Jessica Padilla joined as an assistant for the Oberlin College swimming and diving team at the beginning of the 2018-19 season.
Before Oberlin, Padilla was an assistant coach at Elyria Catholic High School. On the Panthers staff she worked with the head coach to developed training regimens and monitored practices and swim meets.
Prior to coaching, she was a pool manager at the Lorain country Metroparks and Greater Cleveland YMCA. As a pool manager she supervised/trained lifeguards, directed swim lessons, managed in-services to ensure lifeguards’ skills and that the facility operated efficiently according to standards.
She was a competitive swimmer through high school and continued to swim in college on the club team at Ohio State University.
Padilla earned bachelor’s of science and master of science in chemical engineering from Cleveland State University.
