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U.S. Masters Swimming Fitness Award

Recipient:	Lisa A Ward
Year:	2015
LMSC:	Pacific

and she had been a member of Walnut Creek Masters (WCM) since 1996. In 2010, her swim coach, Kerry O’Brien, asked her to start a Masters team in the nearby senior community neighborhood of Rossmoor. Most of the members were in their 70’s and 80’s, and most of the members never competed. Lisa ran the swimming instruction classes at the senior community and she held a morning session aimed at triathletes in the area. With Lisa as their coach and swim instructor, the team thrived and in 2014, she received the USMS Kerry O’Brien Coaches Award and in 2015, one of her swimmers, Ann Hirsch, was inducted into MISHOF. In addition to coaching swimming, Lisa was a yoga and fitness instructor and she introduced yoga and strength conditioning classes to the WCM team.