Kyle excitedly joined the Bozeman Barracudas in the summer of 2025 as the team’s Head Coach and Senior Group Lead Coach! Kyle comes to us after many years of coaching experience before, during, and following his time at Texas A&M, where he competed as an athlete for the Texas A&M Men’s Swimming & Diving Team. As a student, Kyle obtained a Bachelors of Science in Community Health and a Masters of Science in Health Education.

Prior to beginning his tenure with the Barracudas, Kyle was the Head Coach for Premier Aquatics Club of Klein (PACK) in Houston, TX. Under his coaching, PACK enjoyed success at the local, state, and national level, including a Silver Medal Club Excellence award for being one of the top 100 clubs in the nation in the 2024-2025 season. Kyle developed multiple U.S. Open, Summer Junior & Winter Junior National qualifiers, dozens of Futures & NCSA Junior National Qualifiers, and even more Sectionals qualifiers. In his time with PACK, he also sent many of his senior athletes to go on to compete for collegiate swim teams at all levels.

Prior to his career with PACK, Kyle held various positions with several different clubs and teams, coaching young, learn-to-swim athletes all the way up to collegiate athletes. He began coaching in 2014 for his neighborhood swim team, the Terranova West Tidal Waves, where he worked for three years. While with the Tidal Waves, he helped bring home Divisional Championships and watched his swimmers earn regional meet records at post-season competitions. He followed this up by working with Aggie Swim Club and the Texas A&M College Club Swim Team, enjoying success with both age-group athletes as well as those attending Texas A&M. Post-college, he re-joined PACK for a year and a half (prior to becoming the teams’ Head Coach) working with its middle-school aged athletes. Kyle also taught Biology at Klein Cain High School for one year while in a role as the Assistant Coach for the high school team.

Kyle learned to swim at a young age and found a love for the water early on, but did not start swimming competitively until he was 12 years old, when he began his athletic career with PACK. As an athlete, he enjoyed success at every level of the sport, earning multiple Summer Junior Nationals cuts as well as nearly a dozen team records. He also competed for Klein Collins High School where he set five team records and earned a 2nd place finish at the 2014 UIL 6-A State Meet. He earned a spot with the Texas A&M Men’s Swimming & Diving Team in 2014, and enjoyed his time as a collegiate athlete working with an incredible coaching staff and wonderful teammates.

Kyle and his wife, Barrett, are brand new to Montana and are loving every minute of it! They spend as much of their time as they can outdoors, enjoying this wonderful state alongside their two dogs, James & Neptune.

Matt has been in and around competitive swimming for a long time.  He started swimming at age 5 and swam through high school graduation.  He became a swim official at age 19 and officiated high school, college and age group club meets for several years.  Since his daughter began swimming with the Barracudas 8 years ago, he has been a swim parent, a board member/officer, a nationally certified official and now a coach.  He has also been involved with Montana Swimming as Finance Vice Chair and now as General Chair.

Matt wants swimming to be a lifetime activity for our Barracuda athletes and desires for all to learn swimming as a survival skill.  He knows that the competitive swimming community is different than most sports – more collegial, collaborative and familial – and results in life-long friendships.  He gets excited by seeing swimmers attain small successes, at any level of swimming, and the confidence and self-worth that results over time.  Those successes are the result of excellent and efficient technique and hard work.

Coach Lisa has a myriad of experience that elevates the coaching staff at the Bozeman Barracudas.  She began swimming competitively at age 10 with the Canby Gators Swim Club in Canby, OR and quickly rose to become a top-level swimmer in the NW/Western Zone region, specializing primarily in sprints and mid-distance freestyle, backstroke, and butterfly.  She achieved several Junior National times and won numerous events and high point awards throughout her teenage years.  She went on to swim in college at Texas Christian University, a Division I school in the Big 12 conference, which has become well known for their athletic programs.  She also served as the team’s student manager and was able to learn the inner workings of a high level collegiate swim team.

Following graduation from TCU, Coach Lisa obtained her Master’s Degree in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Baylor University.  Her primary professional career has been working in Cardiac Rehabilitation, rehabilitating patients with various cardiovascular diseases.  In addition, her degree coursework included courses on motor development from birth to adulthood, with an emphasis on the development of fundamental skills and their effects on future performance.  This has greatly helped her in understanding proper progression of athletic skill and training capacity to achieve success in sport.

Coach Lisa is starting her ninth year with the Barracudas.  She worked as an assistant the first year, enabling her to work with all ages/groups.  As a lead group coach, she first started with our primary Age Group level for one year, then moved up to the Senior group for five years, and is now back with our top Age Group swimmers.  Lisa strives to become a better coach each season than the last, learning from both successes and failures.  She truly enjoys the process of developing not only versatile athletes, but also the skills that help them grow personally and succeed outside the pool.

Coach Monique is in her third season with the Barracudas Development group and loves helping young swimmers build skills while having fun in the water. She began swimming in Houston, TX, starting with her neighborhood summer league before joining year-round teams Fleet and Heat. In high school, she swam for a 5A team and qualified to compete at the state level. Monique also earned All-American honors in water polo and played at the University of Redlands, one of the nations top Division III programs. In her 30s, she even jumped back in to play competitively and help coach at the California junior college level.

With her background in child therapy in public schools, Monique brings patience, encouragement, and a great sense of humor to coaching. She believes swimming should always feel rewarding and fun, while giving kids the confidence to try new things and keep growing. She emphasizes skill development, confidence building, and a positive, supportive environment where athletes can thrive.

When she’s not on deck, Monique is busy cheering for her two Cudas swimmers, working on her artwork, or supporting families as a birth doula.

Janelle was born and raised in Hawaii, where she competed as an age-group swimmer for the Kamehameha Swim Club and PAC-5 high school swim team. Her swimming experiences range from the collegiate pool, to open water, and triathlons. Being a 5'2" woman, she likes to swim smarter and learn to leverage what she's made of. Janelle has teaching experience with Kindergarten through eighth grade students and swim coaching experience at the local, national, and international stages of swimming competition. She believes that swimming is a life-long sport that offers great opportunities to learn skills that will help with life outside of the pool. After living in Maine from April 2019-June 2023, she is happy to be back in Bozeman and coaching for the Barracudas Swim Team again!