About the Coach

Julia Purrington is a USAT Certified Level I Coach and a USA Swimming Certified Coach. She is a former High School and Collegiate swimmer with over 15 years of competetive swimming experience. She has been coaching the local US Masters swim practice groupsince 2006. She also is the head coach of the Mount Vernon Country Club Makos summer club team and has been the assistant coach for the Evergreen Hurricanes year round swim team for the past 2 years.

Julia began competing in Triathlons in 2005 and has since competed in over 50 races ranging from Sprint Triathlons to Marathons and Ironman Triathlons. In 2007 and 2009 She was a member of Team USA and qualified to compete in the ITU Age Group World Championships for Short Course (Olympic Distance) Triathlon. in 2008 Julia was the top ranked athlete in her age group in the Rocky Mountain Region.

Julia was in a serious biking accident in August of 2009, but is recovering. She is not able to race, so her way to pour herself into sport is through her coaching. She has joined D3 Multisport coaching in Bouler, CO

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