WBLAHS Swim & Dive 

I started my swimming career in the 4th grade and never looked back. I began swimming competitively for OMNI Swim Club, before transferring to STAR Swim Club. I also swan for my middle school team at MMSA. At Hill-Murray High School, I swam 7th-12th grade becoming an assistant captain my senior year. I knew I wanted to take my swimming career as far as I could, so I swam 4 years at St. Francis College, a Division 1 school in the NEC Conference. 

 

Following a successful and rewarding career, I decided to begin my coaching journey. That chapter of my life started with the Rochester Swim Club, coaching young swimmers for roughly 2 years. When I moved back to the Twin Cities in 2019, I became an assistant coach for the Woodbury High School Girls team. 

 

In 2021, I became the head coach for the White Bear Lake Area High School Girls Swim & Dive team. I'm very proud to be a part of this organization and I'm excited to see where the future takes us. 

My interest in swimming started when I hung around the Blaine swim team coached by my dad in the 1980s. I started swimming competitively in 7th grade at Coon Rapids Junior High. I swam for four years at Coon Rapids High School and graduated in 1997. I attended Winona State University and received a degree in Geoscience - Water Resources Management.

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While at WSU, I volunteered for two seasons at Winona High School. After I graduated, I was the Assistant Coach for the Andover Boys swim team, the Assistant Coach for the Fridley Boys swim team, the Assistant Coach for the Columbia Heights boys swim team, and the Assistant Coach for the Anoka Boys swim team.

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I have been the Head Coach for the White Bear Lake Boys Swim and Dive Team since 2010. I was the head coach for the White Bear Lake Girls Swim and Dive Team from 2013-2019. After a year away, I was hired to be the Assistant Coach.

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I live in Saint Paul with my wife Rachel and daughter Ella and I work as an aboveground and underground storage tank inspector for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

I have been coaching in Minnesota for the past 29 years at multiple schools around the Twin Cities.  Currently, I am the diving coach for the girls and boys team for White Bear Lake. 

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I am the co-founder of the WB Diving Club, which has called the White Bear YMCA home for the past 9years.  I live in the Mahtomedi area with my wonderful husband, Doug, I have two grown children and 5 other grown children we helped raise over the years. I come to diving with a lot of experience, being a diver myself since the age of 10. I am also a diving official for the Minnesota State High School League. 

I cannot wait to work with the White Bear dive teams this season and hope to give them the wisdom and knowledge that I have learned over the years and help them learn the skills of diving in a safe environment and have fun doing it. Email Coach Annette with any questions regarding diving.

I have been a swimmer ever since I was a kid. Growing up my family spent every summer up north on a lake and I was always in the water. I began club swimming for many years before joining my high school team in 7th grade. I swam for the Owatonna Swim and Dive team all through high school, and was a captain both junior and senior year. My favorite events to swim were long-distance, and the 500 became my main event from 8th-12th grade. 

 

For the past seven years I have been a swim instructor, working with infants all the way up to adult swim classes. I started working at my community Parks and Rec Center, and have worked with other organizations including RedCross, Lifetime Fitness, and FOSS. My first assistant coaching position was for the Forest Lake Girls Swim and Dive team in 2022. 

 

I am currently in my fifth year of college at the University of Northwestern St. Paul, pursuing a degree in Health and Physical Education, with two minors in Coaching and Biblical Studies. Swimming has always been a passion of mine, and I love watching the hard work of my swimmers pay off. I look forward to working with the team!