Miss Wendy's Resume'
Wendy started teaching in San Diego with her own son while attending a Mommy and Me class
at the Y.M.C.A. The instructor of that class saw potential in her and began having her assist with other children.
In 1973, she moved to the central coast where she received her Water Safety Instructor Certification and her Adapted Aquatics
Certification from the America Red Cross. She began teaching her own Mommy and Me classes in Seaside in
a rented backyard pool. These classes were later moved to a pool in Carmel Valley. After the birth of her second son,
she moved to another rented backyard pool in Marina, where she taught small group classes for 23 years. Many of her students
went on to join local swim teams. A number of them swam at the junior national and national level, and became swim instructors
themselves!
Wendy also was the director of the swim program for the former Fort Ord's Youth Activities Office. She
and her staff of six instructors taught an average of 150 children and adults each month, totaling thousands during
her 15 years with the program.
She has taught swimming for the physically and mentally challenged at two locations on the penninsula,
including heading the adaptive swim program for the local school district.
Wendy has been trained in Adult, Child, and Infant
CPR, as well as First Aid. She has taken numerous college level courses in child psychology and early learning.
In the late '90's she received her coaching certification
in Synchronized swimming and launched the Monterey Synchronized Sea Otters, a new local team for which she was head
coach for three years.
From 1999 until 2006, Wendy took her classes to Salinas Athletic Club, where she continued to teach
children and adults, until finally purchasing a home with an indoor pool in Salinas, California in 2005. She taught
year-round classes out of her home pool for the next 14 years, until her (semi) retirement in 2019.
During the course of her career spanning over 50 years, she
has taught 3 generations of some of her swim families, and has taught a total of over 10,000 children and adults to be water-safe.
