Grady Hough
This is Coach Grady Hough's 5th year coaching the Advanced Age Group and Mini-Fish. He is a Registered Nurse working at Inova Fairfax Hospital on the adult general medicine floor.
Coach Grady Hough was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Graphic Design. Go Vols! He spent nearly a decade in television and radio production shooting TV commercials featuring sports stars Tony Dorsett, Jim Kelly, Troy Aikman, Grant Hill and others.
Grady then spent a couple of years working with special needs kindergarten and pre-school children before returning to Nursing School at Northern VA Community College. He currently works as a registered nurse on an Adult Medical/Surgical unit which services internal medicine and infectious diseases.
Coach Grady started competitive swimming when he was 6 and swam for the Knoxville Swimming Association which later became Pilot Aquatic Club. He swam through his high school years and coached summer league and high school teams while in college. He continues to train and compete in area triathlons and open water races. He will be racing in the Great Chesapeake Bay swim this summer.
Grady hopes that while in Advanced Age Group his swimmers will begin to understand the concepts of self-discipline, self-motivation and self-respect.
