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 begin her fourth year as assistant coach at Fairview. Prior to moving to Colorado in 2017, she was the head coach at Ramstein Air Force Base and Spangdahlem Air Force Base while she and her husband were stationed in Germany for 9 years.

She grew up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, swimming summer league since the age of seven. Karina led her high school team to victory four years in a row at the Washington, DC Metro Championships, and was the individual champion in the 50 free. 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 in 1991.

Karina started to compete again with Masters swimming after moving to Colorado. At her second meet she met the enthusiastic coach Stacey. In 2019, she attended the short course and long course Masters National meets. It was at the summer meet where she was able to crack into the FINA World Top Ten Rankings and set a new Colorado State record in the 50 meter fly. In addition to coaching, Karina enjoys her job as an Occupational Therapist, doing crafts and spending time outdoors with her family.