Coach Aronberg is in his sixth year with the STAR program.  2008-2009 was a tremendous year for Coach Rick and the STAR program.  STAR dominated everywhere again as a top USA team in many different areas.  STAR won the Long Course team championship back in March!  We also sent 20 swimmers to the USA Speedo championships and placed 6th and 9th overall in Maryland and Buffalo respectively..  STAR also sent 8 swimmers to the Junior Nationals in Orlando, Florida, placing 32nd overall in March and 3 swimmers in August to Seattle fir the Jr. Nationals.  He also had a swimmer make the finals of the World Championship Trials last year. 

Aronberg came from Rochester, NY where he started the Greater Rochester Racing Raiders back in the summer of 1996. With 14 swimmers and a dream, the GRRR swim team rose steadily in the ranks to one of the best teams in the country.  Under Coach Aronberg, GRRR  produced TOP 10 swimmers in the Niagara District as well as nationally ranked athletes each year. At the end of 2003, one of Coach Aronberg’s swimmers, Jon Roberts, finished number one in the World in the 100 breast for all 15-16 year old swimmers.  Coach Aronberg had two swimmers final at the 2004 Senior National Championships, one swimming fast enough to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Trials.
 
In the summer of 2001, Aronberg was the assistant coach for the USA National Swim team that competed in Israel. Among the athletes he coached was three-time Olympic champion Lenny Krayzelburg in addition to 15 other national swimmers.  In the summer of 1999, Aronberg was the head coach for the United States Team that competed in Mexico City at the Pan American Maccabi Games. His swimmers brought back 92 medals, including 42 gold, in four days of competition, outdistancing second-place Mexico by 40 medals.
 
A native of Fairport, Aronberg is well known in the Western New York. Rick was a seven-time high school All-American at Fairport. He went on to become a four-time Division I All-American at Clemson University in the 500- and 1,650-yard freestyles. He was a six-time Atlantic Coast Conference champion and still holds Clemson records in the 500-, 1,000-, and 1,650-yard freestyles. He was named Clemson’s swimming MVP in each of his four seasons there. In 2002, Aronberg was inducted into the Clemson University Athletic Hall of Fame and was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary team as one of the best swimmers in conference history. He also was selected to Frontier Field's Walk of Fame.
 
A member of the Rochester Athletic Hall of Fame, Aronberg participated in the United States Olympic Trials in 1988 in the 200, 400, and 1500 freestyles and was chosen to compete with the United States team in the Maccabiah Games in Israel in 1985 and 1989. He won 11 medals, including 9 gold, and was named the captain of the United States men’s team in 1989. He was also ranked first in the world that year in the 400-meter free.