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John came from a competitive swimming and running background. He was a Pennsylvania state champion in high school swimming and all-district in cross country. John went on to run for one year in college, but continued to swim for all 4 years at Cornell University. At Cornell, John was a 4-time hardest worker and a 1-time MVP of the swim team.

During his college days and beyond, John found his niche in the sport of open water swimming. Aside from working for 10 years on the Atlantic City Beach Patrol, making numerous rescues, and winning numerous lifeguard races, he also had amazing success at the National and International levels. John was a 5-time US National champion in distances ranging from 10K up to 25K. He was a 7-time National team member and has competed at a wide variety of races including Nationals, Olympic trials, Pan Ams, Pan Pacs, World Cups, and World Championships. He has been competing at local open water races since 1990, attended his first Open Water Nationals in 1997, and most recently represented the USA in the 25K at World Championships in 2008. There were many swimmers out there with more raw speed in the pool, but very few could match his experience, endurance, tactics, and innate sense of finding the fastest, most efficient way to finish an open water race. From short races to marathons, flat lake swims to rough ocean or turbulent river swims, John Kenny is the most experienced open water swimmer in the United States, if not the world. Other coaches in the triathlon realm claiming to be “open water experts” do not come close.

Beginning in 2005, John began to race professionally as a triathlete. Although it took him a while to develop his cycling skills, he has recently begun to experience more success in multisport. Aside from winning many swim primes at major races such as 70.3 races and Lifetime Fitness races, John is almost always the first out of the water, even at the highest level of the sport.

Erin has been swimming since she was 8 years old on her local swim team. Soon after, she found a love for swimming open water in the lakes of her summer Girl Scout camps. Erin began lifeguarding, teaching swim lessons, and coaching for her pool and swim team during high school. In college and beyond, she continued to swim regularly for fitness.

As a new mom in 2011, Erin started taking group workout classes geared toward new moms and discovered her passion in living and promoting a healthy lifestyle. Later she started her own fitness business with FIT4MOM, teaching pre- and post-natal fitness to new moms.

More recently, Erin began training and competing in triathlon events. She first started swimming with French Creek Racing in 2021 and began coaching with them in 2022. Erin has completed several sprint and olympic distance triathlons, and one 70.3 distance in North Carolina. She has several more 70.3 races planned, with a goal of completing a full Ironman in 2026.

Erin is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer and NASM Certified Sports Nutrition Coach specializing in strength conditioning and nutrition for endurance athletes. She is also a USAT Certified Triathlon Coach and USMS Certified Swim Coach.

Erin's goal is to give you a program that empowers you to honor the fitness journey you are on, celebrate your victories, and make you feel better than you were yesterday.

USAT Level 1 Triathlon Coach

USMS Level 1 Swim Coach

ACE® Certified Personal Trainer & Fitness Nutrition Specialist

NASM® Certified Sports Nutrition Coach

CETI® Certified Cancer Exercise Specialist

Wendy is a life long swimmer with her love of the sport starting when she was 7 years swimming on Maplewood swim team in Bucks County. Wendy swam for William Tennent high school. Wendy graduated from Temple University in 1990 with her degree in physical therapy. As soon as she was finished college she joined US master swimming and became an accomplished triathlete. In 1992 she moved to Arizona and swam at University of Arizona Masters and eventually assisted coach at Tucson YMCA. Wendy moved back to PA in 2005 and was a successful Triahlete qualifying for Age Group Nationals 10 years in a row and attended Nationals in Vermont. She has completed 70.3 Ironman 5 years in a row. Wendy also was a successful runner competing in multiple road races and trail events.Wendy’s passion is swimming and coaching at French Creek! She loves coaching all levels and help each swimmer achieve their highest level!

Rob has coached swimmers of all levels from beginners to Olympians and everyone in between. He started coaching as a Graduate Assistant Coach at the University of South Carolina in the 1980s after an All American career as a Gamecock swimmer. Rob is a racing and technique expert and also coaches the mental aspect of the sport for athletes of all ages and all skill levels. Rob will work to understand your goals and will help you achieve them as a swimmer. If you know a triathlete or swimmer struggling to get faster or trying build endurance for competing, hitting your Ironman goals, or to lose weight or to just have fun with learning better technique, book some time with Coach Rob!

Coach Barry has been in or around water since joining his first swim team as an age grouper at the local YMCA in Northeastern Pennsylvania. His swimming career continued through high school where he was team co-captain and a district champion and later as a member of the West Chester University team. After college, he remained involved as a master swimmer and ocean lifeguard where he competed in beach competitions and numerous open water challenges including the prestigious 4.4-Mile Great Chesapeake Bay Swim. Coach Barry is a USA Swimming member coach with extensive experience working with athletes aged 6-years and older. His resume includes 10 years as Head Coach at the West Chester Area YMCA, Zone Team Coach; Middle Atlantic Swimming, Assistant Coach; Life Time Philly Aquatics. Coach Barry has led teams and individual swimmers to the podium at regional, state, and national competitions in YMCA/USA competitions and has trained multiple top six finishers at PIAA High School Swimming and Eastern Scholastic Championships. A student of the sport, Coach Barry’s technique-driven approach focuses on developing proper stroke mechanics to help swimmers find fitness faster so they can train more efficiently and achieve their personal goals.

As a toddler and preschooler, Sue lived on a Wisconsin lake and never wanted to get out of the water, even when she was shivering and blue. She began competitive swimming at age 10 as a Waukesha Water Rat and swam through high school where she qualified for the State Competition all four years, broke school records, was awarded All Conference Swimmer, and swam at Long Course Junior Nationals. A shoulder injury ended intensive training at the end of her senior year of high school (coached 8 & Unders while healing from surgery) so she played Club Water Polo at the University of Wisconsin. She completed several aquatic trainings in college (lifeguard training, lifeguard instructor training, water safety instructor, water safety instructor training). Sue spent several years as a lifeguard in pools, lakes, and in the Puget Sound. She was Head Lifeguard at the University of Wisconsin where she ran a video stroke clinic, Waterfront Director in charge of a fleet of kayaks and sailboats in the San Juan Islands, and Aquatic Supervisor on Lake Washington in charge of a fleet of sailboats and canoes. Sue started Master’s swimming in her 30’s and first swam with FCR in 2020. She got certified as a USA Stroke & Turn Official in 2020 and is lifeguard and USMS Coaching certified. Sue enjoys open water distance swimming and kayaking.