Joseph Glenn
Head Coach
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Coach Joe joined Aulea in May 2014. Prior to that he worked as
an assistant at Punahou beginning in 2004 and took over as head
coach in 2008. Coach Joe is an American Swimming Coaches Assocation
(ASCA) level 4 swim coach, which is in the top 10% of all coaches
in the nation, and was named ASCA's Hawaiian Swimming Age
Group Coach of the year in 2011. In 2016, his second season with
Aulea, Joe was one of 100 coaches nationwide named as Nationl
Junior Team Coach. He has coached swimmers to all levels including
junior and senior nationals and has had many swimmers reach
national top 10 rankings. He has coached swimmers to over 30
new Hawaiian swimming records as well. During his short time
with Aulea he has already helped the team to accomplish the
following:
-Aulea acheived Bronze Medeal Status (top 200 club nationwide
out of almost 3'000) in 2016 and 2017
-Grew the club from 90 to 200 members
-Jumped from 13th place at age group state
championships in December 2013 to 2nd place
in July 2015 and sustainted top 3 finishes since then
-Jumped up from 10th place at Hawaiian Swimming Senior
championships in November 2013 to 2nd place in November 2014 (SCY)
and June 2015 (LCM)
-Top 10 team finish at Senior Sectionals in both 2015 and 2016
-Qualified mulitiple swimmers for the USA Swimming Senior
National and Junior National competitions. One swimmer had a
runner up finish at Junior Nationals and qualified for USA
swimming's national junior team.
-Had a swimmer who broke 5 Hawaiian Open division men's
records
-Over 20 invidual or relay state championships earned
During his time at Punahou, Joe also worked as a social studies
teacher at Farrington High School and was also the head swim coach
at Farrington High School from 2006-2013. He revived a
program that had been dormant from 1997-2005 to a top-10 finish in
the OIA and it’s first state qualifying individual swimmers
and relay swimmers in over 40 years.
Joe grew up in Santa Rosa, Ca and swam club from the ages of
6-18 with the Santa Rosa Neptunes qualifying for and competing at
the Junior National level. After high School, Joe went to
Denison University in Ohio where he studied economics and was a
four year member of the varsity swim team which twice finished as
runner-ups at the Division III swimming and diving national
championships. Joe won multiple All-American honors during
his tenure and served as team captain during his senior year.
Immediately after college Joe returned to the bay area and worked
in the mortgage finance industry helping mortgage banks with
interest rate risk management. Shorty after moving to Hawaii,
Joe received his teaching license in secondary social studies.
During his time at Farrington High School, Joe was named an Ola
Pono award winner in 2008 (one of ten winners statewide) for his
work in promoting safe, healthy and drug-free lifestyles. In
addition, he was featured in a front page article in the
Star-Advertiser in 2012 for his work in reviving the Farrington
High School swim program. After taking the Aulea job, Joe
decided to make a full plunge in to windward aquatics and as
of 2014 he serves as the head Coach of the Le Jardin Academy
Bulldogs.
Joe and his wife Melissa live in Kaneohe. They have a
six year old daughter named Maya and a 9 month old son named
Aidan. In addition to serving as head coach of Aulea, Joe is
currently working as the Executive Director of the Hawaii
Aquatics Foundation, a non-profit who's mission it is to have all
2nd grade students on the Hawaiian Islands learn drowning
prevention skills. He also serves as the Age Group Chair for
the Hawaiian Swimming LSC. In his spare time, Joe can be
found doing open water swims, surfing, hiking, biking and enjoying
time with his family.
Yan Chen
Junior Group Coach
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Coach Yan
joined Aulea in September of 2017 and she will be serving as
our Gold group coach. Coach Yan is a
retired Chinese National team swimmer. She won a Gold
medal at 4×200m freestyle at 1997 FINA Short Course
World Championships. Later that year at Chinese National Games, she
broke world record at 400m individual medley.
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She then won 400m individual medley and 400m freestyle
at 1998 Perth World Aquatics Championships. She
participated in 1996 and 2000 two Olympic Games.
She started college in China and transferred to UH Manoa in 2002 as
a sophomore. She earned her BS in 3 years, and swam on an Full
Scholarship. After her undergrad, she completed a
master's degree at UH and has been working in recreation management
with the Sheraton hotel ever since. She was both the head age group
coach and head coach for Punahou Aquatics in Honolulu, HI from
2008-2016. Her time at Punahou was extremely productive.
She coached swimmers to over 50 state age group records and
coached state, regional and zone champions as well as multiple
national top 10 swimmers.
Coach Yan believes in a very technical approach with fundamental
skills such as kicking and streamline at the core of her belief.
She is very goal driven and teaches her swimmers to be that
way as well. She shares not only swimming expertise with her
swimmers but also her own life experiences both in and out of the
pool. We are very fortunate to have coach Yan leading the
gold group. When she isn't coaching or working at the hotel,
she enjoys swimming herself and loves surfing!
Robert Scanlan
Assistant Coach- Silver/Swim School
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Coach Rob joins us with a rich history of coaching competitive
swimming. Prior to his arrival at Aulea, he and fellow
colleague Ryan Jones started up the Rocklin Mavericks (RMAV) in
Northern California from 2015-2017. During his tenure, he turned a
Senior program around by producing 5 Sectional Qualifiers, 2 Future
Qualifiers and graduated multiple athletes who went on to swim in
DI and DII programs in college. On the age group side, the club
finished in the top 10 at the Sierra Nevada LC and SC JO’s,
top 50 at Far Westerns and produce two top 16 nationally
ranked swimmers in the country. In 2013-2015, Rob was the Assistant
Head Coach for the Sierra Marlins where he coached all levels of
Senior swimmers - BB+, junior, senior nationals and Olympic Trial
Qualifiers - he also served as the Interim Head Coach during the
clubs transition in 2014. From 2008-2013, Rob was the Senior II
lead coach at Santa Clara Swim Club. The club was in a major
transition when he took over with only 15 senior swimmers in his
group with an average attendance below 50%, at the end of his
tenure the senior group grew to nearly 75 swimmers, attendance
hovered around 80%. He also put numerous swimmers on Far Westerns
and Zone teams and promoted many of his athletes into the JR
National Group. Rob took a fledgling program at SCSC and molded it
into one of the top 10 Senior programs in the country. In 2006-2008
Rob was the Head Age Group Coach of LAMVAC (Los Altos Mountain View
Aquatics Club). He revived the age group program by producing
multiple Junior Olympic and Far Western Swimmers; the most that
club had ever seen years.
Rob grew up swimming at the YMCA in American Samoa, he later moved
to Hawaii, graduated from Aiea High School and swam under Bill
Sakovich (Hawaii Hall of Fame Swim Coach). After High School he
swam at Foothill College in California and was a finalist in the
100yd and 200yd breaststroke at the JUCO Coast Conference
Championships. He then transferred to San Jose State University
majoring in Psychology. Rob and his fiance Tiffany live in Kaneohe,
he is an avid surfer and loves catching the swell in his free
time.
Kirstin Cabrales
Assistant Coach- Bronze/Swim School
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Coach Kirstin joined Aulea in the beginning of 2020. Prior to that
she has worked for Hawaii Aquatics Academy as a Swim Instructor,
teaching elementary school-aged children as part of a Water Safety
Initiative.
Kirstin was born in Virginia, though moved to Hawaii at the
age of five and has been living here for over 15 years. After
graduating Kailua High School, she moved to Colorado for a brief
period of three years, and decided to move to Virginia to marry her
husband in 2017. She returned ready to tackle new challenges, and
is always eager to learn new skills.
