Welcome Ms. Rebecca!

Please extend a warm welcome to Ms. Rebecca, our newest instructor!

Rebecca has been swimming all her life. Throughout her childhood, she swam on a nearly year-round competitive team called the Hornets. She continued on to swim on her high school team, also called the Hornets, so basically her entire childhood was spent wearing black and yellow sweatshirts with huge wasps on the front. She mostly swam 100 butterfly and 200 IM. As a teen, she worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor at her high school and the local YMCA.

Rebecca earned a B.A. in Journalism from UW-Madison (where she swam laps at the SERF) and a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. She continued to swim recreationally and has been on a couple of Masters Swim Teams. Years ago she found she enjoyed long distance, open water swimming. In between having and raising kids, she completed the Chicago Big Shoulders 5k swim held in Lake Michigan in September three times and the 2.4 mile Madison Open Water Swim in Lake Monona. One of her best days was when she and her teenaged son swam together in the Swim to the Moon 1.2 mile open water swim in Michigan. Rebecca still swims laps as often as she can which goes to show that teaching your kids to swim is a gift that keeps on giving.

Rebecca and her husband Steve have three amazing kids: Patrick, Maddy and Katie, all great swimmers who attend Middleton High School. Rebecca enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, reading and cuddling with her Golden Retriever, Zinnia.