Laura Koch Davis started competitive swimming at age 10 in Sugar Land, was a High School All-American in 1994, and went on to earn an academic/athletic scholarship to attend Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. While at Iona she set numerous school records, was team captain for swimming and water polo, won Most Valuable and Most Dedicated Honors throughout her collegiate career, named MAAC Conference Champ, and All-Academic Water polo 1999. She graduated from Iona in 1998 with a B.A. in History, and with Honors from Iona Graduate School in 2000 with an MST in History/Education. Laura joined WMST in 2006 and has been active in Masters swimming since 2002. She is ranked Top Ten nationally and FINA in numerous events, and has served as a delegate for the Marketing, Rules, and Long Distance committees. She started her coaching career while in high school for summer league teams and has worked with many USA, USMS, and Summer league teams in New York and Texas since 1993. While living in Austin in 2006 she started her own USA team and helped her swimmers obtain STAGS, TAGS, and Junior National times. She moved to Houston from Austin in April of 2008 to coach the summer league team The Northampton Cudas, the Masters program WMST, and started Swim Streamline at Northampton shortly after. SSAN is now beginning the 2nd season as a USA team with a bright future ahead. Laura is a certified USA, USMS, and ASCA level 3 Coach.

Coach Ross Davis was born in Fremont, CA but grew up South of Pittsburgh in Uniontown, PA. He was a walk on at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, but earned a spot on the State Conference Team his first year in 100/200 backstroke and 200/400IM. Granted a scholarship his sophomore year but missing National qualifying in the same events, was asked to swim 200 Butterfly his junior year. He qualified for Nationals just 4 months later in the new event and went on to earn NCAA All American Honors 8 times; while setting school records in the 200 Free, 200 Fly, 200IM and 800 Free Relay. He competed as an Open Water Lifeguard, winning Maine's Iron Guard event 4 times. He was honored as Maine's Most Valuable Lifeguard in 1989. Graduating from Clarion in 1989, with a BSBA in Accounting, Coach Ross entered the sales field with a Nikon Instrument dealer in Georgia and was later hired by Nikon in Dallas. He started Multiplicity, LLC in 2002 and is still involved with microscope sales and service. After moving to Houston in 2008 to coach the Northampton Cudas he also started a new career in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Full Time Production Manager for Komak Mfg. Ross has been coaching for the past 5 years with Laura in Austin and Houston. He currently coaches part time with SSAN, WMST Masters, and the Northampton Cudas. Coach Ross tries to lead by example by building strong positive habits and fundamentals which will not only help a swimmer swim faster, but build self confidence for the future. He believes, "The mirror does not reflect truth or potential, only your perception" which he hopes young swimmers realize that if they think and train like a champion every chance they get, they can become one. As a Masters swimmer he has been ranked Top Ten Nationally in the 50/100/200/400/500 Free, 50/100/200 Fly, 50/100/200 Back, 100/200/400 I.M., open water swimming and 1 hour postal. Coach Ross also holds South Texas Masters Zone records in the 100/200 Fly, 50/100/200 Back, 50/100/200 Free and 200/400IM. He achieved All American Masters status in 2004 with the fastest time posted in the 400 IM and again in 2005 with the 100 Backstroke. In 2005 he won 4 National Titles in the 100 Fly, 200 Back, 200 Free and 200 Freestyle Relay. In 2006, while competing in FINA Masters World Championships he broke 2 Masters World Records in the 200 Back and 200 Mixed Freestyle Relay.