Head Coach
Coach Daryn has been a USA Swimming coach for a number of years and has experience coaching swimmers at all levels from Learn-to-Swim to Division I and Olympic Trials. She has coached summer league, high school, USA Swimming clubs, and NCAA Division I swimming. She has earned American Swimming Coaches Association Level 4 certification, received a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Behavior from the University of the Pacific, and is certified through NFPT as a personal trainer.
In 2007, Daryn founded the USA Swimming Club program at Bear River as Bear River Swimming Association. In 2012, she became the head coach of the historic Penguin Swim Team and combined the programs to create Northern Sierra Swimming.
Daryn previously coached the University of the Pacific men’s and women’s swim teams. In Daryn's first season with Pacific, she began the season as an assistant before being named interim head coach during the 2004-05 season. After leading Pacific to the Big West title, she was awarded Big West Men's Coach of the Year. She also served as Head Age Group coach at Tiger Aquatics. Before Pacific, Daryn was the head coach/president of Bear Swimming in Berkeley, California, for five years. She was also the senior coach with the Walnut Creek Aquabears.