Coach Luke Johnson is headed into his 5th season with Blake.  He started competitive swimming at age 7.  Luke has swimming experience in club, Elk River high school, St. John's University, masters swimming (3x National Champion in the 1650 Free), and is an Ironman.  Luke started coaching in 2002 as the St Cloud Apollo HS Head Coach, and has coached a few clubs and a couple other high schools since.  Coaching is his passion and is happy to be at the pool every day!

Luke believes swimming should be about having fun, striving for personal improvement, and achieving team success.  The priorities he has set for the team in order is: self, family, school, team, social.  

It will always be our goal to improve from the prior years' team results.  Swimming is an amazing sport because of the cross between individual results and team success.

Luke was awarded Section 2A Coach of the Year for 2021.