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

• 2024 STA Level 2 Award in Teaching Swimming

INTERESTS:

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