Published: 11/15/2025
Josh: 1983 - 1997
Kendall: 1992-2002
When and how did you meet?
Kendall: We met on a blind date in 2010. We had a mutual family friend that didn't even realize we were both Dynamo swimmers and thought we should know each other, and she was right! We ended up naming one of our daughters (Madeline) after her.
Josh: We are unusual, perhaps even unique, among Dynamo couples in that we weren’t a couple at Dynamo. I’m 9 years older than Kendall so we didn’t even know each other at Dynamo, we met when she was 26 and I was 35 through a mutual friend of our mothers. So, swimming at Dynamo didn’t bring us together, but certainly having Dynamo in common helped us to connect and has always been a fun thing, even before our daughters started swimming at Dynamo.
Favorite or funniest or most embarrassing swimming memory:
Kendall: Funniest is one time it had actually snowed recently and we had practice outside in the DynaDome; I sneaked outside of the dome to pile a bunch of snow on a kickboard and we made snowballs to throw at our coach (Ed Spencer). Most embarrassing would be the time I stopped inside and got a Blizzard at Dairy Queen during the Dairy Queen loop run that we used to do for drylands. Favorite was our trip to California where we competed in Mission Viejo, ate delicious, giant homemade pancakes from the concession stand for breakfast, and then trained for a week after the meet out there. I also discovered where I wanted to go to college on that trip (UCLA, Go Bruins!)
Josh: I’m going to go with favorite for this one and I’m going to go way back. Okay, so when I was 12, I won state meet high point for 11-12 boys so I was a lock to qualify for the Zone Team, and I should have won 100 breast but I had a long (slow) finish and a Swim Atlanta swimmer caught me right at the finish and we tied. This presented an unusual situation because the winner of the 100 of each stroke automatically qualified for the Zone Team and while I was going to qualify on points, the Swim Atlanta swimmer was only going to make it if he was winner of the 100 breast. So, simple enough, in the minds of Swim Atlanta: put their swimmer on the team as the winner of the event. But the thing was that if I took that automatic qualifying spot, the swimmer who was going to qualify on point behind me was a Dynamo teammate, so the Dynamo coaches were not up for designating the Swim Atlanta swimmer as the event winner. So, we had a swim off. Now, this is why it was my favorite memory: back then our big long course meets were at Emory and I can still remember how many swimmers and coaches from Dynamo there were behind my lane and the same from Swim Atlanta for him. There’s that moment when your head is out of the water on your breast turn, and as we both hit that at the same time it was so loud. I cooked him on the way home, got my first ever Top 16 time standard (and thereby earned my first white swim cap, remember those?), and got my teammate on the Zone Team. It was awesome.
Your pinnacle/ peak performance:
Kendall: Mine was at 2001 at Sectionals getting my first National cut in the 200 fly.
Josh: I kept getting faster all the way through my college career so I don’t know that there is a single peak moment. But I can talk about something that was a peak at the time. The short background is that when I was a freshman in college I was at the University of Illinois and right at the end of the freshman team they eliminated the men’s swimming & diving team and I ultimately decided that I would train at Dynamo the next year while taking a break from school. I hadn’t swum as well as I had hoped as a freshman and I felt that Dynamo could get me back on the right track. And it did! The peak swim was 400 IM at Southern Regions hosted at Dynamo, I was going for my first National cut and with the awesome home crowd cheering me on, I got the cut by about a second.
How has your time at Dynamo impacted your life:
Kendall: I have many lifelong friends from Dynamo, and I'm grateful for the discipline, time management, and performance under pressure skills that it taught me. It allowed me to travel to many different places, learn teamwork, set goals, and also gave me the ability to swim at a college that I loved.
Where are you today?
Kendall: We live in Dunwoody, we love to travel as a family to explore new places, and we like to be involved at our church. I love to do group fitness classes at my gym for exercise. Josh and I own a small medical supplies business that serves the U.S.Virgin Islands, and we work together running that. I have yet to open water swim down there but am working up the courage to try!
Josh: We’re not too far from where we grew up. Kendall grew up in Brookhaven and I grew up in Dunwoody and Dunwoody is also where we live. And so let’s go ahead and dispense with this now: I still swim at Dynamo (well, it’s not “still” so much as it is “again,” but I’ve been doing it for 9 years now). These days I’m there a lot, sometimes 4, 5, even 6 mornings a week. I never thought I would swim for exercise, but here we are. I love being able to get a good workout in and then zip home in time to see our daughters for a few minutes before they leave for school. Whereas for so many years of my life I thought there was no way I would ever swim again, now I’m even more confident I won’t ever stop.
Do your kids swim?
Kendall: Yes, we have two daughters (Hallie, 12 and Madeline, 11) and they both swim at Dynamo!
Josh: As if I weren’t already at Dynamo a ton for my own swimming, I’m there even more shuttling our daughters to their practices. We have 2 daughters, and our younger one who is now 11 started swimming at Dynamo earlier this year and her big sister who is now 12 started swimming at Dynamo a year before that. They’re having a lot of fun and making friends, it’s so great.
