Emily Melina
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Emily Melina, winner of the 2011 Portland Bridge Swim. Photo by Randy Rasmussen
Emily Melina is an American open water swimmer and coach.
Swimming Highlights
- On 4 September 2024, she spoke at the ASCA World Clinic Women's Symposium together with Jennifer LaMont, Ellen Johnston, Micha Shaw, Abi Liu, and Carol Capitani.
- She won the 2011 Portland Bridge Swim, an 11-mile race through Portland, Oregon pioneered by Marisa Frieder. 2011 was the first year that the race was held after Frieder's solo marathon swim in 2010.
- She is the Head Coach of the Lake Oswego Swim Club since 2011. The team has more than tripled in size under her guidance and become a dominant club within the State, Region, and Country. Under her leadership, the team has swept all state meets for multiple years, broke countless LSC records, and had athletes win Junior Nationals, Sectionals, and Futures.
- She swam at UCLA and was a four-year varsity swimmer.
- She was a finalist at the Pac-10 Championships and a member of the All-Academic Pac-10 team multiple years.
- She was voted Most Inspirational and Hardest Working by her teammates.
- She has coached swimmers of all levels and developed swimmers into Olympic Trials qualifiers, USA Swimming All-Time Top 100 athletes, multiple National Top 10 Ranked athletes, National Junior Team athletes, and many kids who have gone on to swim in college, graduate, and find success beyond the pool.
- She serves on the American Swim Coaches Association Board of Directors and on staffs of the USA Swimming National Select Camp, Zone Select Camp, and National Diversity Select Camp.
- She served as the Head Coach of the National Diversity Select Camp and the Central Zone Select Camp.
- She was named Oregon Swimming Senior Coach of the year for 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 and has won the Oregon Swimming USAS Service Award. Currently serving as General Chair of Oregon Swimming as well as serving on the USA Swimming Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion National Council and USA Swimming Club Development Board.
External links
- Portland Bridge Swim
- Bridges Under Untroubled Water, The Portland Bridge Swim
- Bridge Over Untroubled Waters, Hopefully In 2015
- A Short List of Marathon Swims
- Open Water Swimming
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Lucky 13 In 2015 Portland Bridge Swim
- Swim Under Bridges Of Untroubled Waters
- 2018 U.S. Masters Swimming Open Water National Champs
