YOU MUST CONFIRM A SESSION, LOCATION, AND CLASS TIME BEFORE YOU REGISTER AND PAY
Ages 4 to adult
SESSION 1: June 21 - July 1
**FULL at Great Bridge & Mt Trashmore** / 1 spot open at Little Neck
SESSION 2: July 5 or 6 (depending on location) - July 15
**FULL at Great Bridge** / 2 spots open at Mt Trashmore, several openings at Little Neck
SESSION 3: July 19 - July 29
6 spots open at Mt Trashmore, several openings at Little Neck
SESSION 4: Aug 2 - Aug 12
(no Session 4 offered at Little Neck)
LOCATIONS / TIMES AVAILABLE FOR CLASSES
Before you register online:
Swim School equipment is available for purchase in the Tide Swimming shop HERE
You can also shop locally (and try on products!) at our Speedo Team Dealer, Aquawear
Swimmers new to the group must be evaluated BEFORE registering for the group
Email Coach Bridget to be evaluated
8 WEEK SESSION: REGISTER HERE
Introduction to Competitive Swimming (ICS) 1
Introduction to Competitive Swimming (ICS) 2
TIDE is very proud of its Swim School staff. Each instructor joins us with a unique ability to connect with children and a core knowledge of our sport. In addition to a background in competitive swimming, all Tide Swim School instructors go through a rigorous certification procedure that includes:
All instructors have passed a criminal background check and are coach members of USA Swimming.
All instructors have completed at least 15 hours of in-water training before teaching a class of their own.
We teach students the right way to swim from the very beginning while always adapting our methods to an individual's unique needs. We believe that this philosophy, coupled with the finest instructors, is what makes us the best choice for learning how to swim.
coachkatherine@tideswimming.com
Katherine grew up riding horses and swimming in southern California. In high school, after becoming the owner of a spirited Arabian gelding, she left daily swimming but worked as a swim instructor at the local swim complex and joined a new institution called masters swimming. She swam with the masters team in college, played club water polo, and rode her still very spirited horse in the beautiful national parks that surrounded the college. In the summers, she worked as the pool manager at the swim complex, teaching lessons as well as scheduling both lessons and major regional swim meets. After a brief time in the corporate world, Katherine returned to swimming by opening her own swim school and recreation-league swim team in the Boston area. She brought in world class athletes and coaches for clinics on a regular basis and many of her swimmers went on to have leadership roles on high school and college swim teams. A move to Virginia Beach in 2015 happily led her to Tide, where she became the lead novice coach and assisted in creating Tide's Swim School. She continues to swim with USMS where she has had 2 top ten relay swims, many top ten postal swims, and now enjoys easy, picturesque, open water lake swims! Coach Katherine is a Level 3 ASCA member coach and recently completed a Masters in Theology and Educational Ministry. Guiding students to find courage, discipline, and joy through the sport of swimming is Katherine's goal for our swim school.
Alex Arrieta
Coach Alex joined the Swim School staff in September 2020. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, he started competitive swimming at Metro Aquatic Club of Miami when he was 13 years old. Alex was co-captain for two years at Doral Academy Charter High School, and in 2016 he lead his team to the school's first ever state championship win. In 2016, Alex was recruited to swim at Eastern Michigan University, where we won the Mid American Conference Championship his freshman year and earned second his sophomore year. In 2019 EMU cut four sports programs including swimming, so he transferred to ODU where he is currently finishing his bachelor degrees in Accounting and Business Analytics. During the transfer, Alex spent time back home in Miami, assisting his high school team during their summer preseason. He now swims for Tide Masters and is excited to be working with the swim school. Alex loves to coach because "I enjoy learning more and more about the sport and using my knowledge to help others become better athletes."
Lyla Chandiramani
Coach Lyla joined the Swim School staff in September 2019. She began swimming when she was four years old and swam for the Virginia Beach Rec league until she reached middle school and joined TIDE. Lyla continued swimming with TIDE in high school, which helped her to be accepted as a member of her high school varsity swim team. Coach Lyla has continued her love for the sport in college. She is currently a sophomore at Old Dominion University and swims with the ODU club team. She also still swims for TIDE in the masters program. Lyla's event of choice is sprints and the 100 meter breaststroke. In her free time she rows with the ODU club rowing team and loves to volunteer at Operation Smile. Lyla's swimming experience is what inspires her to offer children the same opportunities that she had in the sport.
Dianne Cobb
Coach Dianne joined Tide Swim School as an instructor in May 2020. Dianne's father introduced her to swimming when she was very young at the family summer home in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York. Dianne continued swimming through high school, where she was chosen team captain for Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York. Dianne swam for and graduated from Dartmouth College. Her interest in teaching young children was piqued while living in Italy. Dianne continues to train and compete in swim meets as an adult. She is a member of Tide Masters, a USA Swimming certified official, a level 1 and 2 coach for US Masters Swimming, and a USA Swimming certified coach.
Bryn DePaul
Coach Bryn began her competitive swimming career at four years old. Since then, she has competed on several USA Swimming teams and was a senior swimmer on TIDE from 2015 to 2018. She has qualified and competed in the Virginia Senior Championship Meet multiple times. Bryn graduated from Hickory High School in 2018, exceeding a 4.0 GPA throughout all four years of school and ranking within the top 5% of her class. In high school, she was inducted into the National Honor Society, National English Honor Society, and was a member of the Friends of Rachel Anti-Bullying Initiative. Bryn is a junior studying in the International Honors Joint Degree Programme at the College of William and Mary and the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. She is majoring in Classical Studies, with a concentration in Ancient History and Archaeology. Bryn made the William and Mary Dean's List during her first year. She is back from University of St Andrews for the summer and will be returning to Scotland for the 2020-2021 academic year. Coach Bryn became a member of the Swim School staff in August 2017. She loves working with TIDE's young swimmers and sharing her passion for the sport!
Jennie Leigh DePaul
Coach Jennie began swimming competitively at age 6. During the course of her competitive journey, she obtained and still holds several records on USA Swimming teams. Jennie qualified for the Eastern Zone Competition many times and represented Virginia Swimming twice on the Virginia Zone Team. During her swimming career, Jennie placed 3rd and 4th in breaststroke and individual medley in Virginia, and as a fifteen-year-old placed 3rd, 9th, and 10th in breaststroke and individual medley at NASA Junior Nationals.
Academic achievement is also very important to Jennie. She holds the rare distinction of having achieved straight A's throughout all of Middle School, High School, and thus far in College, and was one of the first graduates of the Virtual Virginia full-time pilot program in High School. She is currently a student in the International Honors Joint Degree Programme between The College of William and Mary and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, majoring in Classical Studies with a concentration in Latin and Greek. Jennie joined Tide Swim School as an instructor in March 2017 after swimming for two years in Tide's senior groups and loves her job! She can't wait to teach more Swim School students how to swim!
Katherine Gill
Coach Katherine Gill joined the Tide Swim School staff during the winter of 2021. Katherine is a Virginia Beach native and former TIDE swimmer. She swam with TIDE starting in the novice program and progressing to age group swimming. Katherine continued her love for swimming with her summer league team and her school team in middle and high school. Katherine attended Norfolk Academy and participated in varsity volleyball, swimming, and was one of her team's rowing captains for two consecutive years. Katherine continued her education at James Madison University (JMU) studying interdisciplinary liberal studies with an elementary education minor. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science in May 2020 and immediately started graduate school at JMU to get her Masters of Arts in teaching. She is in her final semester of graduate school at JMU and is currently completing her student teaching in the Virginia Beach City Public Schools. Katherine's family has been involved with Tide Swimming for over 15 years and she attributes a lot of her growth to her TIDE family and coaches that always encouraged her to do her best in and out of the pool. Katherine is very excited to join the Tide Swim School community and work with her students every week on improving and growing in their swimming abilities.
Bridget Nguyen
Coach Bridget joined TIDE in the summer of 2016. Hailing from San Clemente, California, Bridget swam with her siblings on an age group team (SCAT). She swam throughout her high school and college (LMU) years. At Loyola Marymount University, she graduated with a BA in Elementary Education and an MA in Education Psychology. Bridget has been an elementary teacher for 24 years in California, Hawaii, and Virginia. She taught private and group swimming lessons during her college years and has coached TIDE's Age Group Bronze group. Bridget recently completed the Starfish Aquatics Institute's Children with Challenges course. Bridget and her husband Bao moved here from Kauai, Hawaii. Bao, a naval officer, serves as meet director for TIDE. The Nguyen children are TIDE swimmers, and Bridget and her family are enjoying living in Virginia and being a part of the TIDE family!
Maggie Pope
Coach Maggie joined the Swim School staff in January 2021. She began swimming when she was four years old and swam for the Seven Hills Barracudas summer swim team in her hometown of Nashville. Maggie started coaching for her summer swim team when she was fourteen. Her home club team was Excel Aquatics, where she competed both regionally and nationally, and earned the spot of team captain. Coach Maggie went on to swim for the University of Richmond, where she helped the team to four conference championships in her four years as a Spider. She also took multiple top three relay finishes and individual finishes in the 100 and 200 backstroke. After graduating, Coach Maggie was head coach of a summer league team back home where she coached the team to a divisional championship win for the first time in years. Coach Maggie is elated to be back in the swimming community after a few years off and happy to contribute to a sport and life skill as important as swimming.
Jason Rodriguez
Coach Jason joined TIDE swimming in January 2017. Beautiful Virginia Beach has been his home for the last eighteen years after graduating from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to coaching, Jason is also an active US Masters competitive swimmer for TIDE, where he primarily specializes in middle and long distance freestyle events, as well as long distance open-water races. When not swimming, he loves to surf and spend time out on the water.
Reilly Schindler
Coach Reilly joined TIDE in the spring of 2020. Reilly has lived in Hampton Roads her whole life and swam on a local club team for eight years until she graduated from Bishop Sullivan Catholic High. In addition to swimming she has been doing triathlons since 2014 and is currently a junior on the Queens University of Charlotte Triathlon team. Queens is her third college as she started her freshman year at Saint Mary's College of California on a rowing scholarship. She then transferred to the University of South Carolina and competed on their club triathlon team for the fall 2019 semester before transferring to Queens. Reilly's triathlon achievements include: qualifying for ITU worlds to represent team USA in 2019 and 2020; earning second place at USAT Nationals in the 16-19 age group in 2019. Reilly's rowing achievements include: earning first place in the 2k and 20 min lightweight division at the World Indoor Rowing Championships in 2017; earning first place in the 20 min lightweight division at the World Indoor Rowing Championships in 2018. Reilly also set the record for the 20 min lightweight erg that same year.
Lisa Slopey
Coach Lisa joined TIDE in January 2021 as a swim school instructor. She was born in Vicenza, Italy and swam competitively throughout high school in Mons, Belgium. Every summer Lisa attended Peter Trummer's swim camp in Mittersill, Austria for high-altitude pre-season training and placed #3 in Europe for the Department of Defense Schools System in the 100 meter breaststroke her junior year. Lisa recently moved to Norfolk from Los Angeles, California and she continues to work remotely for Ingenuity Studios, a visual effects studio with offices in LA, Manhattan, and Vancouver. Lisa lives with her sister and her adorable rescue dog, Matzoh Ball.
"Children who learn how to swim at a young age are reaching many developmental milestones earlier than the norm...Lead researcher Professor Robyn Jorgensen says the study shows young children who participate in early-years swimming achieve a wide range of skills earlier than the normal population."
Choose Level 1 (Water Adjustment)
Choose Level 2 (Introduction to Strokes) if your swimmer
Choose Level 3 (Stroke Development) if your swimmer
Choose Level 4 (Stroke Refinement) if your swimmer
Choose Introduction to Competitive Swimming 1 (ICS 1) if your swimmer
Choose Introduction to Competitive Swimming 2 (ICS 2) if your swimmer
