I began teaching swim lessons at the age of 12. My father overheard a bunch of parents talking about how their children needed to learn to swim and he set me up…I think they each paid me five dollars per set of four lessons! (Don’t get excited, I charge more now!)

I coached my first swim team while I was still in high school. I went on to coach several elementary schools and high schools while I was in college (it was pretty hilarious. The kind of thing where I had half the team piled in my car just to get them to swim meets). After college, I began coaching at the National Level and learned a lot.

I have since coached and instructed swimming throughout my life wherever I’ve lived…California, Connecticut, Oregon, Brooklyn, South Africa, Namibia, Baltimore, …

My goal for anyone that I teach is to foster this same love of swimming. Swimming is a lifelong skill that can take many forms from fun and fitness to competitive racing. All of this should be by what drives you. My motto is, as always, “If you’re not having fun, I’m not doing my job.” Swimming is a beautiful, fun, inspiring thing. My goal is for those I teach to leave the pool hungry for more……or at least satisfied with what they got!