Sarah Kubada

Hello everyone and thank you so much for the warm welcome to the Bluebacks. I am very excited to be a part of the club this summer and looking forward to all the amazing swims, exciting events, and incredible memories that are sure to come. I am joining you in my 11th season as a coach with BCSSA, and come from coaching with many clubs around the province. I have also been sitting on the BCSSA Board of Directors as the Coaches Representitive for the last 3 years. I started my swimming career with the Coquitlam Sharks at the young age of 7, and started with the Hyack Swim Club a few years later. I swam my first year at SFU, where I am studying Kinesiology and Linguistics, and will hopefully be enrolled in the Education Program in Spring 2011. I swam at multiple National championships, and throughout my swimming career learned many skills and life lessons that have helped me form into the person I am today. Swimming within the BCSSA organization has opened up many doors for my family and I, and I will be forever grateful for the doors that it has opened for all of us.

I got into coaching because to stay away from the pool when I ended my career was way too hard. What I realized is that it is exactly where I want to be. I truly believe that as a coach we are coaching the person, we are helping form the young individuals into the amazing people that they will soon become. We are helping them create their own path and lend them a helping hand as they travel down it. Through my passion and love for the sport is where the skill is taught, but seeing each swimmer grow as an individual from season to season is why my alarm is set at 5:30am every morning.

Good luck this season! See you at the pool!