COACHES

DeaAnn Joslin - Head Coach / Senior Coach
ddbridgeduck@comcast.net

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
lisagutt@yahoo.com

Pat McMillan - Purple Group Coach
jpmswim@pacbell.net

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.

Vanessa Sallee - D4 Coach
vbsallee@yahoo.com

Vanessa has been swimming competitively since the age of 5. She swam for the Sebastopol Sea Serpents and the Sonoma Sea Dragons, until she made her way to the Petaluma Riptides and her present-day coach, (and beloved friend) DeaAnn Joslin.

After graduating from El Molino High School, Vanessa continued competition swimming while attending SRJC and UC Davis in 2002 where she swam on scholarship and was a double All-American.

Vanessa continued her education after graduating from Davis in 2004 with an Art Studio Degree. She went on to receive her Teaching credential through Sacramento State in 2005. She then moved home to Sonoma County to teach Kindergarten, and is currently teaching a 5th/6th combo class.

When she is not in the water Vanessa enjoys painting/drawing, traveling, and taking her new puppy, Coda, on energetic adventures! Her favorite foods include cheese, ice cream and mashed potatoes. YUM! She is very excited to be coaching with Westside and loves working with her D4's!

Vanessa continues her training and competing making her our most Senior swimmer on Westside and setting a positive example for her D4 swimmers.

For all D4 group issues or questions.

Liz Seymour - D3 Coach
seymour.liz@gmail.com

Sheila Davis - D2 Coach
my4h2obugs@hotmail.com