Danielle began swimming with the Sockeyes in 1995 as a six-year old because her best friend was swimming with the club.  She first qualified for the 1997 provincials and continued to train competitively until 2004.  She has many great memories with the club as a swimmer including training experiences, team events and swim meet achievements.  She has medaled on multiple provincial relays and is a level one certified swim coach.

Danielle began her coaching experience as a volunteer in the learn-to-skate program for the Salmon Arm Skating Club in 1999, but her first swimming coaching experience was for the Sockeyes Fries program five years later. She has coached many seasons of Winter Maintenance, including three winters as head coach and a year with the Kelowna Ogopogo’s as co-head coach.

In 2005, Danielle coached her first “summer” season with the club as a junior coach and has continued to coach since then, the past summer as co-head coach.  This will be her first summer as head coach.  Danielle has coached the junior swimmers every season and has enjoyed watching the group develop over the years and coaching many swimmers to successful seasons, including multiple provincial medalists.  She is especially grateful to the number of talented coaches who have influenced her own coaching as part of the Sockeyes’ team.

Danielle is excited to coach for her final summer with a team that has so much potential both within the Okanagan region and the province and she looks forward to working with such an outstanding coaching staff once again!

Jordyn Konrad has been swimming with the Sockeyes since she was five years old as she has grown to love every summer taking part of the team. She states that she has learned many important attributes by being part of the program from dedication, diligence and teamwork, and much more.

As a swimmer Jordyn has seen both sides of the podium starting out swimming with little focus on winning and just having fun, but later being inspired by coaches to go further into her recognized potential. This ended up leading to many individual and relay provincial medals plus coaches recognition as the champion of character until she decided to take the next step where she joined winter swimming in Vernon. There she also experienced success being named the most improved and winning another provincial medal on a relay. She currently swims on the Varsity team at SFU where she has gained the title being an All-American swimmer in the NAIAs.

Throughout Jordyn's swimming career, she has been very dedicated to helping young swimmers by being a volunteer coach and by hoping to be a positive role model to her teammates. This will be Jordyn's third summer being hired as a Sockeye coach. So far she has worked with developing the beginner swimmer in the club however she looks forward to working with the senior swimmer this season.

Jordyn loves instilling her passion of swimming into others, and she also loves seeing them reach their personal successes and developing in and out of the pool.

Chelsea is a long time swimmer, having swum with the Sockeyes from 2005 to 2009 and the Shuswap Swim Team from 2009 to 2012.

She was named Sockeye’s Rookie of the Year in her first year of swimming and this kick-started her desire to swim and compete.

Over the years she has accumulated numerous provincial medals, several regional records and many swim meet records.  Her favorite races are the 50 and 100 butterfly.

Chelsea says volunteer coaching for the Sockeyes Turtles program and with the junior groups instilled in her a love of coaching.   She has coached for 7 years now, and in that time has achieved her level one coaching certificate and has coached pre-competitive swimmers to masters swimmers and everyone in-between!

This is Chelsea’s first formal position as a Summer Sockeye coach and we welcome her.

Chelsea will be attending university in the fall for her Bachelorette of Nursing.  In addition to swimming, she is also an avid writer and photographer.

Carl Cooper says his mum enrolled him in a swimming club when he was 9 years old so he could learn how to ‘lose”, and indeed lose he did – coming dead last 35 'races' in a row. The next year he qualified for Provincials!

Carl swam summer swimming from 1970 until 1986, and then started again in 2004 until the present – 2012 will be his 25th year of summer swimming.   He also swam for the University of British Columbia Dolphins for 2 years, has swum with the Salmon Arm Masters and has been to the National Championships where  he currently holds a national age group record (200 Fly), and to the World Master Championships (silver and bronze medalist).

Carl began coaching as a 11 year old, helping younger swimmers in the diving tank in the outdoor Penticton swimming pool and he started formal coaching in 1977, with Campbell River for 5 years (top 10 in the province), and then North Delta for 5 years, where each year they won the top 'medium sized club’ in the Province, and consistently finished in the top 3 overall.

 In 1994 he briefly coached the Salmon Arm Sockeye Winter maintenance program and the Salmon Arm Masters.   In 2008 he rejoined the coaching ranks as an assistant coach with the Salmon Arm Sockeyes, and has enjoyed being part of the Sockeyes resurgence as a Provincial swimming power.

“However most of all, I enjoy seeing the joy on a swimmers face when they have worked hard, and see that hard work pay off with an outstanding personal performance” says Carl.

Carl has his Level 1 swim Coach Certification.