Lauryn grew up in Northwest Indiana, where she found her love initial love for swimming. Lauryn swam for Chesterton High School and eventually was recruited to swim West Virginia University. While attending WVU, Lauryn was a 4x Academic All-Big 12 First Team and competitor at the Big 12 Conference Championships.

Asides from swimming, Lauryn always has had a big love for sports and an interest in social media – so she decided to major in it. Shortly after graduating college, Lauryn began looking for a job and came across Swim Like a Fish through her dad, Robert Kallay. Robert is one of the main developer’s behind SwimCloud, an online recruiting tool for swimmers. Robert and Abbie have worked together for years on SwimCloud’s race analysis software, so Abbie couldn’t think of a better fit of someone to bring on to their team.