About the Instructor
Instructor Stephen Fernandez grew up swimming summer league in Greenville, SC for Foxcroft swim team and the Team Greenville club teams. Between 1997-2001, he was a member of the College of Charleston Swim Team and served as the CofC assistant swim team coach for a year. He later became the head coach for the boys and girls James Island Charter varsity high school swim team for 18 seasons (2002-2019), during which time he was named the Region 7AAAA Coach of the year in 2011, 2014, and 2015. Fernandez was also a part of the CCPRC team that started the portable pool rural swim lesson program, that won the 2014 SCRPA Excellence in Programming for Charleston County's Rural Community Swim Lessons.