Mission Viejo Nadadores Closing 360 Performance Center, Jeff Julian Shifting On From Program

The Mission Viejo Nadadores are closing their 360 Performance Center, the membership’s post-grad/professional group, head coach Jeff Julian introduced on Thursday.

Julian mentioned as a part of the choice to remove the professional group, his time with the group has come to an finish.

“I cannot express enough what an honor it was to work with the incredible athletes who trusted us with their goals and their careers,” Julian wrote on Instagram. “The opportunity to be part of their journeys, to share in the breakthroughs, challenges, big moments, and everyday work, will forever mean a great deal to me. I am incredibly proud of what we built together and grateful for everyone who was part of it.”

In January 2022, it was introduced that Julian could be leaving his publish as the pinnacle coach of the Rose Bowl Swim Team to go up the brand new professional group at Mission Viejo.

Originally, the group, which educated out of the identical pool because the membership, the Marguerite Aquatic Center, featured four-time World Championship medalist Justin Ress, two-time World Championship medalist Trenton Julian, together with World Championship open water swimmer David Heron and former WSU Cougar Taylor McCoy.

Ress gained gold within the males’s 50 backstroke and 4×100 freestyle relay on the 2022 World Championships after becoming a member of the Mission Viejo group earlier that yr, and went on to medal in the identical two occasions (silver in 50 again, bronze in 4×100 free relay) on the 2023 Worlds the next summer time.

Most just lately, Isabelle Odgers and Brazilian Nathalia Almeida represented Mission Viejo on the U.S. National Championships in Irvine, with Odgers posting the membership’s prime end with a Twenty eighth-place displaying within the ladies’s 200 breaststroke.

The professional group additionally included Bahamian Emmanuel Gadson, Antigua and Baruda native Stefano Mitchell, Puerto Rican Yeziel Morales, Mexican Jean Paul Ramis and Youngstown State swimmer Joey Chang.

Gadson competed on the Commonwealth Games this previous summer time, whereas Mitchell and Morales have been each in motion on the Central American and Caribbean Games.

Canadian Olympic gold medalist Penny Oleksiak additionally moved to Mission Viejo to coach beneath Julian in 2023, having represented the membership by May 2025. American Sean Grieshop and Philippines’ Kayla Sanchez are two different notable names which have hung out with the 360 Performance Center group.

SwimSwam has reached out to the Mission Viejo Nadadores for the reasoning behind the choice.