple ACC and NCAA honors along with a few international medals for Team USA.
Scot is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hiking, fly fishing, and photography.
kyle shoemaker
Based in Pennsylvania, Kyle’s responsibilities include organizing fundraising events, planning swimmer exchange opportunities, managing IT needs, as well as a handful of business-related duties.
Since his days as captain of the Clemson Swimming & Diving program, Kyle has discovered a passion for coaching. He spent several years working with clubs in the Lehigh Valley area.
Kyle works as a financial advisor in Allentown, PA. He makes yearly trips to Managua to visit Nica Nadadores programs and makes an immediate impact on our swimmers in-water technical skills. Kyle hopes to continue to find ways for our swimmers to elevate their level of swimming and compete with experience.
Kyle is married and has a son named Heath.
COACH DANA HAYES
Dana Hayes is wife of co-founder Timmy Hayes and has lived in Nicaragua full-time since 2014.
Dana works part time as the Development Manager & Nicaragua Site Administrator for Manna Project International – a nonprofit in Managua that works in health, livelihood, and education.
Dana’s runs English Immersion programs for Nica Nadadores, assists with marketing materials, and coordinates travel visas for student-athletes traveling or studying abroad. Dana is an avid practitioner of martial arts and lifelong dog lover.
nicaraguan leadership
Our mission of empowering the next generation of leaders is our number one priority. The most sustainable and positive way to nurture our mission is through investing in Nicaraguan coaches.
Hamilton Treminio started out as a swimmer with Nica Nadadores at the age of 12. In 2022, Hamilton began a more active role coaching novice groups and leading community service initiatives. Hamilton is a highly accomplished swimmer and he is in his second year of an engineering degree at Universidad Americana (UAM). Hamilton speaks strong English, he has traveled internationally to compete, and he has earned the respect of every swimmer in our program.
volunteer opportunities
In June of 2015 Nica Nadadores played host to our very first program intern. Since then, we’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with numerous volunteers, high school groups, and interns who have made an impact on our organization with their creativity, intelligence, passion, curiosity and drive. Swimmers and non-swimmers have spent days or months on the ground in Managua experiencing the process of what it takes to empower young leaders.
The Nica Nadadores internship program is not for the faint of heart. Interns and volunteers have tackled difficult projects and the common theme among our visitors is a high resolve to get the job done. Although teaching swimming is part of the volunteer experience, we pride ourselves in giving our volunteers real responsibility. We expect a high level of self-initiative and help with data collection for grant applications, community census to gage our participant’s needs, manual labor to maintain our facility, and assisting in promoting the Nica Nadadores brand.
join our team today
You can contribute to building one of the best youth development organizations in the Americas. There are several ways to help the program without traveling to Nicaragua including hosting a swimmer, sponsoring a swimmer, organizing a fundraising event, collecting equipment or supplies, or even just sharing our social media posts.
We’d love to have you on the ground in Nicaragua with us. If you want to feel immersed in our community and make an impact on our swimmers than please reach out to us directly.