Heidi Brown, Team Admin
Kylie Engstrom, Assistant Coach
Kylie has been swimming since she was 8 years old. She grew up in Wisconsin and swam on a small club team growing up and in high school. After high school, Kylie swam at the University of Northern Iowa from 2016 to 2020. Her specialties were distance freestyle (500, 100, mile), 200 freestyle, and 400 IM.
Kylie taught swim lessons from high school on and helped coach the UNI girls swim team during her 5th year there.
Kylie is a high school biology teacher at Southeast Polk High School. Kylie and her husband, George live in Waukee. They love to spend time cooking together, spending time with family, and playing with their coonhound/german shepherd mix, Martha
Anne Marie Johnson, Assistant Coach
Anne Marie has been teaching swim lessons and coaching for the last 23 years. Her favorite race is the 50 yard freestyle. She has 3 girls and a goldendoodle that keep her busy. When she's not on the pool deck you can find her working in HR and cheering on her girls in their activities.
Kristin Pals, Assistant Coach
Kristin started swimming at around the age of 5. After participating in water polo and two years of swim team in high school, she swam collegiately at Augustana College her freshman year. The skills, accomplishments and team memories made still help inspire her to this day.
Kristin started her aquatics career at Life Time in December 2021, coaching evening Master's classes. She then began lifeguarding, teaching kids' swim lessons and supervising. She now mainly coaches the Bronze and Silver/Gold teams.
Kristin is very excited I get the chance to coach here at Lifetime! She wants her swimmers to know that it's not the times they produce or winning their heat that matter the most, but it's the good habits they start now that will help them as they progress in swimming.
Ashley Tapps, Kids and Aquatics Lead
Ashley has worked at Life Time as the Kids Leader since 2017 and as the Kids and Aquatics Lead since 2023. She graduated from the University of Iowa with an undergraduate degree in business and a masters degree in sports and recreation. She has over 20 years of experience teaching and coaching dance, swim lessons, kids sports and fitness classes, and adult fitness classes. She is happy to use both her backgrounds of kids recreation programming and aquatics in her role as the Kids and Aquatics Lead, and she is excited to enhance and grow our swim team program in an administrative role alongside Life Time's very talented swim team coaching staff!
Anna Wall, Assistant Coach
Leslie Winnett, Assistant Coach
Leslie is an enthusiastic advocate for the sport of swimming. Coach Leslie started swimming competitively at five years old. She swam for the IWSC/AAU and is a collegiate letterwinner for Iowa State University. She has coached and mentored swim teams for over 30 years assisting in establishing high school swimming in northwest Iowa and was chosen as the 2011 YMCA Volunteer of the Year as a national YMCA swim official and coach.
Coach Leslie is a certified USA Swimming National Two Official, YMCA Swimming National Official, and USA Swimming Coach. In her coaching years, she has been honored to coach swimmers on a local, state, regional, and national basis from intro swimmers to national professional swimmers.
In addition to coaching, Coach Leslie has worked at Aureon Telecommunications for more than 35 years as a systems support/telecom engineer. She loves spending her free time with her husband and children enjoying life. Coach Leslie and Life Time is elated to have you a part of our wellness community!
