MEET PAMELA SWENSON

Pamela Finney Swenson has more than two decades of experience coaching and directing student athletics programs in multiple sports at private schools and academies.  In addition, she is a former consultant in business operations, investment and financial management with a background in management and options trading.  Throughout her career, both in athletics and in business, Pamela has used her knowledge, experience, and natural talent for working with people to bring trusted guidance to her co-workers, fellow students, and clients.

For the past six years, Pamela has devoted herself to the athletics program at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, where she served as Assistant Coach, first of Freshman Girls Basketball, then Junior Varsity, and finally Varsity.  In addition, she became Loyola's Head Coach for their Junior Varsity Field Hockey program.  In each of her coaching positions at the Academy, she was responsible for establishing and maintaining the Academy's philosophy and mission reflecting the teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. 

Prior to joining Loyola, Pamela held coaching positions at St. Athanasius School in Evanston, Illinois, where she became Head Coach for both the basketball and volleyball programs and ultimately served as the school's Athletic Director.  Responsible for incorporating the school's mission to reflect the teachings of the Catholic Church through sports, Pamela managed all athletic-related duties for an elementary school and junior high school, including planning, organizing, managing staff within the athletic department, and monitoring all student athletes to ensure they maintained high academic standards.

One of Pamela's first positions in school athletics was as the Assistant Coach of the Basketball program at Pope John XXIII School in Evanston, Illinois, a position she held from 1999 to 2000.  In the early 1990s, Pamela had been an options trader for Chicago Research and Trading in Chicago.  She has also been the Financial Manager for the Woman's Club of Evanston, and most recently she consulted as a Wealth Advisor of Alternative Solutions for Topping Capital, Evanston.

Pamela holds a Specialized Certificate in College Counseling from University of San Diego and a Masters of Athletic Administration from Ohio University, Athens, OH.

All three of Pamela's children are now college athletes.  Her daughter, Evan, just completed swimming for USC, where she is a Journalism major; Christian runs cross country for Tufts University, where he studies in the Finance and Economics program, and Ian plays football at the University of Connecticut, where he is a computer science engineer.