Coach John Turner

John Turner has been coaching professionally since 1969.  He has coached at all levels from the novice competitor to the ultimate in swimming – three Olympic Competitors.  Coach. Turner has been a head coach in five different states.  He spent two years in Clinton, Iowa; one year in Winona, Minnesota; four years in Medford, Wisconsin; two years in Yakima, Washington; and the past 33 years in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Coach Turner has coached ninety-five high school All Americans (counting relays as one); one hundred fifty-eight individual high school State Champions; six NAIA National Champions; eight NAIA All Americans; seventeen NCAA Division II All Americans; fourteen NCAA Division I qualifiers; six NCAA Division I All Americans;  two NCAA III All-Americans; six Olympic Trials qualifiers; three Junior National Champions; two Junior National record holders; one YMCA National Champion; four Pan American Games competitors; twelve South American Games competitors; and three Olympic swimmers.

Coach Turner has received High School Coach of the Year honors in three different states including thirteen of the years he has coached in Oklahoma.  Coach Turner won both the girls’ and boys’ Coach of the Year Awards for the 1989-90 season, the first and only time the same person has received both awards in Oklahoma.  They have since discontinued this award.  Coach Turner has had articles published in Swimming World, Swimming Technique, Coach and Athlete, and Scholastic Coach.  He was also consulted as a resource for the book, Swimming II, the international series on sport sciences and a resource for swimming technique.  He has coached Jenks High School teams to twenty-seven State Championships and twelve runner-up titles.  In the summer of 2001, Coach Turner was honored as National High School Swimming Coach of the Year by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association.  In 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and again in 2011 Coach Turner was awarded the NISCA “Excellence in Coaching Award.”  In May of 2007, Coach Turner was Named National High School Athletic Coaches Association, “National High School Boys Coach of the Year.”

Mr. Turner has a lovely wife, Carol, who is a dance and drill instructor.  Mrs. Turner owns and operates the Dancing Darlings, Dynamic Dancers, and Tulsa Dance Force. She has also choreographed and managed the Fastbreaker Cheerleaders, Oklahoma Outlaws Cheerleaders, and the Tulsa Talons Cheerleaders.  Mrs. Turner is currently marketing a drill team video she choreographed and produced, as well as a book for drill team advisors.  Mrs. Turner also works with Gordmans on style shows. The Turners have four children and three grandchildren.

Coach Barva Herzog

This Fall will be Barva’s sixth consecutive season with the JHS Swim Team.  She began coaching in 1980 with USA Swimming in Broken Arrow and coached for JTSC and Bartlesville before she retired in March 2001.  Barva has been a USA/USS Swimmer Certified Coach since 1980 and maintains all certifications.  She is a member of ASCA and is a Level Four Certified Coach.  She also holds State High School Certification in Care and Prevention of Athletic Injury.  She has coached with Coach Turner for 17 years.  Her specialty is stroke mechanics and will be available for one-on-one instruction; just   contact Coach Barva (691-7888) to set up a time.

Barva is married to Jerry Herzog and they reside at their home on Lake Tenkiller in   Cookson, OK.  They have two children, Kristin and Jason, both of whom were swimmers.  They have four grandchildren, two in Broken Arrow and two in Indiana (where their daughter and son-in-law reside). 

Both Barva and Jerry are avid fishermen – Jerry does the Bass thing, while Barva enjoys bait fishing for pan type fish.  They also travel a lot!

I am thrilled to be coming back to JHS Swimming for my sixth season, and I’m looking forward to working with all the swimmers and their parents!!!

Coach Barva                                       

Coach Diane Miller

This fall marks my 3rd year coaching with the JHS swim team.  I enjoyed high school swimming in Colorado and then participated in swimming my freshman year at Purdue University, graduating in 1980 with a degree in marketing.  After graduation, I took a job with IBM and worked for them 11 years in Indpls,, Indiana; Lima, Ohio; and Edinburgh, Scotland.  My overseas work in the UK was by far my favorite.  We were there four years while my husband Jim worked on his Doctorate at University of Edinburgh.

Swimming has always been part of my life and I taught swim lessions for much of my teenage and college years.  I taught Water Aerobics and Aqua Jogger for 5 years at the Health Zone through St. Francis Hospital and am a Certified Instructor.

I am married to Jim, Sr. Pastor of First Presbyterian Church.  Our oldest two children, David and Courtaney both swam on the JHS Swim team.  They graduated in 2008 and 2010.  Jonathan, a sophomore at JHS, is on the JHS tennis team.  We have lived in Tulsa since 1992.

In addition to swimming, I love to play tennis and a new hobby for me is cycling.  I have ridden 1,400 miles since last August, 2010!!  You may see me riding my bicycle on the bike path along the river as my transportation to arrive for coaching at the pool. After the State Swim meet in February, I switch over to coaching tennis for the JHS girls and boys tennis teams.

I look forward to a fun and successful year with Barva and John.