- Pilates
- Gym Workouts
- Committed to improving personal fitness through regular participation in endurance
- High-Intensity Interval Training
- Swimming
- Team Sports
- I participate in various sports activities for physical activity, camaraderie, and personal growth
- Passionate about balancing physical health with mental and emotional wellness
Jennifer Hoban
Suffolk,VA
Summary
Professional with experience in leading recreational programs. Demonstrates strong team collaboration and flexibility with changing needs, ensuring reliable and impactful results. Skilled in activity planning, safety protocols, and fostering inclusive environments. Known for effective communication and problem-solving abilities that drive successful program outcomes.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Personal Trainer/ Endurance Coach
YMCA-Suffolk Family Branch
08.2025 - Current
- Part-time Basis
Swim Instructor
Private Swimming Lessons with Sunsations
07.2024 - Current
- Contract basis for varying ages and levels teaching swimming. Most lessons are taught at the client’s home on an agreed upon schedule/frequency in the Hampton Roads area. Primary responsibilities are teaching survival skills and safety. Swimming skills are secondarily taught as the student progresses.
Private Endurance Coach
Finding Fast Again-self-employed
03.2020 - Current
- I am currently coaching a broad range of athletes: beginning to very advanced. First timers to nationally ranked via USAT or Ironman. Cyclists, runners, and weight loss or health and wellness also fill my roster. I coach both short course draft legal athletes as well as long course athletes with a roster cap at 40 athletes annually ages 30-65. My coaching entails: written programming with specificity to the athlete’s individual goals, periodization, resistance training and mobility, face to face help with swimming including underwater film as needed, cycling, running, transitioning, psychology, assessments, interfacing with sports med professionals, nutrition, and overall health and wellness.
Coach
Intro to Triathlon Instruction
01.2024 - 04.2024
- 10 week course with three instructional hours weekly, run, bike, swim to prepare beginners for their first attempt at completing a triathlon. Interval training on the treadmill or track when weather is favorable with some instruction on dynamic warmups, run drilling, form adjustment and understanding cardiovascular conditioning from a metabolic standpoint. The approach for cycling is similar. The approach is heart rate based but there is some discussion about learning to train with a power meter. Most of these sessions are located in the spin studio however, if weather permits, there will be some beginner level clinics at handling the bicycle safely. Swimming entails a great deal of beginner instruction, some video, and discussion of training methods, equipment, and building enough fitness to allow sustained efforts in preparation for open water swimming. Typically, Parker Recreation Center hosts a fall session from Oct-Dec and a winter session from Jan-March.
Assistant Coach
Performance Triathlon Camp
07.2023 - 07.2023
- Junior Elite Coach for ages 12-22. Camp was designed to assist draft-legal junior athletes seeking NCAA recruitment or furthering their athletic career ie earning a pro card, WCS qualifications, top USA rankings. Duties included giving instruction for strength and mobility conditioning, bike skills from beginner items such as mounting and dismounting to more advanced skills such as drafting and handling overlapping wheels, passing, emergency stopping, pool workouts, verbal communication. I also directed a four-part Mental Skills workshop, as well teaching proper warmup before track/run sessions with dynamic stretching and run drilling.
Personal Trainer/ Endurance Coach
Lifetime Fitness
12.2012 - 03.2020
- My tenure as a coach for Lifetime approached coaching with a “small group” format. One program for all that came at a certain scheduled hour. My time was limited to three times per week in groups of 5-15 people. I had limited time for individualized coaching. However, it made coaching more affordable for many while providing direction with swimming, cycling, running, and resistance training. Many of the athletes I coached at the time were beginners, learning the bases of endurance sport. The format worked for fostering relationships, building confidence, and getting people started. It had some limitations however, growing athletes to a more advanced level was difficult. In the final years, I began teaching spin classes with power-based methodology, performed metabolic testing, offered private one-on-one help at additional cost as well as holding clinics to bolster the program. Training and race nutrition was a separate and equally important function in both group and individual format. I started with 5 athletes in the first year (2012) and finished with well over 50 athletes annually in two years of building.
Head Coach
City of Englewood Age Group Swim Team
01.1993 - 01.1998
- Coaching athletes ages 8-18 in competitive club swimming. Organizing and scheduling daily practice time and swim meets on location as well as other facilities in the area. Keeping track of metrics throughout each swimmer’s career on the team, interfacing with parents, other coaches, officials, and the athletes. Facilitating volunteer help to successfully run events at the facility. I also would provide the local high school a two-week stroke clinic prior to their season beginning to help athletes who didn’t have the luxury of being a part of a club team.
Education
BS - Biological Sciences
Metropolitan State College of Denver
01.2004
Pre-Med
Trinity International University
01.1995
Skills
- Health and wellness
- Customer service skills
- Age-appropriate activities
- Computer skills
- Activity planning
- Activity coordination
- Program operation
- Safety standards implementation
- Sports background
- CPR certification
- Friendly, positive attitude
- Problem-solving abilities
- Time management
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Safety awareness
- Schedule management
Certification
- USAT Level 2-2014 Current (short and long course certified)
- USA Masters Swimming Level 1-2021 Current
- ISSA CPT-2012 Current
- NASM PES-2013 Current
- Precision Nutrition Level 1-2014 Current
- Training Peaks Level 1-2016 Current
Interests
Timeline
Personal Trainer/ Endurance Coach
YMCA-Suffolk Family Branch
08.2025 - Current
Swim Instructor
Private Swimming Lessons with Sunsations
07.2024 - Current
Coach
Intro to Triathlon Instruction
01.2024 - 04.2024
Assistant Coach
Performance Triathlon Camp
07.2023 - 07.2023
Private Endurance Coach
Finding Fast Again-self-employed
03.2020 - Current
Personal Trainer/ Endurance Coach
Lifetime Fitness
12.2012 - 03.2020
Head Coach
City of Englewood Age Group Swim Team
01.1993 - 01.1998
Pre-Med
Trinity International University
BS - Biological Sciences
Metropolitan State College of Denver
HOBBIES
Equestrian, Fine Arts, Writing
PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY
- With the emergence of Covid, I have found it to be pivotal to encourage athletes to consider why they choose to train and/or race. Health and wellness have a greater positive life-long impact than does the outcome of racing. While racing is fun, and rewarding, flipping the script to understand the commitment of training and racing is a tremendous metaphor for living life to its full potential. Adversity, perseverance, hard work, and determination are some of the skill sets that bring success and vitality to life. These same skill sets are critical for success both on and off the playing field as well as negotiating through life when the challenges that come without warning. My perception of coaching isn’t just the technical aspects of learning to swim well, bike well, run well, transition well but how to manage expectations, success or failure, and be prepared to give one’s best. My ultimate hope is that the sport of triathlon will leave positive impact that carries the torch for future interests and inspires others further downstream.
- I have been an avid swimmer first as a child, then runner and elite cyclist turned triathlete for a large part of my adult life beginning in my twenties. I also enjoyed being a two-sport scholar shipped collegiate athlete in volleyball and softball while taking some time away from endurance. I have enjoyed national level competition in both sports. I am currently a member of TEAM USA in triathlon with the privilege of traveling to Switzerland, Spain, Australia, and France for consecutive World Championship in triathlon. In 2020, I sustained a crash that led me on a two - year journey of recovering from a severe traumatic brain injury. Having survived a fall in 2007 from a 30 foot, being in remission from cancer since 2012, and this TBI, I come with a skill set that is unique. I believe I am better equipped at understanding how to overcome and rehabilitate serious set –backs and an attitude that overcoming big things is a part of life that prepares us for anything that may come our way. In 2021 I was able to resume competing again, achieving All American Ranking as well as earning Honorable Mention USA Master Athlete of the year in 2024. I also won the overall female title at Garmin Gravel Worlds in 2022 and 2023 in gravel cycling. While I continue to compete and coach "in sport," I have a strong desire to contribute at the grassroots level in movement for all ages, health and wellness, and creatively inspiring progression for further improvement. I believe having passion in sport, fitness, as well other interests, augment total body and mind health and happiness.