Natsuko was born and raised in Okinawa and graduated from a college in Hawaii where she learned English as a second language. When she came back to Okinawa she worked as an administrator at a public pool where she was introduced to Swim Life. She has attended Japanese “traditional” group swim lessons from her young age so it was an eye-opening experience to see the remarkable results Swim Life provides. 

As she worked with amazing Swim Life coaches at the pool for several years, she has watched so many children become happy and confident swimmers in just a few weeks and she realized how important it is to learn survival swim skills at a young age and how much it contributes to not only physical development but cognitive and emotional development.

She has completed more than 100 hours of hands-on training and an intensive academic curriculum and she is so excited and honored to be a part of Swim Life where she gets to educate children of all ages and skill levels in a way that is more effective than any other program.