COACHES
LAELLE BROVOLD
Dynamo 2
ANISA CRYDERMAN
Dynamite
JORGE FERNANDEZ
Seniors & High School Performance
TRISTAN CROSS
Head Coach
& Silvers
KELLY WEDERQUIST
Dynamo 1, Adaptive, Summer Programs
JASON WEDERQUIST
Blues
COACHES
Falfins’ dedicated coaches, with over 100 years combined experience, are committed to helping their athletes reach their goals and stretch beyond them. As a coaching staff, we believe in accountability and personal responsibility. As swimmers progress through our program, we encourage increasing ownership of their performance both in practice and in competition. The coaches and athletes are a team, working together to produce not only successful swimmers, but also successful human beings.
Former General Chairman, Colorado Swimming
Tristan Cross, life long swimmer and Colorado native, is an enthusiatic and dedicated age group coach. In 2004, Falfins hired Tristan for his first coaching job, Dynamos and Blues. This experience developed into a passion for coaching and turned a job into a lifelong career. After 3 1/2 years of coaching for Falfins, Tristan was hired as Head Age Group Coach by Cheyenne Mountain Aquatics. After 5 years and a lot of success with CMA, Tristan joined the PEAK Swim Team. As the Head Age Group Coach at PEAK Swim Team, he grew the team from 10 to 75 swimmers.. After 3 1/2 fantastic years at PEAK, Falsins brought Tristan back, where he has been coaching since 2003. During his 20 years of coaching in Colorado, Tristan has grown as a coach and learned from some of the best coaches in the sport. He is extremely excited to be back home at Falfins Swimming!
As Falfins Head Coach, Tristan’s goal is to help further the success of our athletes, our team and our LSC. Tristan is heavily involved in the elite level of Colorado Swimming. He has been selected to be a coach eleven times for Team Colorado, seven times for the Mid-West All-Star Meets (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018), and seven times for the Western Zone Championship Meets (2011,2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018). In the fall of 2016, Tristan was elected as the Age Group Vice-Chair for Colorado Swimming. And in the fall of 2018, he was re-elected to another two year term as Colorado Swimming Age Group Vice-Chair. In addition to coaching with Falfins Swimming, he oversaw all age group swimming for Colorado and was the Head Coach of Team Colorado for the Midwest All Star meet, as well as the Western Zone Age Group Championships. In October 2019 and 2021 Coach Tristan was elected General Chairman of Colorado Swimming, and in 2024 he was appointed to the USA Swimming National LSC Development Committee. After working with the top coaches and swimmers in Colorado and the US, Tristan is ready to take Falfins Swimming to the next level!
Practice: 5-7 times / week
TRISTAN CROSS | HEAD COACH | SILVERS
JORGE FERNANDEZ | SENIORS & HSP
Jorge Fernandez was born and raised in Santiago, Chile. He moved to the United States in March, 1974.
Jorge is an ASCA Level 5 coach and has 33 years of coaching experience. He has been involved in athletics since the age of 10, mainly in cycling and swimming.
Jorge started coaching while attending the University of Colorado, Boulder, in the mid 1980’s (B.S. Kinesiology; B.A. Spanish). He continued to coach in the 90’s and joined the Greenwood Tiger Sharks in 1992 as head coach. While Jorge was Greenwood masters coach and head coach, he was awarded Colorado Sr. Coach of the Year (1996, 2000, 2003). During his time at GTS, he also coached Sectional Champions, Junior National Champions, Sr. National qualifiers, Olympic Trial Qualifiers, one Olympic Triathlete (2000 Sydney Olympic Games) and placed athletes on the Jr. National Team.
Jorge has also been assistant coach at Jr. Team Camp in San Diego, California, and Zone Select Camps at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. After being at GTS Jorge became head coach of the legendary Tacoma Swim Club, where he continued his successes. Due to his father’s health issues he decided to return to Colorado to be at his side.
Continuing his coaching career, Jorge joined Falfins Swim Team in September 2015 as the Lead Sr. Coach and has focused on developing athletes from the state level to the national level.
When not coaching, Jorge can be found on two wheels as a category 2 competitive Masters road cyclist.
Practice: 5-8 times / week
JASON WEDERQUIST | BLUES
Jason Wederquist has been involved with Colorado Springs swimming for over 40 years as a swimmer, a coach, and a swim-parent. Jason swam competitively for 10 years on both year-round and summer-club programs, and he finished competing as a NCAA Division I swimmer. He started coaching as a local seasonal and high school swim coach, where he worked with swimmers of varying abilities from developmental to state and regional competitors. After some time away from the water, Jason started working with the Falfins organization as a coach for the Dynamo 2 and High School Performance groups. In his current role as the Blues coach, Jason's primary focus is developing all swimmers to the best of their potential in a supportive and inclusive environment.
Practice: 5-6 times / week
KELLY WEDERQUIST | DYNAMITE 1, ADAPTIVE, & SUMMER PROGRAMS
Kelly Wederquist grew up swimming in Colorado as a summer club and high school swimmer. While in college (University of Colorado, Boulder) she taught lessons and coached a small club team. After earning a degree in Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, Kelly went to work for the United States Olympic Committee and was a high school assistant coach in her free time. After taking time away from the sport to start a family, Kelly became involved with swimming again with PEAK Swim Team both as a parent and as the Swim Lessons Director. Kelly began teaching lessons with Falfins in 2015. She now coordinates the Falfins lessons program and coaches Dynamo 1, Adaptive Aquatics, and Summer groups. As a coach, Kelly emphasizes technique, team skills, and team building. In 2024, Coach Kelly was named the Disability Coordinator for Colorado Swimming.
Practice: 4 times / week
LAELLE BROVOLD | DYNAMO 2
Laelle Brolvold has been a part of Falfins since 2015. She began as a swimmer, competing at the Junior National level and winning the 200 Butterfly at Senior Western Zones. At Rampart High School Laelle was an All-American, a member of the State Champion team, and an individual and relay state champion. She went on to compete at the Division 1 level for the University of Wyoming. Laelle has also worked for Falfins as a lessons instructor and summer coach. We are excited to have her as our Dynamo 2 coach.
Practice: 3-4 times / week
ANISA CRYDERMAN | DYNAMITE
Bio coming soon