SDS Coach Rod Montrie was featured in the article How to Win a High School State Meet in the April 2008 edition of Swimming World Magazine. The article focuses on what four successful high school coaches do to prepare their teams for the high school championship meet. The Madeira School team under the tutelage of Coach Rod has been the girls state champions for the Virginia Independents High Schools (VIHS) from 2001-2003 and again in 2005-2006. Coach Rod has been the VIHS coach of the year four times. When asked if there is anything special he does before the state meet, Coach Rod replied “At the end of the season, I like to whip them up into a frenzy. At the state meet, we burn the barn down.” Read the complete article in Swimming World Magazine (April 2008, Volume 49, NO 4, pg 44-45),