SBAC welcomes Carolyn Watts to the coaching staff,

Coach Carolyn will assume the role of head coach of the novice program and will become the primary coach for the beginning age group program as well as assist with advanced age group and Senior group swimmers.

Here's a bit of a background on Carolyn,

Coach Carolyn grew up in San Jose and been around the pool her whole life. Born into a family of swimmers, she's always loved the water and comes to Santa Barbara as a multi-disciplined aquatics athlete. Carolyn swan for eight years with San Jose Aquatics Club and for Purdue University as a freshman. She also competed nationally and internationally as a synchronized swimmer, representing the US in Russia and Italy as a member of the Junior National team. Carolyn has previously coached both high school athletes and worked with early developmental swimmers in the Bay area. Carolyn now attends UCSB as an Art History major.

In her own word: "I look forward to sharing my love of the water with the SBAC swim team. I had so much fun being on a swim team and I hope I can help SBAC grow and produce super swimmers.