Lauren�s swim career has come full circle she began swimming on a club team named the Tsunamis (coached by Ira Kline) and now she is the coach of the Waves. She swam for Famingdale High School. Her collegiate career was from 1989-1993 at SUNY Cortland where she specialized in distance freestyle events and butterfly. She received a degree in exercise physiology from Cortland and a nursing degree from SUNY Plattsburgh. She is currently an instructor at SUNY Plattsburgh and is studying for a Master�s degree from SUNY Stony Brook to become a nurse practitioner.
Lauren has coached the Farmingdale Swim Club, she was the assistant coach at SUNY Plattsburgh from 1996-1998 and since 2002 has been the head coach at Peru Central High School.
Maria Cadieux started swimming competively at age 11 with the Bay Club Waves which later became the Lake Champlain Waves. Maria specialized in the IM, freestyle, and butterfly events. She has been teaching swim lessons and lifeguarding for 13 years and is currently an accounting major at SUNY Plattsburgh.