As a child I was an avid swimmer, contributing to my neighborhood swim team for 6 years before high school. In high school I played water polo,softball, and basketball, and learned to love working with kids as an assistant coach in various sports camps and summer clubs.
I started teaching swim lessons in 1999 at a swim school in west Houston. After moving, I was hired as an instructor for another swim school in the central Houston area, inside the loop. I was quickly promoted to lead instructor and then manager. After 3 years at that swim school I was asked to be the Aquatics Director for Sea Star Swimschool in Missouri City (a suburb of Houston.) I stayed there from 2005 through 2008 and was in charge of a 1,500 student per week swimming program. I was awarded the Outstanding Teacher of the Year award for 2007, 2008 and 2010 from the United States Swim School Association (USSSA). My coaching skills have been developed through teaching swim lessons for the past 12 years and with 2 years of experience as a coach for the Basketball and Water Polo teams for my former high school, St. Agnes Academy in Houston and 3 additional years of basketball coaching in Austin.
I relocated to the Austin area at the end of 2008 with my husband and have developed a swim program here for swimmers of all levels. Most recently, I have spent the past 3 winters as a high school and middle school basketball coach for the St. Stephen's Spartans; I also assisted the Ian Crocker Swim School during the 2009 summer, teaching all of their learn-to-swim and stroke introductory lessons while also running the first season of TKO Swim lessons.
In my personal life, I got married at the end of May 2010 in Jamaica. My husband and I live in Northwest Austin, near the Arboretum. We have a dog who I adore, I enjoy reading, spending time outdoors, watching sports and swimming. I love children for their innocence, eagerness to learn and their great senses of humor. (They all laugh at my jokes!) Hopefully I will have children of my own one day soon.
