Coaches

Erica

Erica is the head coach of our competitive program. Erica started artistic swimming in the Sydney Emeralds, just like many of our swimmers today before moving to the Gold Coast Mermaids. After 4 years on the Australian National Artistic Swimming Team representing Australia at numerous world events, Erica has returned to Sydney to pass on everything she has learned.

Hannah

Hannah is a senior coach of our competitive program. Hannah grew up and trained in Singapore, representing the country internationally for 7 years before moving to Sydney, including winning Gold at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, and competing in the Asian Games and several World Championships. She began assistant coaching in Singapore clubs before taking on a bigger coaching role in Sydney Emeralds, whilst still training and competing.

Sylvia

Sylvia was a Guangzhou Synchronized Swimming athlete in China. She received her first award in Team Freestyle in the Chinese Youth National Competition. Moreover, she was a coach at the Guangzhou Team for two years. During this period, she led the team to get the second award in Team Freestyle in the Chinese Youth National Competition. In addition, she was also a judge in many Guangdong Province Synchronized Swimming Competitions and Guangzhou Synchronized Swimming Competitions.

Jo

Jo is our recreational head coach here at the Sydney Emeralds. During a long career competing for both Singapore and Australia internationally, Jo has multiple achievements, most notably swimming in the team that qualified Australia for the 2016 Olympics. Starting quite young, Jo helped coach her juniors at her home club Gold Coast Mermaids, moving on to coach Sydney-based swimmers on her own and eventually joining us the Emeralds. Over the last 7 years, Jo has developed the confidence and skills of an impressive range of swimmers, from recreational swimmers just learning to swim to swimmers who represented Australia in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Tessa

Tessa is our home-grown coach. She started swimming with the Emeralds in 2012 and continued on until 2019, where she competed at Nationals with our masters team and won gold. Tessa now coaches our recreational swimmers, and has proven herself to be an extremely valuable member of the coaching team.

Isabel

Isabel started swimming at Sydney Emeralds in the recreational program, before moving to competitive in 2021. She is grateful for the opportunity to pass on all that she has learnt to the younger swimmers in the sport that she loves.

Ruby

Ruby is a high school student and part-time coach for the Sydney Emeralds. She started as a recreational synchro swimmer, then swam competitively as part of the club in the under 12s and the 13-15s team. Her passion for the sport started as a team member and now loves coaching the next generation of swimmers.