Mary Ann Downing is a San Diego mom passionate about drowning prevention and water safety.  She’s the “pool safety mom” at many local water safety events. She was a Board Member of the National Drowning Prevention Alliance (www.ndpa.org) for 6 years, and is currently the Co-Chair of the Drowning Prevention Task Force of Safe Kids San Diego.  She’s a member of the San Diego County Aquatic Council.
Mary graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Health and Physical Education with an emphasis in aquatics.  She spent time as an Aquatics Director for the Y (YMCA), and later started a business called Pool Safety Solutions- bringing  pool safety equipment and services to over 1300 pool-owning parents-in their own backyards.
Volunteering her time and energy, Mary has presented at national and local events on drowning prevention and water safety.  She was named the 2014 Drowning Prevention Advocate of the year by the Joshua Collingsworth Memorial Foundation for the “Water Safety Buddy Book Project”. She was instrumental (and had the most fun ever) in developing the award winning “Swim with a Navy SEAL” water safety project.
Mary uses the SafeR3 message- “all water has risk” and encourages you all to “Educate to Eliminate Drowning” with the Safer3: Safer Water, Safer People, and Safer Response.  (www.safer3.org)    Contact her at 858-603-2260 or mary@poolsafetymom.com