Matt grew up in Northern Virginia in the 1970’s and 80’s.  He began swimming competitively at the age of 6 in the summer league with the Montclair Seahawks.   The youngest of four children, Matt followed his older siblings into year round swimming at age 7 and continued with it through high school swimming with the Dale City Amberjax, Quantico Devil Dolphins, NVFF and Curl Burke (Lee District) programs over his age group swimming career.  After graduation, Matt swam three years at the United States Naval Academy before hanging up the suit his senior year.  His swimming specialty was middle distance (200 / 500 / 1000) freestyle.  Matt is the father of 4 NVSL swimmers and have been doing stroke and turn officiating for the last 4 years.  Matt has a great deal of experience working one-on-one with swimmers and began organized coaching with Streamline Aquatics in 2008.  This is Matt’s first year working with the Marlins.  Matt’s “day job” is software development.  In 2009, Matt began getting back into the pool and competing in triathlons.