Hilde Kjekstad

Hilde, a current Darien YMCA Masters Swimmer and a 1991 graduate of St John University in New York, starts her 5th year of coaching with the Piranhas.   She was a scholarship swimmer at St. Johns in New York and graduated with a degree in Finance. 

She is currently the COO of Helicopter Flight Services and an accomplished Masters swimmer.  Hilde has qualified for the Masters World Championship three times and was a double silver medalist at the Norwegian Masters National in 2015. 

She currently resides in Darien with her husband John, and sons Andreas and Nicholas.