Meet Audrey

Welcome! I'm so happy you are here.

I've been coaching and teaching swimming since I was 18 years old, but my own swimming story began much earlier.

I was eight years old, wearing my favorite bright pink swimsuit with a giant plastic butterfly across the front, when I jumped into my first swim lesson.

I still remember the feeling.

I couldn't tell which way was up or down. I'd turn my head to “breathe” and end up swallowing half the pool. Freestyle didn't feel natural. It felt confusing, awkward, and hard.

But I just loved the water and figured it out — with a great coach, of course.

By my teenage years, I was training alongside some of the fastest swimmers in the world and learning from Olympic swimmers and coaches in Texas.

I learned a tremendous amount there.

Some of those lessons shaped me.

Others taught me what kind of coach I didn't want to become.

Now I'm 60… you can do the math.

That's a lot of mornings in the water. A lot of hours on pool decks, in lakes, and in the ocean. A lifetime of conversations with swimmers—and with the water itself.

For much of my career, I coached speed. Competitive swimmers, triathletes, and athletes chasing the next second off the clock.

Then the shift happened.

The swimmers who fascinated me most weren't trying to swim faster.

They wanted swimming to feel better.

They wanted to feel confident.

That changed the questions I was asking.

Instead of asking, “How can I make this swimmer faster?” I began asking, “What is this stroke trying to tell us?”

I understood that running out of breath, sinking legs, lifting the head, or feeling exhausted weren't problems to fix first. They were messages to understand. The water was giving honest feedback about balance, timing, awareness, and trust.

That understanding became the foundation of 4toFreestyle.

Today, my goal isn't simply to teach freestyle. It's to help you understand your own swimming. Step by step, you'll build a freestyle that feels comfortable, natural, and truly your own.

Because when you learn to read your stroke, you no longer need someone standing on the pool deck telling you what to do.

You become your own coach.