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.
A former swimmer for the Plattsburgh Piranhas and then Bay Club Waves, Anne has been either swimming or coaching for the last 29 years. After swimming for the PHS Hornets in high school, she went on to swim for the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. While living in Maryland she coached for Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club in Rockville, Maryland for three years and for various summer teams in Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties.
Anne is returning to the Plattsburgh area after 15 years and is eager to coach where her swimming career began. Anne lives in Morrisonville with her husband Kevin and their two sons, Connor and Braeden.
Hobie moved to Plattsburgh in October 2006 after spending two years in Montreal. He is originally from Seattle and has coached age group and high school swim teams in the Seattle area for over ten years. Hobie started swimming at the age of five in Newport Beach, California. He helped lead Roosevelt High School to an undefeated record and four league championships during his four years there. He played water polo at the University of Washington while earning a degree in mechanical engineering. (And later a Masters degree in Business Administration) In 2007 he coached the Peru Central School modified swim team. Hobie lives in Plattsburgh and works for Graymont Materials at the Plattsburgh Quarry