Lake Forest College Women's Swimming

Tashlitsky graduated from Lake Forest College in 2000 and returned to his alma mater as head swimming & diving coach and aquatics director in 2008. Tashlitsky was part of the Foresters' Midwest Conference Championship teams in 1997, 1998, and 1999. He then worked for four years with the Barrington Swim Club in Barrington, Illinois, and served as the club's Head Senior Coach for the final two years. He also assisted with the Barrington High School Swim Team and the Barrington Swim Clubs age group program. Tashlitsky then moved to California and was the senior coach at Irvine Novaquatics, a nationally-recognized United States Gold Medal Swim Club. He was also the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Soka University of America. Tashlitsky resides in Lake Forest.

Hoeper as an assistant swimming and diving coach at Lake Forest College. Aside from her coaching duties, she also works as the recruiting coordinator for both domestic and international students. Hoeper helped lead the Forester men to a runner-up finish at the 2016 Midwest Conference Championships while the women placed fourth. The teams combined to claim a dozen individual and relay conference titles, make 20 new entries on the program's top-five list in each event, and set five school records. As coach of the sprint group, Hoeper directed Travis Johnson to a conference title in the 50-freestyle and the Forester men to a championship in the 200-freestyle relay. Prior to coaching at Lake Forest College, Hoeper worked as both a swim instructor and age group coach in Chicago and Southern Oregon. Hoeper graduated from Lake Forest in 2013 after four successful years on the swimming and diving team. She is the fourth athlete in the programs history to claim 17 career Midwest Conference titles, including seven in individual events. Additionally, she was awarded Forester Athlete of the Week in 2010, MWC Performer of the Week in 2011, and was an Academic All-MWC honoree in each of her three years of award eligibility. She held school and conference records and still owns times in the 50-freestyle and 100-freestyle that rank among the top five in school history. She helped the Forester women earn a conference championship in 2012 and the team placed second in the league in each of her other three seasons. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in communication with minors in English and anthropology. She is currently working towards her Master's Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Roosevelt University.

O'Brien as the Foresters' diving coach. Under O'Brien's direction, Heath Ogawa was an All-American as a freshman in 2016, placing eighth at the NCAA Division III Championship Meet off the 1-meter board. He was also 13th in the 3-meter competition. Ogawa set program records in both events in 6-dive and 11-dive formats. O'Brien also coached Christina Pekar to three consecutive appearances in the NCAA Championships and she earned All-American honors in both diving events in 2015. In addition to Ogawa and Pekar, three other Foresters have qualified to compete at the NCAA Central Region Diving Meet in the last four seasons. Ogawa won a Midwest Conference title and set the league's 3-meter diving record in 2016, giving Lake Forest nine diving titles in the last five years. Pekar was named MWC Women's Diver of the Meet in 2013, 2014, and 2015 after teammate Sam Gardner earned the award in 2012. Individual Foresters have placed among the top three at the conference meet 36 times in O'Brien's first eight seasons. They have also earned 688 points at the last five conference meets, including 164 by the women alone in 2012 when the team captured an MWC title. O'Brien has also been co-head coach at the Windy City Diving Club since 1997. The club attracts high level divers from all over the Chicago area and its most famous pupil is Christina Loukas, a United States Olympian on the 3-meter board in 2008 and 2012. She also works with the Arlington Heights Park District and Palatine Park District, where the Windy City Diving Club trains. O'Brien was a diving coach at Palatine High School for 29 years and directed athletes to 40 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Meet appearances, 11 trips to the state finals, five IHSA sectional championships, four conference titles, and two National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association All-American performances. O'Brien was named IHSA Diving Coach of the Year in 2002 and was inducted into the Palatine High School Hall of Fame in 2014. She has served as a diving judge at the state meet several times and is a certified FINA international judge. She also coached the divers for four seasons at Harper College, where her athletes made several appearances at the National Junior College Athletic Association meet and claimed a national title. Among her other coaching and instructing experience are 10 years at the Schaumburg Diving Academy and stints with the Palatine Park District and Inverness Country Club. O'Brien graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in education in 1983 after making three appearances at the national meet. She placed among the top three at the Big Eight Conference Championship Meet in one or both diving events each of her four seasons on the team. She was also a two-time IHSA State Meet finalist in both diving and gymnastics representing Arlington High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois.