Shelly grew up in Seattle and swam for Cascade Swim Club and the University of Washington Huskies .  She is married to Dan (a Husky Swimmer also) and has four children who all competed for the HRVST through the years - Justine, Brett, Jacob and Mariah.

Shelly has 10 years swimming experience and 32 years swim coaching experience in a variety of settings.  She came to the HRVST in 1996 and has been head coach since spring 2000. In that time she has coached swimmers at all State, Regional and National levels, including coaching Scott Bergstrom (200 fly) at the Olympic Trials in 2012.  She started assisting Oregon Swimming by participating on the Board of Review and by helping to coach the All Star and Zone teams.   She was the Oregon Swim Coaches Association Chair from 2011 to 2014, the Senior Vice Chair for Oregon Swimming 2016-2017 , OSI General Chair 2018-2021, and is currently serving on the OSI board as Senior Vice Chair.  She also is currently the Chair of USA Swimming's LSC Development Committee. In 2009 Shelly was awarded the USA Swimming ConocoPhillips Outstanding Service Award for Oregon, and the Oregon Swimming Coaching Excellence Award. At Convention in 2017 she was awarded the Kerry O'Brien Masters Coaching Award.  In 2021, the James J Richardson Award was presented to her (along with Rhonda Soule) by Oregon Swimming.  And in high school swimming she was recognized as the Oregon Boys High School Coach of the year & the Sectional Boys HS Swimming Coach of the Year by the NHSF in 2021-2022. 

 Swimming is different to many local youth sports since our coaches are professional coaches on a salary.  We take pride in the fact that our team provides funding for continuing education for all our coaches to keep them up to date on current coaching practices.  

Growing up in southern California, Mary Jane (MJ) Caswell enjoyed swimming competitively both as an age group participant and at the high school level.

While competing for the University of California at Irvine, MJ had the opportunity to teach swimming to all age group levels in addition to conducting introductory classes in competitive swimming.

Currently MJ and her husband Michael, enjoy training and competing for the Columbia Gorge Masters Swim Team. MJ especially enjoys the camaraderie and support of  both the Masters’ group and the local aquatic community.  Her favorite events are the 200 and 500 freestyle and the 100 butterfly, which were the shortest events she swam in college.  Mj started coaching for the HRVST in 2006, where she enjoys working with the kids (and masters swimmers) and passing on her knowledge of the sport.  Oregon Masters Swimming has honored MJ with the 2017 Hazel Bressie Spirit Award, and in 2019 with the Ol' Barn Award.