2020 Inducted into the New England LMSC Hall of Fame (Contributor)
1993-1994 NELMSC Chair
1991-1993 NEM President
1988 & 1989 Meet Director, NE SCY Championships at Bentley
1986-1989 Coordinator, NEM Workouts and Clinics
1983, 1984 & 1985 Meet Director, UMass Boston
1982-1983 Coach, UMass Boston NEM workouts
1980 December NEM News Mini-Profile of Ann Yelmokas
USMS Records
Pool – 1 lifetime relay
USMS Top Ten – 12 individual, 15 relay
Club: New England Masters (NEM)
Ann’s swimming career started when she took an advanced beginner’s swimming class as an undergrad at Boston University. At that time, she was not able to swim with her face in the water. By her junior year, she was a member of the varsity swim team, swimming the freestyle and breaststroke events. She was inspired to join New England Masters after reading Phil Whitten’s Parade Magazine article about Masters swimming that featured Ted Haartz.
After graduating with a B.S. in physical education, health, and recreation, Ann coached high school and age group teams from 1977 through 1984. Ann was the coach for both the Men’s and Women’s swimming teams at MIT from 1982 through 1986. She was then hired by Simmons College as their first aquatic director when they built their first ever recreation center and initiated the first women’s swimming and diving team (1989-1995).
Ann left coaching at the competitive college level for three years to become the Boston University assistant director of recreation and aquatics (1986-1989). Moving to an administrative teaching role enabled her to have more influence on course offerings, training staff, and providing education series for university students, faculty, and staff. She was also able to provide teaching workshops for regional fitness instructors.
Over the years, Ann coached a number of Masters workouts including Tufts (Sunday mornings), UMass Boston (started coached workouts and served as a mini-meet director), Boston University (expanded, coached and supervised Masters workout program for members internal and external to B.U.), and Simmons College (started the Masters workout program).
Ann served as the President of NEM from 1991 through 1993 and the NELMSC Chair from 1993 through 1994.
During her time as a member of NEM, Ann also served as the NEM workout group information contact person and NEM Mini-Meet Director of many meets at UMass Boston, MIT, and Simmons. She also organized and coached a number of day-long stroke and sports medicine clinics at MIT that featured the best of NE college coaches, including John Benedick, Nancy Bigelow, Don Megerle, Bruce Hutchinson, Hank Dunbar, and Charlie Butt, to name a few. Ann hosted the MIT summer stoke clinic series (1983 through 1986) with John Benedick.
Ann competed in many, many events over the years including mini-meets, 1-hour and postal swims, regional championships, USMS short- and long-course championships, World Games, and open water swims.
Ann has a M.S. in athletic training from Northeastern and a Ph.D. in Nutrition Science; Specialization: Physiology, Exercise Physiology from Tufts. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Obesity Science and Genetics at Tufts 2002-2006. She is also a licensed dietitian nutritionist. Currently she is working as an independent health and education consultant.