I grew up in Wyandotte, where I swam for the Wyandotte Wildcats Swim Club and my middle school and high school teams. I graduated from Wyandotte Roosevelt and went to Northern Michigan University, there I earned a B.S. in physics. I began coaching in high school. I spent four years as an assistant coach for the middle school swim team in Wyandotte. When we moved to Ypsilanti, I met an Otter's coach who got me in contact with Bud Dornbos, the then Ypsilanti Otters head coach. He hired me in the fall of '93. I have been with the Otters ever since, coaching everything from pups to what we now call the competitive group.  

In the summers I have dabbled in many other programs, including the Buhr Park sharks, Ann Arbor Masters Swim, and Ypsilanti's Rutherford Municipal Pool's swim club. I'm married to Eric Rudolph and we have one daughter, Bridgette.