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Individualized training

Swim together regularly in focused and dynamic pool sessions devoted to freestyle technique for open water, endurance pacing & distance speed.  

Coach Gretchan

I became a coach to empower swimmers of all backgrounds to become more effective in their freestyle technique and their approach to swim training. My goal is to have every swim safe, enjoyable and focused.

During my childhood, I grew up near lakes and oceans and have always had a love for the water, yet I never really learned the freestyle stroke. In undergrad while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I enrolled in an elective triathlon class and learned the S-pull stroke and how to barely survive the swim in the wild sport of triathlon. Eleven years ago, I dove into my local river, the Mighty Willamette, and discovered my own love of swimming together outside with others with the open water River Hugger Swim Team. Get In & Swim was born 2 years later.

Through the Swim Smooth methodology and coaching framework, I relearned my own freestyle technique and now offer professional level form correction and training programs as one of a select group of Certified Swim Smooth Coaches in the world.