Coaching experience:

Jamie Jackson returns to coaching after taking a year off to attend the Horizon School of Evangelism (HSE); a 10 month discipleship program at Horizon Christian Fellowship. Prior to attending HSE, Jamie was the assistant swim coach for the University of San Diego (her Alma mater). Jamie coached at USD for 3 years (2007-2010), where she assisted in administrative duties, working with the sprinters as well as other strokes and distances, and coaching dryland. Some of her favorite times from coaching at USD were the day to day interactions with the swimmers, having the priviledge to watch them grow and mature not only as athletes, but as people, and making "pump up" videos for the team for the Conference Meet! Before moving to San Diego to coach at USD, Jamie was living in her hometown of Long Beach and getting her start in coaching at Beach Swim Club and Wilson High School (both programs of which she swam for while growing up). While at Beach and Wilson, Jamie was responsible for the Senior Development group and the Freshmen girls, respectively.

While growing up in Long Beach, Jamie started swimming competitively at the age of 7, swam and played water polo in high school, and then swam at USD for college. She graduated USD in 2005 with a Bachelor's in Psychology. Jamie specialized in the 200 and 500 free, as well as the distance events and freestyle relays while in college. Since starting coaching in the Fall of 2005, Jamie has loved every minute of it. Some of her favorite things about coaching are, "getting to motivate and encourage some one to accomplish something that they didn't think they could do previously, making connections from the hard work you do in the pool to the real world beyond the lane lines, and helping athletes realize that they are more than "just a swimmer" and that they have a purpose in life and the potential to go after their dreams in and out of the pool."

 

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