Coaches
The Houston Glenshire Wahoo Swim Club is fortunate to have amazing coaches working with our kids. All of our coaches are experienced
swimmers with lifeguard training.
With a successful Level 1 swim program and a growing competitive swim team, our talented Coaches coach and inspire our kids to do their best. Throughout the season, our kids continuously improve their strokes and their times.
Claire joined the Wahoo Swim Team as a swimmer when it was founded in 2010. She began junior coaching at 12 years old and continued on to be an assistant coach once she aged out of swimming. She also works as a lifeguard instructor at Trotter YMCA. She has spent three years working with Coach Richard Butler and Coach Marcella Portillo on their club teams as an assistant coach. She graduated from the University of Houston with a major in exercise science and wants to become a physical therapist.
I swam competitively year-round from ages 4-18. Spent most of my years at the Duncan YMCA and ending at Dad’s Club Aquatics. I also work at the Duncan YMCA as a Lead Lifeguard and a Deck Manager. I love to connect with the kids and make them be excited about swimming.
Juan was introduced to Wahoo last season as a first time coach. He attended many swim camps as a child at UH and swam competitively at his middle school as well as on a summer team (Bellaire Barracudas). Juan began coaching swim lessons at the YMCA nearly 2 years ago where he was introduced to Coach Claire and was brought on to the team.