Competitive Coaching Staff

Tristan VowlesTristan Vowles

Head Coach and Director of Swimming Operations

Lakeshore Performance Group Coach

Email:tristan@lakeshoreswimclub.com

Tristan has been the Head Coach of Lakeshore Swim Club since the 2021-22 season. He began his coaching career with the Hamilton Aquatic Club, and worked as an assistant coach with the Etobicoke Swim Club for 7 years, where he was a part of numerous Ontario Provincial Championship winning teams, as well as the Canadian Junior Championship winning team in 2018. He believes in coaching each athlete on an individual level, inspiring them to create ambitious goals, and enabling fulfilment through challenge. He has developed a philosophy of coaching centered on values of effort, attitude, professionalism, and teamwork to achieve high performance results.

Tristan has had many athletes excel at the Provincial and National level. Some of Tristan’s personal coaching accomplishments include:

  • 1 swimmer selected to Team Ontario for the 2025 Canada Games in St. John’s, Newfoundland, who won 6 individual medals in the 1500FR, 400IM, 400FR, 200FL, 800FR, and 3km open water
  • Named to Team Ontario staff for the 2025 Canada Games
  • 1 swimmer selected for the 2017 Junior World Championships in Indianapolis, representing Albania for the 800FR, 1500FR, and 400IM
  • 2 swimmers in the Junior finals at Canadian Trials, including a silver medalist in the women’s Junior 1500FR
  • 1 swimmer on an Ontario Provincial relay record
  • 7 swimmers in the top 20 at Ontario Junior International, including a silver medalist in the women’s 1500FR
  • 6 swimmers in the top 20 at Canadian Junior Championships, including a bronze medalist in the women’s 800FR and a silver medalist in the women’s 3KM open water
  • Numerous winners, medalists, and finalists at the Ontario Provincial Championships

In Tristan’s four years as Head Coach:

  • Lakeshore has won medals at Trials, Ontario Junior International, Canadian Open, and Canadian Junior Championships
  • 2 swimmers have finished their season ranked top 16 in the country, open age category
  • 4 swimmers have won individual gold medals at the Ontario Swimming Championships
  • 3 swimmers have qualified at the Trials level
  • Lakeshore has achieved its highest ever club ranking at every level of competition, from Regional to National
  • Lakeshore swimmers have combined for over 400 club records, including 72 individual senior
    records – 34 of those in the 2024-25 season alone

Tristan is excited to take pre-competitive athletes, foster their development through age group and senior level swimming, and prepare them for university athletics and life beyond the pool deck. He islooking forward to building a culture of excellence, and developing the next wave of great athletes and great people at Lakeshore Swim Club

Riley Loewen

Email:riley@lakeshoreswimclub.com

Coach Riley is eager to transition his passion as a competitive swimmer to that of an enthusiastic coach ready to learn and grow. He is excited to bring the knowledge acquired from completing a Kinesiology degree at the University of Toronto and his many years of competitive swimming experience to the swimmers under his guidance. Riley has had the privilege to learn from many distinguished coaches from the Etobicoke Swim Club and the University of Toronto. His swim career highlights would include many leadership awards, culminating in being named ESWIM’s Swimmer of the Year. His coaches could attest that he was the hardest working swimmer at practice. Results come from hard work, Riley prides himself in excellent time management skills, commitment to task, self motivation and discipline and expects the same of his swimmers. Riley’s favourite races were always the relays. He thrived in the pressure to perform for his teammates and club. Swimming develops life long skills, life long friendships and excellent academic opportunities. Riley attributes his success in the academic world and confidence in life to the coaches and people of the swimming community. He loves this opportunity to give back in the Lakeshore community to help young athletes to learn and grow and flourish in the sport of swimming. 


Jorge Ardila Abarca


Jorge's passion for swimming started at an early age in Peru, where he would learn that swimming would be part of his life. Upon coming to Canada, Jorge took a position at the Downtown YMCA of Quebec in Montreal, which he held for 7 years, coaching swimmers in the Masters program. Here, he prepared daily training to improve athletes' endurance and swimming skills. He also coached at the competitive swim club at Du Parc YMCA, where his group participated in the 2019 Team Festival in Montreal. At the same time, he was working as a swim instructor in the Centre D'Education Physique et des Sports de L'Université de Montréal, and as a coach of the Masters program in Montreal city pools. Jorge went on to coach in the age group competitive program at Neptune Natation in Montreal for 2 years, where his experience and skills allowed him to lead successful groups. At Neptune, he took 19 athletes to the Regional Cup, 5 swimmers to Quebec Provincial Championships, and 2 swimmers to the Quebec Games in 2022. He was also responsible for the Masters program. Jorge is pursuing his passion for swimming as a coach working with children and teens, hoping to pass on his discipline and love for the sport to others through hard work, excellence and fun. Now, as Senior Development Lead and Senior/Regional Group Coach at Lakeshore, he is excited to face a new challenge, and inspire swimmers to do their best and achieve their goals.

Maclaine Moore 


Maclaine began her swimming career at the age of 16 with Etobicoke Swim Club under coach Tristan Vowles. She then spent the last 5 years at Wilfrid Laurier University where she swam on the varsity team and completed her undergraduate degree in Math and Economics. During her years in the pool, Maclaine competed at various levels including Provincials, Easterns, OJI, OUA’s, and Far Westerns in California. Growing up around the sport she started coaching at 16 in the pre-competitive program at ESWIM as well as assisting her sister in coaching a competitive group. While in university, she coached a pre-competitive group for the Region of Waterloo Swim Club. As a new addition to the club, Maclaine is excited to be back on the pool deck learning and growing alongside her swimmers. She is looking forward to spreading her love and knowledge for the sport this upcoming season with Lakeshore.

Chris Pietrangelo 


Chris started his sport endeavours with Running and Hockey. Cross Country and Middle Distance Track was his focus from High School to early University. He started competing in swimming in 2012 at York University. Through the help of great teammates and coaches, he was able to improve fairly quickly and compete well. He started coaching/instructing shortly after, and was efficient at bringing swimmers into the sport at a pre-competitive level. Chris's competitive coaching career started in 2021 with the Etobicoke Track Field Club. During the 2023 Cross Country Season he co-coached the Athletics Ontario U14 Girls Team Champions, MTA (Minor Track Association) Atom Girls Team Champions and Tyke Boys Team Champions. In October of 2023, he started coaching with the LSC Pre-Competitive Program via one of the Little Lakers 2 groups.

Liam Eagles-Turner


Email:liam@lakeshoreswimclub.com

After playing soccer and basketball for 3 years, Liam moved his focus to swimming at the age of 12, swimming for Lakeshore for 7 years working from the Fundamentals program to the Lakeshore Performance group. He also swam for his high school team, where he achieved 3 gold medals for his school at the city championship. Liam joined Lakeshore’s coaching team in 2022, working with the pre-competitive program. Liam’s goal is to share his love for the sport and instill passion for achieving success in all swimmers.