Coaches

Franny Bentley - Head Coach

Franny enters her 18th year as a coach for Fairview Girls Swimming. In addition to coaching, she is an Instructor for the Continuing Education and Integrative Physiology Departments at CU Boulder. Franny grew up in Southern California where she swam varsity for Southern California CIF Division I Champion Irvine High School. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002 with a B.S. in Physiology and a minor in Athletic Coaching with an emphasis in swimming. She started coaching in 2001-2003 at Dos Pueblos High School in Santa Barbara and then spent a year at the University of Indiana studying in the Kinesiology Department and completing research for the Councilman Center for the Science of Swimming. Franny completed her Master’s degree in Integrative Physiology at CU-Boulder in 2006. Franny is incredibly proud of her Fairview Knight student-athletes. They work hard to balance being a student and a swimmer/diver, every year welcoming all of our new athletes to the fun and hard-work of the team and making everyone feel included and cared for.

Stacey W. Tobey - Head Coach

Stacey Weidauer Tobey brings to Fairview a lifelong passion of swimming and coaching at the NCAA Division 1 level, Masters, age group, high school and open water swimming. She began competing at age seven, was high school Team Captain her junior and senior years and broke ten of her high school records, as well as winning a State Title in the 100 fly. Stacey was a full scholarship athlete at the University of Utah and a Conference Championship finalist. After her college career, she coached at the University of Utah for nine years as an assistant coach for the Men’s & Women’s swim teams. Stacey and her family moved to Denver in 2000 where she was the University of Denver’s first full time assistant coach until 2011. She was the primary coach of the University of Denver’s first ever NCAA Division 1 qualifier in 2002 and helped lead the DU Pioneers to their first ever Pacific Collegiate Conference Championship the same year. In her personal swimming career in 2010, Stacey successfully swam the English Channel with a relay braving temperatures of 50.2 degrees without a wetsuit. She also completed relays across Lake Tahoe, the Manhattan Island marathon and a two person relay around Key West. Just recently, she completed a solo 12.5 mile swim around Key West and was the third place woman overall. With over 33 years of coaching and 42 years of swimming, Stacey’s life skills have transferred to results for her swimmers. She balances being a wife, mom of 3 children, competitor, coach and mentor. Her passion will instill you with possibilities. The 2023-2024 season will be Stacey's 13th year with Fairview, and she is also the Head Master's Coach with Elevation Athletics and runs her own Stroke Technique business.

Karina Plocek - Assistant Swim Coach

Karina is excited to start her sixth year coaching for Fairview and being part of a great swim program. Karina has been coaching swimming for over 16 years. Prior to moving to Colorado in 2017, she was the head swim coach at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany. She grew up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., swimming summer league since the age of seven. She went on to swim as a scholarship athlete at Miami University, becoming the Conference Scholar-Athlete of the year and earning Academic All-American honors her senior year. Since moving to Colorado, Karina has returned to competing as a Masters swimmer and has won ten individual US Masters swimming national titles. She believes in swimming and coaching with intention, emphasizing quality over quantity in her workouts. Outside of the pool, Karina enjoys her work as an occupational therapist, and hiking with her family.

Kristin Minzenmayer - Volunteer Assistant Swim Coach

Kristin is excited to join as a volunteer coach this season. She started swimming at age seven and set team and pool records as a summer league swimmer. After joining a year-round team, she became a Top 16 swimmer and won multiple Texas Age Group titles before focusing on volleyball for the rest of her high school career. She coached summer league teams through high school and ran a waterfront program at a summer camp before finding her way back to the pool through open-water swimming in 2019 and Masters swimming in 2020. Outside of the pool, she works leading a UX Research team for a tech company and plays indoor and sand volleyball.