Olympus Aquatics

Thomas M. Thorum accepted the head swimming coach position with Olympus High school in 2013 and has been the head coach of the Olympus Aquatics (OA) club swim team since its inception that same year. In his first season at the helm, Tom led OA to a top 10 finish in the 2014 Utah Long Course State Championships. In 2018 and 2019, OA finished 1st at the Utah Short Course Age Group State Championships. He successfully grew the team from zero swimmers in August 2013 to more than 180 today. Tom brings over 40 years of competitive swimming experience from multiple levels to OA. He began swimming competitively at age 5 in Salt Lake City at the Fort Douglas Country Club under his father Thomas Thorum, Sr. Tom swam for the Salt Lake Tsunami Swim Team from 1982-1988, for East High School from 1986-1990, and for the University of Utah from 1990-1994. Tom was Team Captain at East High in 1990, where he received the Eric Hoff award, and Team Captain at the University of Utah in 1994. From 1989-1997, he was also an Assistant Coach for the Fort Douglas Summer League team. During this time, the Fort's swim team went undefeated and produced several collegiate swimmers including two Olympic Trial qualifiers and one World Championship qualifier. In 1995, he was an Assistant Coach at the University of Utah and in 1998 he coached at the Salt Lake Tennis Club. This was the first season in over 16 years that the Club’s swim team went undefeated and won the Conference Championship. Tom continued swimming competitively at the Masters level and attended multiple Masters National Championship meets including the US Masters Swimming Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2000, where he set the Utah State Masters record in the 100-yard backstroke, Santa Clara, California in 2001, and Honolulu, Hawaii in 2002. As a triathlete, Tom completed five Ironman events in New Zealand, Canada, Hawaii, Brazil, and qualified for the Ironman World Championships in 2004 and 2006. In 2006, he recorded the third fastest Ironman swim in history. In 2009, he was recruited back to the Salt Lake Tennis Club as Director of Aquatics and led the swim team to Conference Championships in 2009 and 2011. Tom is currently an ASCA Level 2 coach responsible for the OA 13-14 Silver Team and Senior Teams. In 2015, he was selected as the Utah Age Group Zone Team head coach, which competed in Hawaii at the Western Zone Age Group Championships in August. In 2017, Tom was awarded Utah Swimming Age Group Coach of the year. Tom is a 1995 graduate of the University of Utah, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree and a 1998 graduate of the University of Utah Graduate School of Architecture, where he earned his Master of Architecture degree.

Born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Zofi swam her first two years in college at the University of California, Fresno where she broke seven of the school records and won the 200fly at the mountain west conference championship. She went on to swim in Poland for their National team for a year before transferring to the University of Utah to finish her swimming career and earn a degree in kinesiology and nutrition. Zofi has always had a passion for swimming and seeing kids find their passion for swimming is what she strives to do.

Dusty was born in Salt Lake and grew up in Park City. He swam on the Park City High School Swim Team as well as the Park City Swimming club team. In club swimming Dusty was 2nd place high point at age group state for 13-14 boys. He set multiple school records on the High School team and currently holds the boys 50 Free 3A State Record. His goal was always to swim at the collegiate level and ideally in the PAC-12 so when Utah joined the conference the opportunity presented itself. Swimming one year with the University of Utah, Dusty made it to Conference his freshman year and swam in finals. He has always had a passion for swimming and what the sport can teach about physical as well as mental well being. Dusty has coached with Park City swimming for two and half years, with Swim Utah for a year and in 2023 he joined Olympus Aquatics where he currently coaches the 11-12 Alphas and Betas.

Diego was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico but raised in Mason, Ohio. He swam for the Mason Manta Rays, a USA Swimming Gold Medal Club, for 12 years before attending the University of Utah. He also swam for William Mason high school varsity team for 4 years. He currently swims for the University of Utah club team. He has previously coached for the Miami Hills Swim & Tennis Club in Milford, Ohio and for Cottonwood Country Club. Diego is pursuing a major in Computer Science with an emphasis on Entertainment Arts Engineering. He is a 3-time Ohio high school swim district qualifier and attended the College Club Nationals in Columbus, Ohio. Diego joined Olympus Aquatics in 2023 and currently coaches the 10-under Gamma group.