Mohammad Khadembashi

Coach Mohammad Khadembashi with Ivan Puskovitch after winning the 5 km title at the 2025 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Sarasota, Florida on 6 April 2025

Mohammad Khadembashi ("Coach Mo") is the head coach of TSM Aquatics.

Coaching Highlights

He coached Ivan Puskovitch to the 5 km title at the 2025 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships.
He coached Ivan Puskovitch to 19th place at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games 10 km marathon swim.
He started his coaching career at the Santa Monica YMCA in 2007.
He was promoted to Head Coach of the YMCA Team in 2011.
He joined TSM Aquatics as Assistant Coach in 2015.
He was promoted to Head Coach in 2019.
He is an ASCA (Level 5), USMS, and a certified USA Swimming coach.
He has coached TSM swimmers to Junior National, National, Olympic Trials, and World Junior levels and has led the club to a Silver Medal status within USA Swimming.
He was named Head Coach of Southern California Swimming for the Western Zone Age Group Championships in 2017 and 2018, where team SoCal won its first Zone Championships in a decade.
He has coached TSM swimmers at the 2016 Olympic Trials, Senior and Junior National, World Juniors, and World Championships.
He has been named to the USA National Team Coaches list for 2019-2020 and 2023-2024.
He was appointed Team USA Head Coach for the 2019 FINA World Cup in Hungary.
He was Coach to the Venezuelan National Junior Team for the 2019 FINA World Junior Championships.