{"id":812402,"date":"2026-05-21T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/812402\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:44:16","slug":"ryan-lochtes-estranged-wife-isnt-pleased-with-new-34-an-hour-assistant-college-coaching-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/812402\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Lochte\u2019s estranged wife isn\u2019t pleased with new $34-an-hour assistant college coaching gig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Lochte\u2019s estranged wife Kayla Rae Reid has some concerns about him taking an assistant coaching job<\/a> for the Missouri State swim program, according to TMZ.<\/a><\/p>\n

The former Playboy model, who\u00a0filed for divorce from Lochte last March<\/a>,\u00a0is worried about the emotional well-being and stability of their three young children, who will be subjected to a long-distance parenting schedule.<\/p>\n

Reid and their kids \u2014 son\u00a0Caiden Zane, 8, and daughters\u00a0Liv Rae, 7, and\u00a0Georgia June, 2 \u2014 are staying in Gainesville, Fla., as they\u2019re established in the school system there.<\/p>\n

Ryan Lochte with his wife Kayla, daughter Liv and son Caiden at home during photo shoot in 2021. Sports Illustrated via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The exes have been embroiled in a public messy divorce, often feuding across social media.<\/p>\n

The Missouri State campus is about a 15-hour drive from Gainesville. <\/p>\n

\u201cI will be back every single month to see my kids,\u201d Lochte told TMZ, adding that he plans to visit them on breaks, holidays and during summers \u2014 and will spend his $30,000 coaching salary to do so. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have to start this coaching job to be where I need to be for them. I love them,\u201d Lochte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I pray one day they see this truly was all for them. I plan to just go up from here in the coaching world and I could not do that while in Gainesville.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kayla Rae Reid in February 2026. Instagram\/Kayla Reid<\/p>\n

Ryan Lochte competes in a men\u2019s 200-meter individual medley semifinal heat during wave 2 of the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials on June 17, 2021, in Omaha, Neb. AP<\/p>\n

According to his contract,\u00a0obtained by Front Office Sports<\/a>, Lochte will earn an estimated $30,000<\/a> and will be eligible for bonuses, which include $750 for a Missouri Valley Conference men\u2019s and women\u2019s championship or co-championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It includes $500 bonuses for each NCAA Championship individual qualifier and each relay team that qualifies for the NCAA Championship, per FOS.<\/p>\n

Ryan Lochte and his girlfriend Molly Gillihan. Ryan Wendler for the NY Post<\/p>\n

Lochte explained that living in Gainesville was \u201cno longer healthy or feasible\u201d for him and his girlfriend, Molly Gillihan<\/a>, who met at their kids\u2019 schools. <\/p>\n

\u201cGainesville hates me,\u201d Lochte said. \u201cWe are shunned here by the constant bullying and harassment we get on a daily basis from my ex.\u201d<\/p>\n

The six-time Olympic gold medal winner claimed Gillihan lost her job due to Reid and her friends allegedly calling her place of work and saying she was sleeping with a married man.<\/p>\n

Lochte previously denied that he got together with Gillihan while still with Reid.<\/p>\n

Reid is focused on coparenting respectfully and putting the children first, rather than feud in the public eye, a source close to her told TMZ, adding that she isn\u2019t interested in tearing down Lochte but prefers to move forward with with grace and maturity.<\/p>\n

Reid, who works as a realtor in Gainesville, made their divorce public in a note posted to her Instagram Story last June, which said her seven-year marriage to Lochte was \u201cirretrievably broken.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Lochte\u2019s estranged wife Kayla Rae Reid has some concerns about him taking an assistant coaching job for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":812403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,723,330088,62,1486,67,132,68,2391],"class_list":["post-812402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-florida","tag-ryan-lochte","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wags"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116613104791674674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}