Pam Tanase began coaching with the Santa Barbara water polo club last year as an assistant to Coach Roth with the 12u girls team. In addition, Tanase is working as one of the swim team coaches and is entering her 4th year as the San Marcos High School diving coach. In addition to her coaching responsibilities, Tanase is a Regional Developer for the Massage Envy franchise and is a co-founder of workzones, a new co-working business club in downtown Santa Barbara.
Tanase began her coaching career in 1989 as the girls high school swim coach at La Quinta High School in Westminster, CA. The following two years Tanase was the head varsity boys and girls swim coach and boys junior varsity water polo coach at Pasadena High School. From 1991-2000, Tanase was the women’s swimming, diving and water polo coach for Claremont Mckenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps colleges. During her tenure, the CMS swim team won the SCIAC championship three times and had NCAA Division III qualifiers every year with a team high finish of 14th place in 1998. Tanase helped the CMS women’s water polo team evolve from a club sport to a varsity sport in 1994. Her team won the Small Colleges National Club tournament in 1992, SCIAC championship in 1996 and finished in the top three at the Collegiate II National Championships 5 times. Tanase was named Collegiate II Coach of the Year twice and served as the team manager for the USWP Junior National Team’s Pan America Championships in Cuba in 1994 and as the head coach of the USWP Junior National B Team in the Hawaii Tournament in 1995. Tanase’s final collegiate coaching position was at UCSB from 2000-2002 serving as the head women’s water polo coach after Coach Roth left UCSB. Her 2002 summer club team finished 3rd at the USWP Senior National Tournament.
Tanase graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1988. She was a three time SCIAC champion in 1m and 3m diving and a Division III NCACC All-America diver in 1988. In addition to diving, she swam in three SCIAC championship swim meets and played club water polo all four years at CMC. She lives in Santa Barbara with her husband Kirk Peacock and two children, Quinn Peacock and Kayla Peacock.