Our Outstanding Team

“Over 2 decades ago I started taking my first child to Superfish Swim School when he was 6 months old. He loved his lessons and it gave me great happiness to see him attaining life skills whilst excelling from ‘learn to swim’ to ‘squad’. Three more children followed and they have all been through the Superfish Program with my youngest two still enrolled. If it wasn’t for Superfish, my eldest son would never have achieved ‘Age Champion’ at primary school along with my youngest son making it into ‘Districts’.”
Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Business with her background being in retail and working with children. She is very excited to have made the career move into the swimming industry, and as a business, Superfish feels more like a supportive family. She loves working with kids, watching them grow and learn and gains great satisfaction seeing them excel through the program and watching their parents glow with excitement from their child’s progression.

When Mel had her son she knew she wanted to give him the opportunity to learn to be safe in the water, before developing technique and skills for life, so at five months old she enrolled him in infant swimming classes. For the last 16 years has been on the swim parent journey all the way to state level competitive swimming with him. It was watching one of his lessons over ten and a half years ago that she had the thought to enrol in a swim instructor course. She was initially drawn to infant and toddler drowning prevention but in her many years of teaching, she has enjoyed teaching all levels to squad.
Because of this passion for drowning prevention Mel made the move to Superfish, the Learn to Swim Experts, in January 2019 with appreciation for their emphasis on technique first for stroke development.

Teo’s competitive swimming career started when he was a 9 year old and continued to age 16. He was a butterfly swimmer for his club at a state level. In 2010, astounded by his teachers and their teaching abilities, he decided to start to work as a junior teacher and since then has progressed through a number of swim schools and gained experience teaching students in different age groups. In 2018, after moving to Australia to study a Master’s in Biotechnology, Teo worked at Monash University’s swimming pool as swimming instructor and completed Austswim courses for learn to swim teaching, as well as teaching for adults. Teo moved to Queensland in October 2020 and started his Superfish journey.

Kerryn’s passion for working with children began with a career as a Nanny on the Gold Coast whilst studying Childcare, she gained experience in the UK as a childcare Group Leader for many years, working her way up to Centre Director before a career change into the Learn to Swim industry.
“SUPERFISH ignited a passion for Learn to Swim, drowning prevention and advanced stroke correction techniques. I’m overwhelmed by the appreciation families have for their child’s swimming progression, there is nothing more satisfying than watching children move up through our program from Dippas, Nippas, Flippas to Squads. The relationships I have formed with these families and children will be forever one of the biggest accomplishments in my career. There isn’t a day at work where I don’t receive a heartfelt thank you from a customer for teaching their child a potentially life saving skill.”

Cheryl Lee has always been an active participant in sports, consistently representing her region and state in various competitions. With a Bachelor of Human Movements under her belt, she took on the role of sports officer at James Cook University, simultaneously serving as the Assistant Manager of the Fitness Centre and Pool facilities. During this period, she pursued further education and successfully completed a Bachelor of Science degree. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, she also took on the role of coaching a swimming squad and teaching a learn-to-swim program specifically tailored for disabled children.

Her involvement extended beyond the university campus. She played a key role in the design and implementation of the cardio studio at the University of Queensland and subsequently assumed the position of Manager at their fitness centre. Throughout her journey, her passion for sports remained unwavering, leading her to become the state and Australian martial arts champion in her category in 1998.