Our Coaches

Head Coach, Founder

Harold Baker founded the Williamsburg Aquatic Club in 1979 and has coached it ever since. The 2026–27 season will be his 55th year in coaching.

He started swimming in 1966 with the Jefferson City Scorpions. After his family moved to Newport News in 1968, he swam for the Village Green Patriots (a team he would later coach) and for the VPSU AAU year-round club. His mother started the VPSU summer league in 1969. In 1974 he joined the William & Mary swim team, where he swam all four years and earned his letter.

In 1979, the retiring coach talked him into coaching the Kingswood Klams. By the end of that summer, a group of parents had asked him to start a year-round club, and that fall WAC was born. He has coached WAC and the Klams ever since, and in 1992 he took over the Lafayette High School team as well.

Williamsburg Aquatic Club

• Three swimmers named to the USA Swimming National Team; two competed at the World Championships. Katie Hoff went on to the Olympics and broke world records.
• 135 swimmers sent on to college swimming since 1990, when WAC began training at the Rec Center
• More than 50 individual state champions
• Ranked among the top 100 age-group teams in the country several times
• USA Swimming Bronze Medal for senior teams
• Several Virginia Swimming team state championships for medium-size clubs

Lafayette High School

• 9 state championship teams and 14 second-place finishes
• 500th win in February 2026

Kingswood Klams

• 25 VPSU league championships since 1994, across the regular season, the championship meet, or both

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