The Coaches
About Team Training New England
Beginning in 2005, Team Training New England (TTNE) has been preparing and empowering women – from the novice to the more experienced athlete –to compete in sprint distance triathlons and other challenging events.
Team Training New England’s goal is to help everyone experience the benefits of incorporating fitness and training into their already busy and full lives. Setting goals, meeting and training with like-minded people for a specific event creates an incredible atmosphere of camaraderie and support. This experience is life-changing not only for the individual athlete, but for everyone in their lives!
We began as an informal group of 20 female friends and family members, TTNE has grown into a large network of like-minded athletes who have successfully completed at least one triathlon (many have gone on to do more). Once these athletes have been “bitten by the TRI bug” there is no stopping them. Feeling strong and fit is their motivation to keep working.
Due to consistent inquiries and the nature of our programming, we have decided to open our services to men. Our focus will continue to be on the beginner triathlon participant.
Lynne Tapper
Sports and fitness has been Lynne’s calling for well over 20 years. Her passion for fitness and competition began in earnest when she was a freshman at Connecticut College. She was a member of the women’s crew team for four years and the women’s squash team for one year. She was also a four-year member of the Student Athletic Advisory Board.
Lynne has been competing in marathons and other running distances since 1989. She started participating in the Danskin Women’s Triathlon in 1993. One her life’s goals is to share her enthusiasm for sports and fitness with everyone she meets by encouraging them to live a healthy, fit lifestyle by incorporating fitness and sport into their everyday lives. In 2004 Lynne coached and coordinated her entire extended family (from her mother to her 2nd cousin) through training and participating in the Webster, MA Danskin Women’s Triathlon!
Lynne is also a professional organizer and event planner in the Greater Hartford area. Her business, Seize the DazeSM, specializes in helping new parents find powerful and simple techniques and tools to ease the chaos that accompanies the arrival of a baby. She is the author, with her husband, of baby daze®: An organizer for tracking your baby’s first few months. She is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) and the New York and Connecticut local chapters.
Lynne resides in West Hartford, CT with her husband and two children.
Janice Cohen
Janice is committed to the empowerment of girls and women through physical fitness and sports. As an undergraduate at Georgetown University she began developing her running and swimming skills. She has been an exercise addict for over 30 years and on several continents.
Janice’s enthusiasm and passion for triathlons began the day she started training for her first triathlon in 2004. She shares her joy for the sport with every team member. She has completed both sprint and olympic distance triathlons since that time.
Her long term personal commitment to the practice and promotion of yoga and meditation has been supported by completion of a one year teacher training program in Northampton, MA, and graduate work at Wesleyan University in Hatha Yoga. She brings her knowledge of the mind/body connection to every workout.
Janice resides in West Hartford, CT with her husband and has three children. Janice’s passion for triathlons has also spread to her husband and two sons who have all participated in sprint distance triathlons.
Before moving back to CT, Janice worked for the Spanish Embassy in Washington, DC, and for a multi-national corporation in Madrid, Spain.
