Each week at the YWCA on Corpus Christi’s Southside, you’ll find a pool full of people and one unlikely instructor.
Socorro Moreno, who has been teaching swim exercises for the past 15 years, first came to the YWCA as a student.“I came in for a class and I was going to do the exercise, but the instructor didn’t show up,” Moreno said.
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She began doing her own routine, which caught the attention of others in the water.“Some of the other ladies started following me, and it happened that the supervisor was in the water,” Moreno said.
That unexpected moment led to an offer for Moreno to become an instructor.KRIS6 News asked Socorro if she had to think about the offer.“No, right away I said yes!” she said with a laugh…