Indoor Swimming Pool

Monday-Friday

• 6:15–7:30 a.m.: Medium-fast pace
• 7:30–8:30 a.m.: Slow-medium pace

Monday-Thursday

• 6-7:15 p.m.: Medium-fast pace, more yardage

• Try-out/Drop-in Fee: $25/entry
• Senior: $60/month or $565/year
• Individual: $90/month or $785/year
• All members must also pay the yearly USMS registration fee.

Courtney (she/her) loves helping people on their swim journey and finds it absolutely fulfilling. She has been helping people learn to swim for 5+ years now. She has worked at swim academies for 5 years and taught independently for 4 years all over the Bay Area. She has been swimming since she was 5 and has always been involved in water activities: swim lessons, Jr Lifeguarding, high school swim team, water polo, & swim instruction! Courtney has created a unique learn-to-swim curriculum that has been proven to produce great swimmers that have little to no experience in the water. She is currently attending SFSU for a BA in Women & Gender Studies with a certificate in Holistic Health.

Courtney enjoys teaching students of all ages and swim experience but finds teaching those with 0 experience is her greatest strength. She specializes in teaching from scratch and helping people with past traumatic experiences in the water. She believes that swimming is a personal journey where she can lend a helping hand to anyone in order to overcome their fears of the water. 

Edwin (he/him) is a passionate swimmer who has loved the water since he first learned how to swim at the young age of 4. He is a 3rd year Nursing student here at USF and is from Los Angeles California. Edwin has swam competitively for over 10 years and is currently a Club Officer for USF’s Club Water Polo team and an avid member of USF’s Club Swim Team. Edwin is an adventurous swimmer who loves to surf and completed the Escape from Alcatraz Swim in September of 2021. 

Edwin has been a Coach and Swim instructor since 2016. He has used his swimming experience to teach at a variety of institutions including the YMCA, Los Angeles Rec & Parks, and now Koret Aquatics!  Edwin focuses on the importance of fundamentals while keeping the lessons fun and exciting! Edwin loves watching swimmers of all skill levels improve over time and is excited to start working with you! He coaches all ages.

Kathleen (she/her) has been swimming with USF Masters since August 2011. She swam competitively throughout her childhood and college, and then took a "break" that lasted about 30 years. One thing she loves about participating as an adult is the chance to learn more about the technical, physical and mental aspects of the sport. She was especially inspired after attending the Intensive Workshop in Walnut Creek (which she would recommend highly).  Ever since then, she has been looking for ways to learn more, and to take that knowledge and help other improve. This year she became a certified US Masters Coach, and have begun assisting Coach Val and Aquatic Director, Clare Rudd with the team. She looks forward to working with each of you toward achieving your swimming goals! She coaches adults & high level swim team only.

Serina (she/her) has been swimming since before she could walk, lifeguarding for 14 years, and teaching swim lessons for just as long. She brings a unique experience of mastering the competitive swimming strokes as an adult, through the City College of San Francisco swim program, where they trained and recruited women to join their new team in 2011. Since then it has become a meticulous endeavor to continuously improve on her strokes and others. She is American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor certified and presses upon the importance of learning safety in water above all else. She believes that once you feel safe in the water, other things will fall into place. She has led parent-toddler swim lessons, pre-school levels, all six Red Cross learn-to-swim levels, pre-swim team classes, adult learn-to-swim classes as well as swim coaching youth and Masters. She enjoys teaching all types of swimmers, improving upon teaching strategies for the varying challenges that each level can have. She has continued to teach swim lessons for the joy that comes with mastering something new, while addressing the range of concerns, frustrations, and uncertainty that is inevitable with all swimmers, at all levels. She is excited to meet you and get to know your goals for your swimming future!

Fayez (he/him) started swimming at the age of 3 and has fallen in love with the sport ever since. He has swam competitively for 10 years, gaining familiarity with the best sets, drills, and techniques to help him become a great overall swimmer. He has worked as a Lifeguard and Instructor Guard for 2 years and was American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor certified. He is a passionate and kind instructor who finds it rewarding to see his students not only progress in their skill set but also fall in love with swimming as he did.

Fayez's instruction focuses on the proper technique needed to improve on each stroke while maintaining a safe and fun environment for all his students. Fayez has taught swim lessons of all levels and ages, varying from parent-toddler swim lessons all the way to advanced swimming. Fayez finds the most joy when it comes to teaching kids of all ages. Seeing a kid smile or celebrate ecstatically after successfully completing a swim exercise and gradually gaining more confidence in the water is what drives him to teach. His drive to work with kids and make a positive impact in their life is translatable to his academic career as a senior nursing student with the goal of becoming a pediatric nurse. He is excited to work with his students and help make them the best swimmer they can be!

• Must be 15 years of age and be able to pass the following swim test on the first day of class
• 500 yard swim using freestyle & breaststroke
• Tread water for 2 minutes using legs only
• Retrieve a diving brick from 10 feet deep