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Camp Coaches

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  Ellie Monobe

  Camp Director

  In just her third season as the head coach of the Pepperdine women’s swimming and diving program, Ellie Monobe took the Waves to new heights as they won back-to-back PCSC championships in 2022 and 2023. She then guided the program to an MPSF championship in 2025. She is in her sixth year as head coach in 2025-26.

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  Ellie Monobe

  Camp Director

  Despite coming into a new position in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Monobe had a highly successful first season in 2020-21, leading the Waves to a second-place finish at the PCSC Championships while attaining championship performances in five individual events and four relays.
  
  The squad broke through in 2022 to win the program’s first-ever PCSC title with one individual champion and two relay victories. Seven school records were set during the season. Two divers went to NCAA Zone Qualifying and five swimmers competed at the National Invitational Championship.
  
  Monobe was named PCSC Coach of the Championship Meet in both 2021 and 2022.
  
  Monobe spent the previous four years (2017-20) at UC Santa Barbara under head coach Matt Macedo. She was promoted to associate head coach after her third season. She was responsible for designing training programs and practices, specifically for mid-distance, distance, stroke and IM training groups. She also the recruiting coordinator for both the men’s and women’s programs.
  
  During her UCSB tenure, the Gauchos won Mountain Pacific Sports Federation titles on the men’s side in 2017 and 2018, while the women turned in three second-place finishes. She helped produce a combined total of 42 individual or relay conference champions. The programs set 26 school records during her time there. Two student-athletes qualified for the 2018 NCAA Championships.
  
  Monobe was an assistant coach at UNLV during the 2015-16 season (helping the men tie for 35th place at the NCAA Championships) and at UMass during the 2014-15 season.
  
  She spent the 2013-14 school year as head coach of the Sun Valley Swim Team in Lafayette, Calif., while also serving as a graduate assistant in compliance in San Jose State, where she earned her master’s degree in kinesiology. While at SJSU, she was also the team manager for the Spartan women’s swimming and diving team.
  
  A native of Northern California, Monobe got her start in coaching at her alma mater, California, where she was an undergraduate assistant/volunteer assistant coach in 2011-12 while completing her degree in American studies.
  
  From 2007-11, Monobe was a four-year member of Cal’s women’s swimming team, which won NCAA championships in 2009 and 2011 and a Pacific-10 Conference title in 2009. She was a team captain as a senior and won the program’s Coach’s Award in 2009 and 2011.
  

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  Kristyn Deckard

  Head Coach/Counselor

  Kristyn Deckard is in her fourth season as a Pepperdine women's swimming assistant coach in 2023-24. Deckard helped the Waves win their first-ever PCSC championship in 2022.

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  Kristyn Deckard

  Head Coach/Counselor

  Deckard was previously an assistant women’s coach at San Diego Mesa College, where she focused on recruiting and planning workouts. Prior to her time at Mesa College, Deckard had two stints as a volunteer assistant coach at San Diego during the 2015-16 and the 2019-20 seasons. She specialized in the mid-distance and long sprint groups at USD.
  
  Before joining Pepperdine, Deckard had nearly a decade of coaching experience in the sport, ranging from the club teams all the way up to the national level. She had her first experience working with Team USA as a volunteer manager in October 2017, in which she managed the College Challenge meet for USA Swimming. In August 2018, Deckard was a volunteer manager for USA Swimming during the Jr. Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, held in Fiji.
  
  Throughout her collegiate coaching experience, Deckard was also an assistant and a lead coach for North Coast Aquatics, a club team based out of San Diego, from 2014-20. She was also a swim instructor at SwimLabs San Diego from 2014-19, where she used video analysis to help swimmers and triathletes improve their technique.
  
  A native of Bend, Oregon, Deckard won three state titles at Mountain View High School — including setting a state record in the 100 backstroke as a senior — before swimming at the University of San Diego from 2009-13. Deckard graduated from USD in 2013 with a bachelor’s in business administration. She held school records in the 100 and 200 back, plus the 200 and 400 medley relays.