Courtesy: Barry Athletics
MIAMI SHORES, Fla.– Olga Yasianovich joined the men’s & women’s swimming staff in the summer of 2024 as assistant swim coach.
She comes to Miami Shores after serving as the developmental program coordinator at United SwimClub in Tallahassee, Fla. She managed a group of over 150 swimmers with a staff of three other coaches, building the athletes from the developmental level all the way up to collegiate swimmers. She increased the number of Top-10 finished at Florida Age Groups Swimming competitions with a 30 percent improvement in all strokes, dives and turns and 25 percent speed improvement among athletes under 16 within one year.
Yasianovich is originally from Belarus and has been in and around competitive swimming since she was ten years old. She swam in the Minsk State Regional Vocational School of Olympic Reserve and she won numerous medals at the Belarus National Championships. After graduating from Vocational School, she continued her swimming by doing Finswimming, where she won medals in several World Cups.
Her international experience began in 2017. One of her protégés, Anastasiya Shkurdai, participated in the Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo and again in 2024 in Paris. She place eighth in the 100M butterfly.
From 2017 to 2022, she worked as an assistant coach at Energy Standard Swimming Club in Belek, Turkey, which won the International Swimming League championships in 2019 and 2021.
She earned her Bachelors of Sports from the Belarusian State University of Physical Culture in 2013.