Crystal Keelan, Team USA head coach for the FINA Junior World Championship, stands on the pool deck at Penn Charter, where she is a varsity swim coach.

Penn Charter's girls varsity swim coach, Crystal Keelan, will be one of two head coaches of Team USA at the Fédération Internationale de Natation World Junior Championships in Budapest, Hungary in August.

Keelan will coach the women's junior swimmers from Team USA going to the world championships, with Billy Doughty of Davis Swimming coaching the men’s group.

As a varsity coach at PC, “Coach Crystal" designs much of the programming, and under her new practice programs, the girls’ team has won Inter-Ac Championships and been the Eastern Champions for the last two consecutive years.

In addition to PC’s varsity girls swim team, Keelan coaches the Penn Charter Aquatics Club. Since he was 11 years old, she coached Reece Whitley OPC '18, as he won 23 age-group records and multiple medals at national and international competitions. Whitley, an undergraduate at University of California at Berkeley, was recently named the freshman swimmer of the year by the Pacific-12 Conference for his standout season at Berkeley

Keelan was the head coach of Team USA at the Youth Olympic Games last fall, having previously served as an assistant coach of that team.