Tim Sheeper embodies the multi-sport lifestyle.

For over 20 years he has coached athletes of all ages. He has and is currently coaching the beginner, intermediate and elite level athlete. In that time he has led more than 4,000 athletes through more than 20,000 training sessions, and has become one of the most prolific triathlon coaches the country.

Tim has been competing in triathlons for 25 years and has been racing in running competitions since the age of 8. While Tim has competed at the age group level, he has competed at the Pro Triathlete level since the late 80's and has no plans of stopping.

Tim is passionate about the community of multi-sport athletes that he founded and nurtured in the mid 1990's, which is now called Team Sheeper.

Team Sheeper continues to evolve as a community and develop as a team. Team Sheeper consists of seven teams including a triathlon teams for Mom's, Kid's, Recreational, Open and Elite Athletes. There is also a women's running team and one of the country's top Masters Swimming Teams, Menlo Masters.

Tim's mission in life is to encourage and motivate people to live a life full of activity so as to strengthen the body and steel the mind. During the process is when the discovering that one is capable of doing much more in life than once thought possible.

Tim lives by the adage, Know the Way, Show the Way, Go the Way.

Mike Ingardia has been a competitive swimmer since 1978. He still proudly holds several high school records, one Tufts University pool record in the mile, and several New England Masters swimming records.

Mike has been coaching swimming since 1997, mostly individual and smaller group practices. "It's very rewarding to help someone improve in the pool, " he says. "I love working with swimmers and getting them to achieve more than what they originally thought possible."

Outside of the pool, Mike has been a competitive runner and triathlete since 1992, when he jump-started his running career by running the Boston Marathon on six weeks of training. "Not highly recommended," Mike notes. He ran several marathons over the next couple years until a friend suggested he try triathlons. So, without a wetsuit and riding a borrowed bike, he did his first two triathlons in 1994, winning his age group in the second race. "I was hooked from there," he says, and he has been racing triathlons ever since, amassing 10 overall career victories and numerous age group wins. Mike has completed eight Ironman distance triathlons, placing as high as 17th overall at the 1998 Great Floridian. He held the swim record at that event for two years and was the overall swim winner at Ironman Lanzarotte in 1998.

Rick Peterson has helped coach the Menlo Masters swim team almost since its organization in 1988. He has been an active Masters swimmer and cyclist since 1976, a runner since 1974, and a triathlete since 1982.

Rick has also coached the Leukemia Society's Team in Training triathlon and run programs since the late 1990s.