Meet Claire, Coach Claire to her swimmers and mommy to my two beautiful children. She is an STA qualified Baby and Preschool Teacher and an Early Years Educator who is incredibly passionate about Early Childhood development both in and out of the water.

For 8 years in South Africa she owned and operated a nursery school while taking her children to swimming lessons realized she could combine two of her greatest loves: water and children and went on to qualify as a swimming instructor.

She has been teaching baby and toddlers in Dubai for the past 3 years and has recently qualified to offer the Children of the Water self-rescue course. She is the first to offer this specialized program in the UAE. This intensive 10 day course teaches children age 9 month – 6 years how to change independently from a life threatening face down position to a life saving back float.   

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2017 – SSA Learn to Swim

• 2019 – STA Level 2 Baby and Preschool

• 2022 – Level 3 Training and Education

• 2022 – Children of The Water Holistic Self-Rescue

• 2023 – STA Child Safeguarding

INTERESTS:

• Travel
• Spending time with friends and family
• Water-sports activities