LETSWIM - Key Persons


Abby Winters

Abby is finishing her senior year at John Champe High School and is headed to the University of South Carolina this Fall. She enjoys working with children and is excited to get the chance to help your child learn to swim! This is Abby's 2nd Summer with LetSwim and she worked with us all year at our indoor communities. She began swimmin

Abigail Foley

Abigail is currently entering her senior year at Saint Paul VI Catholic High school. She began swimming at the age of 5 and has been swimming competitively for the past 10 years for the Potomac Marlins. This will be her first summer working with us, but she has coached with Lenah Run Froggers for 2 years. She loves swimming and hopes she

Ani Dykes

Ani has been swimming for 12 years and is so excited to return to LetSwim again this year. Ani swims competitively for Snow Swimming and has coached summer swim team for her community team for the past 3 years. Her favorite strokes are breaststroke and butterfly. She can't wait to meet your kids and share her passion of swimming with them! Ani's Private Lesson Schedule

Becca Yaunches

Becca will be returning this summer after she graduates from the University of Florida on April 30th. She plans on attending Life University in Marietta, GA in the Fall to begin her doctorate in Chiropractic Medicine. This summer she will be the Private Lesson Coordinator and Community Manager for Brambleton, Willowsford, Belmont and Dull

Charlotte Smith

Charlotte is a rising Junior at Independence High School. She learned to swim at the age of 2 and has been swimming ever since! She swims for the Stratford Sea Otters summer team and started junior coaching last year. Charlotte has swam year around with SNOW Swimming since she was 10. She also swims for her high school team. Charlotte is

Gowri Kalva

Gowri is a rising sophomore at John Champe High School in Aldie. She is a very passionate swimmer and is in her first year with LetSwim. Gowri is a certified lifeguard and is very comfortable in the water. Gowri also swims competitively throughout the year for both her high school and club teams. Outside of the water, Gowri enjoys watchi

Isabelle Quadt

Isabelle is a recent graduate from Briar Woods HS and will be attending NC State this fall, and is returning for her third summer working with LetSwim. She has been swimming since she was five with her summer swim team and loves teaching others how to swim while having fun. She is very excited to be back with LetSwim this summer and can't wait to pass on her love for swimming to your kids!

Joey Ungerleider

Joey recently graduated from Independence High School and will be attending James Madison University in the fall. Joey loves working with kids and is excited to not only teach your kids, but make sure they are comfortable and confident in the water. Joey is a NASM certified personal trainer and CPR & AED certified.

Josephine Burke

Josephine will return again for her 3rd year as a part of our team starting May 15th. In addition to teaching lessons this summer, she will be the Lesson Coordinator for both Piedmont and Dominion Valley communities. She grew up swimming on multiple different swim teams and was a coach for the Meadowbrook Makos. As a coach, she not only he

Josie Binkley

Josie will be joining the LetSwim team for the first time this summer as an instructor. She swam on her local swim team for 5 years and has strong foundation in all the competitive strokes. Aside from swimming, Josie loves to sing, bake, read, and hike. Josie has worked a variety of jobs in the past, but her favorites are babysitting and

Julia Cashmore

Julia learned how to swim as a child. This began her love of swimming and instructing. At 15 she became an instructor and worked her way from instructor, to assistant manager, and then Manager of a swim school in Maryland for 6 years. She was promoted to Director of Training & Development for Kids First Swim School Corporate and worked i

Kimmy Herbstritt

Kimmy is returning for her sixth summer working with LetSwim. She is a rising senior at the University of Iowa majoring in English and Creative Writing with a publication track and minoring in News and Media Literacy. She enjoys working with all ages of children. During her years of working with LetSwim, she has worked with a variety of d

Lakshmi Pathi

Lakshmi is a rising sophomore at Independence High School. She has been swimming since she was 7 and loves being in the water. She gained experience working with many different kids while babysitting and is excited to share her passion for the water with others. Lakshmi believes that swimming is a great way to keep fit and have fun. She l

Lauren Grealy

Lauren's lifelong passion for swimming comes from her many years on summer league, club, and high school swim teams. In high school, Lauren spent four summers as a summer league swim coach and private instructor with the Belmont Sharks in Ashburn, Virginia. When she is not coaching with LetSwim, Lauren works in global health and recent

Michael Crowe

Michael has always loved swimming & learned to swim at a young age. He continues to swim for exercise today. Michael worked for many years for the Loudoun County CASA program and developed his love for working with children. He also lived with family to help take care of their three disabled children. He developed patience and deep und

Netra Trivedi

Netra is a rising junior at Rock Ridge High School. She has been a swimmer since she was 5 and has also been a part of the community swim team for 4 years. Netra loves to work with kids and has babysat for the past 3 years. She is excited to be working with your kids helping them to grow into great swimmers! Netra's Private Lesson Schedule Coming Soon!

Nick Sousa

Nick attends Christopher Newport University and is majoring in Marketing. Nick swam for and coached the Brambleton Bettas for many summers. They love to be at the pool and swim as much as possible. Nick is passionate about spreading their love of swimming to others. We are excited that Nick is returning to LetSwim again this summer. They can't wait to teach your kids again this summer! Nick's Private Lesson Schedule Coming Soon!

Nicole Barker

Nicole is a rising senior at John Champe High school, where she has taken 2 years of early childhood classes. Nicole loves working with children, and is very excited to be joining our team this summer. Nicole swam competitively for 8 years with the Lenah Run Froggers and NCAP. She has given private swim lessons for the past two years and

Ola K. Alghazzouli

Job Titles:
  • ACE Certified Personal Trainer
Ola K. Alghazzouli is an ACE certified personal trainer, Red Cross BSI swim instructor, and a functional fitness specialist. She is a podcast host of the Purposeful Fitness with Coach Ola, and she has been helping clients through personal training and teaching group fitness classes at George Mason University. She has been swimming since age 6 years and teaching swimming since Fall 2019. She launched her social media campaign in summer 2020 #Swim4Akhirah to speak about swimming for the Muslim community to bring her passion for the swimming and water aerobics to educate, inspire, and motivate more families into the sport of swimming and benefits of the sport! She joined the track and field team in her junior and senior years in high school, and has participated in multiple 5k, 10k, and half-marathon races. She also worked with Soccer Shots where she helped young children ages 2-8 years to learn developmental skills and introduce the sport of soccer. She is thankful that she is able to share her passion for fitness with other people to become active, healthy, and fit with a purpose.

Olivia Mathias

Olivia is a rising sophomore and has been an avid swimmer since the age of 3. She swims competitively year-round on a club team as well as on her high school team. Olivia is well versed in all four strokes, her strongest being breaststroke, reaching AAAA time standards. She is ranked in the top 5% of national swimmers and top 2% of swimme

Paulette Roberson

Paulette has been actively involved in water safety and swim lessons throughout her life. She started in swim lessons at a young age and had intensive swim training during middle school. She has four children of her own that have all taken swim lessons and are terrific swimmers. Her love of adventure and aquatics led her to get certif

Sam Oliver

Sam has been an avid swimmer all his life. He learned to through LetSwim starting in Parent Tot at the age of 2. He joined the Lenah Run Froggers at the age of 4 and never stopped. He swam year-round for Snow Swimming and John Champe HS where he still holds the Virginia High School record in the 500 Freestyle. For the past two years he ha

Siobhan Jernigan

Siobhan is a rising sophomore at Independence High School. She babysat for two years, and once she stopped, she realized how much she missed working with kids. Siobhan loves swimming and has always been obsessed with going to the pool from an early age. Siobhan has worked with kids varying in ages from 1-7, and is very excited to be worki

Tamara Yaunches

Job Titles:
  • Contact Your Community Manager for Assistance
A lifelong swimmer since the age of 5, I never thought my career would involve swimming. It was only after I decided to stay home with my kids that I got involved with my community swim team that was just getting organized. A few short years later I discovered that the pool was my calling and I started my new career.

Tanishaa Khanvilkar

Tanishaa is a rising sophomore at Independence High School and has been swimming since she was a child. She is very passionate about swimming, passing on her knowledge to younger generations, as well as meeting new people. She has worked with kids of many ages, and strives to make everyone she's around the best version of themselves. She

Yashika Boddu

Yashika is a rising second-year at the University of Virginia studying Commerce and Computer Science, and is returning home for summer to teach with us! She has been swimming since the age of 6 and has swam competitively for both club and high school teams. Upon going to college, Yashika realized how much she missed the pool and is super