Coaches and Directors
Coaches and Directors
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I am an alumni of North Hills Swimming and I am so happy to be back helping to coaching the team! I swam for 12 years total. I had one year of experience swimming at a college level. I specialized in distance freestyle, but my favorite event was always the 200 IM. I am currently working towards my master’s degree in school counseling at Duquesne University. I also work at West View elementary as a classroom assistant. I am excited to get to know everyone and watch everyone grow as swimmers!
Carissa has over
20 years of swimming experience as both an athlete and a coach. She
swam in high school for the Northgate/Avonworth team and started
coaching with the North Hills Summer Swim League at the age of 18.
Later, she continued to gain experience moving into club coaching
for Allegheny Mountain Swimming.
Shortly after,
she moved on to Mount Union University to swim for four years on
the Academic All-American women’s team. While at Mount
Union, she was part of two record-breaking relay teams and was
voted captain her junior and senior year.
Carissa has a BA
in Broadcast Communications, which helped her land her first job as
a DJ in Ohio. Later, she trained to work with children on the
autism spectrum in Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy.
Carissa and her
husband John have three children who attend school in North Hills.
Her main goals are for her swimmers to have fun, work hard,
and to count on their teammates like family.
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