Dave Leonard is in his tenth year as the Head Coach at Pro Club’s Pro Swimming swim team.  In that time the program has evolved into a nationally-recognized swimming power.  Since his arrival, the team has had its second Olympic Trials Qualifier; four US Open swimmers; two Summer Junior Nationals swimmers, including its first Finalist; twenty Futures qualifiers; and seventy different Sectionals Qualifiers.  Our swimmers have set a total of 120 out of 128 different individual Short Course Club Records, and 37 out of 38 relay records during his tenure. 

Dave is originally from South Burlington, Vermont, though his work in swimming has taken him all over the country.  Before a short stint at Wave Aquatics, Dave had been CEO and Head Coach at the Emmaus Aquatic Club and Emmaus High School Swim Teams.  While there, his Senior group had six swimmers qualified for Nationals in 7 events, earned 14 high school All American Awards, and won the Pennsylvania Girls State Championship (for large schools).  Before Emmaus, he was the Head Coach and Program Director of the Glens Falls YMCA Gators, a storied program with a 50-year history in New York State.  While there, Dave’s swimmers set 11 new club records, had their highest Men’s finish at the Spring YMCA National Championships and their second highest Combined Team’s finish at the Summer Long Course YMCA Nationals Championships in team history.

From 1999 to 2006 he was the Head Coach at the Bellevue Eastside Swim Team.  While there, the team doubled in size, added space at two other pools, established the team’s first website, broke 72 Club Records, and hosted the YMCA Regional Championships twice at the King County Aquatic Center.  Dave was also the head coach for Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving at St. Michael's College (NCAA Division II) from 1991-1998. While at St. Michael's, he earned the distinction of winning more meets and placing his teams higher at their New England Collegiate Championships than any other previous coach at the time.  In individual performances, his swimmers broke 35 different school records, averaging 12 new records per year over his seven-year tenure. 

As a swimmer himself, Dave started swimming at the Lake Champlain Swim Club in Vermont, and swam for DeAnza Cupertino Aquatics and Ladera Oaks Swim Club in California. In high school, he set four school records and was Team Captain for two years at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire. In College, he swam for St. Lawrence University in upstate New York while earning his bachelors in English with a minor in philosophy on a full Army ROTC scholarship.  Dave loves writing, kayaking, road-biking, and hiking with his wife Jessica.

Jackson started swimming competitively at Pro Club at the age of 8. During his time as a competitive swimmer, Jackson qualified for and competed in meets such as PNS Championships, Senior Sectionals, Futures, and Junior Nationals.

Jackson started coaching in 2019 and started coaching in Pro Club in 2024. He is an NASM certified personal trainer, and graduated from California Polytechnic State University with a degree in Biological Sciences. Jackson loves to help swimmers achieve their goals and grow both in and out of the water.

Alexa has been working at PRO since November 2015 and has been working in aquatics for 9 years. She is passionate about competitive swimming and helping young swimmers improve. 

“I love swimming. I love that, as a sport, it gives individual athletes the ability to focus on their own improvement but at the same time, it is an undeniably team oriented sport. Every single swimmer is part of the team. As a swimmer, especially as a club swimmer, I didn’t really appreciate this. There were times at meets that I didn’t really think that it mattered to the success of the team if I was there or not because there were so many swimmers that were older, and faster than me. But as a coach, I have come to see how wrong I was. How just one or two swimmers that aren’t necessarily the fastest can be the difference in being able to have one more relay, or one more person in an event which can make or break a swim meet. I absolutely love that dynamic. As a coach, I hope to make every single swimmer that I work with feel like they matter and feel like their success is important to me.”

Edilia has been swimming competitively since she was 7 years old. She spent 4 years at Bellevue Eastside ST before joining PRO Swimming at PRO Club. Throughout her swimming career, Edilia qualified and swam at Championship meets such as PNS Champs and 4A HS State Champs with Eastlake HS. During her competitive years, she valued technique and quality of swim in order to improve as a swimmer.

Edilia has been a swim instructor since 2019 and began coaching with PRO Swimming in 2021. She loves creating an understanding with swimmers on the importance of quality swimming, while also making space for swimmers to lean in a fun manner. With background knowledge in stretching, lifting, and psychology, Edilia hopes to help athletes become well-round and strong swimmers. 

Off the pool deck, Edilia like to promote a healthy lifestyle and enjoys powerlifting and open water swimming. When not being active, she also likes to work on cars. 

Teresa’s competitive coaching career spans over a decade working on-deck, and almost 20 years since starting her career in aquatics as a swim instructor. After graduating from Washington State University, she returned to her childhood swim team, Issaquah Swim Team, to become a coach. She grew as part of the program, eventually working to serve as the team's Assistant Head Coach and Operations Administrator. In her tenure with IST, Teresa coached all levels of athletes, from first-time participants to nationally ranked age group swimmers. With a proven track record of success, her athletes have placed first at championship meets ranging from PNS Champs to Age Group Zones. The team record board is full of swimmers Teresa spent years coaching. During her time in team leadership, IST returned to regularly placing in the top-5 at PNS Champs meets.

Following a break from coaching in order to have her second child, Teresa spent a brief time as a substitute coach for BCST and as the Head Swim Coach for the Overlake Otters, a Midlakes team in Medina. She is excited for this new chapter in her USA Swimming coaching career with PRO Swimming!

Zach is from the Seattle area and started swimming at the age of 3 years. At the age of 9 years, he started swimming competitively on the Pro Club Swim Team. During his time swimming at the Senior level, he had the opportunity to swim under four different coaches with vastly differing coaching styles. Due to the exposure to the different methods over many years, he learned significantly about swimming technique, training styles, and philosophies on the sport. Swimming with PRO also helped him to swim at many championship swim meets in the Pacific Northwest region including the Speedo Championship Series meets, PNS Championship meets, as well as 4A State with Woodinville High School.

Zach has been a swim instructor since 2012 and a coach on the Pro Club Swim Team since 2015. Zach loves seeing swimmers reach their goals and develop in swimming and he hopes to use his skills to help his students not only improve as swimmers but also learn life lessons through the sport. 

Kelsey enjoys working with children and adults alike, as there are unique differences with each group. She has taught swimming lessons for over 30 years in Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Her background includes teaching baby, youth, and adult lessons, as well as coaching swim team, beginner synchronized swimming, and beginning diving. In teaching at many different pools over the years, Kelsey has gained a great combination of ideas and creativity that pushes her clients to achieve their goals, regardless of their age or any obstacles they may face. When Kelsey’s not working with the swim team or in a swim lesson, you’re likely to find her in the water - boating, swimming, paddle boarding, or scuba diving - or with her face in a book.