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Coach Matthew Winton began swimming competitively at the age of nine for the Nassau Bay Nauticats.  While in high school, most of Matthew’s time was spent swimming for summer league (coached 3yrs), varsity swimming (Clear Creek HS), varsity water polo, club (SCAT) and lifeguarding.  After high school, he attended THE University of Texas where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in history.  After graduating college, Matthew enlisted in the Army, where in his four years he served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and spending time in The Republic of Korea and also in Kansas.  Upon returning to the Houston area, Matthew became an assistant swimming and water polo coach and social studies teacher at Galveston Ball.  A year later he was made head coach.  He is now the head coach at Dawson High School here in Pearland.  He is married and has one 5 year old girl and a son that just turned 2.

This is Coach Matt's second year coaching for the Pearland Swim Team and his first as our head coach.

Coach Heather Leaverton started competitive swimming when she was six at the YMCA. After swimming there she went to FAST and began swimming for STAR around the same time. When Silverlake swim team started, Heather transferred there and swam for Pearland for eight years, where she volunteered as a junior coach for five of those years. Heather graduated from Pearland High school and she is now a freshman attending Houston Baptist University where she plays volleyball and is majoring in biology.

Coach Brittany Schroeder began swimming at 8 years old for the Wauseon Wahoos in her home town of  Wauseon, Ohio.  In high school Brittany had the opportunity to represent her school in the Division 2 Ohio State meet for four years.  After high school, Brittany received a scholarship to swim for the University of Toledo, in Toledo, Ohio, out of the Mid-American Conference. Brittany was rewarded for her years of dedication to her team her senior season when she was appointed a team captain for the Lady Rockets, who finished second in the conference championship meet that season.  It was the program’s best finish up to that point.  Brittany received a degree in Life Science Education during her time at Toledo.  Upon moving to the Houston area last year with her husband, Brittany took positions as a biology teacher and as the head swim coach at Dickinson High School.

Jr. Coaches

Our Junior Coaching is a volunteer program and is intended help foster leadership and team spirit . We are very proud to have the following individuals assist our coaching staff with the younger swimmers: Philip Bich, Cyrus Blanco, Ashley Gao, Allison Hall, PAlexis Loden, Rebecca Roudbari, Kyle Sullivan, Priyanka Tripuraneni, Qi Yang, Claire Zhang.   All of these great young adults are active members of the team and are excited to work with and encourage our newer swimmers.  For more information, go to our Junior Coaching Program page.