COACHES

DeaAnn Joslin - Head Coach / Senior Coach
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DeaAnn began swimming when she was 12-years old and living in Colorado. Her love and dedication for the sport of swimming earned her High School State Champion. Swimming for Colorado State she was a 9-Time Collegiate All American. In 1980 she ended the first phase of her swimming career and later graduated from CU with a BS-nursing in 1982.

DeaAnn began coaching at the age group level in 1985 with the Petaluma Swim Club (PET). She later advanced to Head Age Group Coach at Indian Valley Aquatics (IVAN). In 1991 she took the Head Coaching position for PET where she led the team for the next 10 years.

In March of 2006 DeaAnn created Westside Aquaducks (WA) where she remains to date as Head Coach and head of Westside's Learn-To-Swim program.

DeaAnn has 5 children and an amazingly supportive husband. For fun she trains herself and the Petaluma Masters. In addition to her daily workouts in the pool, she enjoys weekly dips in the bay and splashing from island to island in Hawaii.

Lisa Gutt - Silver Coach
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Pat McMillan - Purple Group Coach
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Pat began swimming with The Petaluma Swim Club in 1977. He swam competitively throughout high school and junior college as well as water polo. While attending UC Santa Cruz Pat discovered Masters Swimming. (Go Fighting Banana Slugs!)

Pat has been coaching students on the swim team at PHS for 12 years (he is now Head Coach), as well as coaching Masters Swimming for 7 years. In the fall of 1995 he began coaching as a sub for DeaAnn with the Petaluma Swim Club, and in June 2006 joined Westside to coach the Purple Group. Pat continues to swim and is a distance freestyler and I.M.er.

Liz Seymour - D4 Coach
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Melissa Sequra - D3 Coach
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I started swimming on the Petaluma Swim Team when I was 6 years old. I swam for Petaluma High School, Santa Rosa Junior College and San Diego State University. I reached Junior Nationals achievements at the Club level and was a State Champion during my JC years. I was fortunate enough to swim in Hawaii, Santa Clara and Washington on the All Star Teams. Swimming has always been a part of my life. I continue to stay in shape so that I can compete in the SRJC Alumni meet every year.

I started coaching when I was 20 years old, took a break and coached again when I was 24 years old. I am excited to be a part of the swimming world again. I bring my experience and knowledge of the sport as not only a swimmer, but also a coach.

Amy Ross - FITNESS
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"The 9 years I spent swimming on the Petaluma Swim Club were some of the best years of my life. I joined the team when I was 8 years old and quickly made all kinds of new friends from all different walks of life, many of whom I still keep in contact with today (thank you Facebook). It didn't matter if they were boys or girls, older or younger, or went to a different school . For me, the best part about swimming was the social time: hanging out with my friends at practice, getting to meet new people, and visiting with friends from other teams at swim meets.

I have experience teaching swim lessons to both children and adults. I've worked with non-swimmers afraid to put their faces in the water and adults that never learned to swim as children. This will be my first experience with coaching at the team level and I'm very excited to put my stroke knowledge to use. I also look forward to being able to work alongside my good friend and sister Melissa.

I have a wonderful husband and two energetic boys whom I love spending time with. I work as a substitute teacher and classroom aide at my boys' school and guide for a local bike tour company. I have a degree from Sonoma State University in Liberal Studies as well as a Cosmetology degree. In my “spare” time I enjoy yoga, running, kayaking, reality TV, reading, cooking and scrapbooking.

Sheila Davis email & Jenny McDonald email
D2 Coachs