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Pearland Swim Team Staff

 

BOARD MEMBERS

  President

Catherine Southerland 

   VP Operations

Ellen Shohet

   VP Ways & Means

Dave Wilson

   Secretary

Rhonda Paz

   Treasurer

Lynn Tackett

   At Large

Genine Burchell

   At Large

Jennifer Stinnett

 

PST COACHES

   Head Coach

Blake Henry

   Assistant Coach

Lauren Partridge

  Assistant Coach

Matt Winton

   Junior Coaches

 

 

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

   Concessions

Anju Aggarwal and Amy Roudbari

   Timers

Nancy Kozanecki

   Meet Officials

Steve Levy

   Clerk of Course

Patti Caddell

   Set-up and Clean-up

Kevin Morano

   Spirit Shop

Rachel Sauer

   Ribbons

Gay Stricklin and Donita Harrington

   Ready Area

Minnie Quintanilla

   Advertising & Sponsors

Laura Wilson

   RASH - Really Awesome Swimmer Helpers

Amy Roudbari

 

WEBSITE CONTACTS

   Webmaster

 Rhonda Paz

   Team Photographer

Valerie Condon

 


 

 

Coach Blake

 
Coach Blake Henry swam competitively for about 12 years in both summer league and later in high school.  He went to college at  Lamar University for four years, where he received a double major in Health and Biology.  While there, he also trained to be an Athletic Trainer.  After graduating, he went on to get a Masters at Northwestern State University in Louisiana.  In two years, he completed a master’s degree in Sports Administration and continued working as an Athletic Trainer.  After graduating, he moved back home and began teaching and coaching swimming at Dickinson High School, where he’s been for five years.
He was the assistant coach for the Pearland Swim Team for two years,  this is his third year as the head coach for the summer league.  He has also coached for Synergy Aquatics (aka PEAK).
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Coach Lauren

 

 

Coach Lauren Partridge is a native Pearlander.  She began swimming in her grandparent’s backyard pool before she could walk.  In her early years, Lauren swam for the Pearland YMCA and for the Clear Lake City Stars.  While attending Pearland High School, Lauren joined the swim team and served as Team Captain her junior and senior years.  She also loves water polo, which she began playing in high school and continued in college at Baylor University.  There, she began traveling the world and speaking Spanish, and decided to pursue a degree in International Studies and Spanish.  Currently, Lauren is teaching Spanish II at Glenda Dawson High School (named for her awesome grandma), and is coaching the Dawson swimming and water polo team.  This is her second summer to coach the Pearland Pirates, and she is muy emocionada!! She considers herself blessed to have the opportunity to work with young people in the community she calls home.  Lauren loves adventure, reading, dancing two-step and salsa, having lunch at The Pear Tree, and sunsets.  ˇˇPura vida!!

This is Coach Lauren's second year coaching for the Pearland Swim Team.

 

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Coach Matt

 

 

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 and continues to serve as such.  He is married and has one 4 year old girl and a son that just turned 1.

This is Coach Matt's first year coaching for the Pearland Swim Team.

 

 

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: Vanessa Alejandro, Philip Bich, Ashley Gao, Allison Hall, Heather Leaverton, Ellen Shaw, Priyanka Tripuraneni, 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.

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