Jessica began coaching at NCAP in the summer of 2009 and has been Head Coach at Claude Moore since 2016. She has an extensive swimming background dating back to her local age group program in Michigan and then through high school, college and master’s programs. Jessica has almost thirty years of coaching experience, working with summer league, high school, triathlon, Special Olympic and USA club teams in Michigan and the Northern Virginia area. She has worked with swimmers ranging from beginners to Olympic Trials qualifiers and is ASCA Level 4 certified.
Jessica has coached many USA Swimming and PVS Top-10 and Top-20, All Time Top 100 and 18 & Under World 100 athletes over the years, including National Age Group Record breakers, and has had multiple swimmers invited to and attend a variety of Select Camps. Her athletes have earned many accolades over the years, including the PVS Scholar Athlete Award, USA Swimming Scholastic All-America, NISCA All-America, All-LoCo Athlete of the Year, First Team and Honorable Mention, WaPo All-Met First Team, Second Team and Honorable Mention, etc.
Jessica has also been selected to the coaching staff for USA Swimming’s Eastern Zone Select Camp, Eastern Zone Diversity Select Camp, National Select Camp, National Diversity Select Camp and was chosen to serve as Head Coach of the Western Zone Select Camp in May of 2022 and as Head Coach of the Western Zone Diversity Select Camp before it was cancelled due to the pandemic. She served a two-year term on the Potomac Valley Swimming Board as Senior Coaches Representative and has spent the last several years on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Board and recently served as the PVS DEI Chair for the 2021-2023 term. Coach Jessica lives in Lovettsville with her husband, Joe, and their six cats. In her free time, she enjoys reading, crocheting, building Lego sets and traveling.