The Coaches

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 has been a Team Danskin Training Coach since 2005.

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 three children. Her daughter Nora (age 12) is an aspiring triathlete who currently volunteers at all the races in which her mother competes. Janice’s passion for triathlons has also spread to her husband and two teenage 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.