10/06/2026
COACH SPOTLIGHT: Assistant Coach Emily Magoc
Emily started swimming at age 4 and swam all throughout college, co-captaining her division III women’s team for 2 years. There, she built her love of swimming long and swimming far - pacing is her thing! After college, she started open water swimming longer races like 5 and 10k and loved it all.
She started my coaching career doing lots and lots of swim lessons, then coached for a USA team outside of Detroit during and after her masters program. She came back to Pittsburgh for nursing school and once she became a nurse, swimming seemed to be in the rearview mirror. But she missed the smell of chlorine, so she started swimming for the Flying Fish Heads. There she was introduced to the KW family in the fall of 2024 and here she is, predominantly working with the Bronze and Silver groups!
Outside the pool, you can find her hiking with her dog Maya, traveling with her husband, playing with her baby niece, riding her bike, going to baseball games, or baking cupcakes and cookies.
She firmly believes that there is so much more to swimming than just swimming - the comradery; the time management and organizational skills; the challenge, both physical and mental - and she is honored to be able to be apart of these kids’ journeys to finding what swimming can do for them, in and out of the pool.
