Indoor Swimming Pool

Monday-Friday

• 6:10-7:20 a.m.
• 7:20-8:30 a.m.

Monday-Thursday

• 6:00–7:15 p.m.

Summer, inter-session, exam weeks and reduced building hours:
Monday-Friday

• 7:15-8:30 a.m.

Monday-Thursday

• 6:00–7:00 p.m.

• Try-out Fee: $27/entry
• Senior: $66/month or $625/year
• Individual: $99/month (monthly auto renewal required) or $865/year
• All members must also pay the yearly USMS registration fee.

Head Coach: Chris Wagner

Coach Chris enthusiastically brings more than 20 years of masters swimming experience to his role as Head Coach. He is a Certified Level III U.S. Masters Swimming Coach and frequently coaches USMS Stroke Development Clinics. Chris serves on the Pacific Coaches and Clubs Committee supporting 120 clubs in the region with training, education, and networking opportunities, and is active on the national level as a member of the USMS Finance Committee. As an avid open water swimmer, former triathlete, college swimmer, Prep-All American, and today, a fitness swimmer, Chris is well versed to support swimmers of all abilities and interests. He’s an active member and former treasurer of the Dolphin Club and swimmer with the open water USMS China Beach Swim Club. Chris has a life-long love and passion for swimming, coaching, and helping swimmers improve their stroke technique, conditioning, speed, and most importantly, Chris loves having fun.

Assistant Coach: Taylor Davis

Coach Taylor brings her genuine passion for swimming and coaching others with her on deck everyday. She grew up swimming competitively in Southern California and although Taylor thought she left competition behind after high school, she’s remained an avid swimmer and coach. Coach Taylor is a Certified Level III US Masters Swim Coach and has trained high school and adult swimmers alike. Currently, if Taylor’s not curating or crafting a challenging workout for her Masters teammates, she’s fixating on her own personal swim goals in the pool and open water.

Courtney (she/her) loves helping people on their swim journey and finds it absolutely fulfilling. She has been helping people learn to swim for 5+ years now. She has worked at swim academies for 5 years and taught independently for 4 years all over the Bay Area. She has been swimming since she was 5 and has always been involved in water activities: swim lessons, Jr Lifeguarding, high school swim team, water polo, & swim instruction! Courtney has created a unique learn-to-swim curriculum that has been proven to produce great swimmers that have little to no experience in the water. She is currently attending SFSU for a BA in Women & Gender Studies with a certificate in Holistic Health.

Courtney enjoys teaching students of all ages and swim experience but finds teaching those with 0 experience is her greatest strength. She specializes in teaching from scratch and helping people with past traumatic experiences in the water. She believes that swimming is a personal journey where she can lend a helping hand to anyone in order to overcome their fears of the water. 

Kathleen (she/her) has been swimming with USF Masters since August 2011. She swam competitively throughout her childhood and college, and then took a "break" that lasted about 30 years. One thing she loves about participating as an adult is the chance to learn more about the technical, physical and mental aspects of the sport. She was especially inspired after attending the Intensive Workshop in Walnut Creek (which she would recommend highly).  Ever since then, she has been looking for ways to learn more, and to take that knowledge and help other improve. This year she became a certified US Masters Coach, and have begun assisting Coach Val and Aquatic Director, Clare Rudd with the team. She looks forward to working with each of you toward achieving your swimming goals! She coaches adults & high level swim team only.

Serina (she/her) has been swimming since before she could walk, lifeguarding for 14 years, and teaching swim lessons for just as long. She brings a unique experience of mastering the competitive swimming strokes as an adult, through the City College of San Francisco swim program, where they trained and recruited women to join their new team in 2011. Since then it has become a meticulous endeavor to continuously improve on her strokes and others. She is American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor certified and presses upon the importance of learning safety in water above all else. She believes that once you feel safe in the water, other things will fall into place. She has led parent-toddler swim lessons, pre-school levels, all six Red Cross learn-to-swim levels, pre-swim team classes, adult learn-to-swim classes as well as swim coaching youth and Masters. She enjoys teaching all types of swimmers, improving upon teaching strategies for the varying challenges that each level can have. She has continued to teach swim lessons for the joy that comes with mastering something new, while addressing the range of concerns, frustrations, and uncertainty that is inevitable with all swimmers, at all levels. She is excited to meet you and get to know your goals for your swimming future!

Isela (she/her) grew up in Southern California where every birthday party was a pool party and every other weekend, she and her family were on a boat in the middle of a lake or river. Consequently, her favorite sport and activity quickly became swimming. Her philosophy with swim instruction is helping children and adults of all ages find the confidence to push themselves just a little bit more, so that they too can enjoy all that swimming has to offer. She has 3+ years of swim instruction experience and enjoys helping people with no experience learn how to swim and be comfortable in the water. She also has experience teaching the different strokes, and can help adults learn these strokes to take up swimming as an enjoyable hobby or exercise that is easy on the body. She has experience with Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy, and knows that water play can be a stimulating activity for children on the spectrum and loves to see these clients enjoy their time in the water as well. Teaching is something that she thoroughly enjoys and she strives to center the curriculum around the client’s needs and makes sure every lesson gets them one step closer to achieving their swim goals. 

Coach Angel (He/Him) has been swimming competitively since the age of 7. Born and raised in sunny Southern California, he trained and competed with Beach Cities Swimming where he swam on their Sectional team. As an age group swimmer, Angel specialized in butterfly and breaststroke events. As Angel started to attend the University of San Francisco, he maintained his love for swimming by coaching the Koret Youth Swim Team. He finds joy in providing young swimmers the knowledge, technique, and discipline to be the best athletes they can be, just as his coaches did for him as a club swimmer. He will graduate with his Bachelor of Science in Nursing in the Spring of 2025.

Coach Veronika (she/her) is from San Diego, CA and has been an athlete all her life. After graduating high school, she attended Queens University of Charlotte and competed on both the NCAA triathlon and swim teams while earning her Bachelor's in International Studies. She received the opportunity to be a part of the national team that acquired its 5th national championship in triathlon as well as a part of the swim team, who also had 5 NCAA DII titles to their name. After graduating early, she decided to pursue a Master's in International Development and Economics at the University of San Francisco and compete on the DI NCAA Triathlon team while continuing to swim competitively during breaks from school.

During summers and throughout a gap year after graduating from Queens, Veronika returned to her club swim team to help coach the team's youngest swimmers. She is passionate about developing swimmers with a priority of having fun and encouraging companionship between teammates. She credits her success and longevity in sports to coaches who placed a strong emphasis on balance and teammates who showed her sports were about much more than the competition, and hopes to use her position as a coach to pass that mindset to the next generation of athletes.

• Must be 15 years of age and be able to pass the pre-course swimming test on the first day of class
• This includes a 300-yard swim using front crawl or breaststroke, a 2-minute tread using legs only, and the ability to retrieve a 10-lb dive weight (a brick) from 7 ft deep, surface and swim 20 yds with the weight, using legs only and exit the pool without using a ladder within 100 seconds.