Our Leadership
Paris Jacobs
Paris Jacobs serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Machine Brands, LLC, overseeing all business operations of all five divisions within Machine. Formally a competitive swim coach for the team, in 2007 she retired from coaching and move to operations full-time. After a long volunteer career within USA Swimming and USA Swimming Foundation, Paris served as a business development consultant for The American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) from 2015-2017 and in September 2018 accepted the newly created position as the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the American Swim Coaches Association. During her time at the American Swim Coaches Association, she also severed as Business Development Consultant and Event Operations Manager for International Swimming League (ISL) overseeing the USA operations and 4 major events for the first Pro Swimming Team Series in history, culminating with the World Championships at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV in 2019. In 2021, Paris resigned from ASCA to return to full-time Management of Machine Brands
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Paris grew up recreationally swimming for Dynamo Swim Club and the local summer league. She began her coaching career in Atlanta at her summer league pool as an assistant coach. She moved to the Northern Virginia area in 1993 attending boarding school. She attended George Mason University studying Business.
Since its inception in 2001, Machine Aquatics has grown into Machine Brands which encompasses four divisions. Machine Aquatics, a nationally ranked USA Swimming competitive team with eleven training sites and 1700+ members, Machine Swim School, a large swim school providing 800+ lessons weekly, Machine Performance Center, a 20,000 +sq ft. performance center for swim, fitness, community events and physical therapy.
Paris is a mother to two amazing children, Lillyan, a Junior at the University of South Carolina, majoring in Sports Medicine and Daniel, III a Freshman at Salisbury University where he is a Lacrosse player.
Contact Paris at paris@machineaquatics.com
Dan Jacobs
Dan started swimming when he was 4 years old for his neighborhood team, the Marlbank Mudtoads in Yorktown, VA. He swam AAU/USS for Coast Guard Blue Dolphins in Yorktown, VA until the age of fourteen when he moved to Northern Virginia. Dan then swam for Solotar, Oakton High School, and The Vienna Aquatic Club (VAC) GATORS. He started coaching in 1985 as a developmental assistant at VAC and assistant coached there until he graduated from Oakton in 1986.
Dan attended College at Old Dominion University where he graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He also swam Division 1 for ODU. That is where he had the honor to be coached on occasion by ASCA Hall of Fame coach Bill Peak. He was very inspired by him and his coaching philosophy.
During the summers Dan coached at Dunn Loring for three years before accepting the head coach position at Vienna Aquatic Club. Upon graduation from ODU he worked in the graphic design field for approximately 10 years, all along continuing to coach for VAC in the summer and coach USS for York Swim Club.
Dan started Machine Aquatics in 2001 with Christian Doud and Paris Jacobs, and strives to be the best coach on the planet. He believes he will never stop learning to be a better coach. He is married to his best friend and partner Paris Jacobs. They have two beautiful children, Lilly and Daniel.
Contact Dan at dan@machineaquatics.com
Nancy Monaghan
As a child, Nancy began what would become a life-long love for the sport of swimming. She swam for her local summer swim team, USS Club teams, and her high school swim team. As an adult, she has continued with the sport in many fashions. Before having children, she coached summer swimming and taught swim lessons at the local pool.
As a mother of six children she was a stay-at-home mom until her last child entered school. She ran an in-home daycare service at that time taking care of many neighborhood children. When her oldest showed interest in swimming she became involved again. Nancy started coaching summer swimming in 1997 and then moved into USS coaching in 2001. She has taught traditional lessons each summer while coaching.
In 2008, Nancy was introduced to a family that had lost their son to a back yard pool drowning, which is when I found out about the Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) program. Shortly after that she participated and succeeded in the intensive 6-week certification training and has been teaching that year round in the DC area since then.
Contact Nancy at nancy@machineperformancecenter.com