Lodge 88 Lionfish

Jason is excited to be back for his 2nd season as Head Coach of the Lodge 88 Lionfish. He utilizes thoughtful technique-driven coaching to swimmers ages four and older. For the past 20 years, Jason has worked with Houston swimmers of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds.

Much of Jason’s extensive experience comes from his last 15 years as Head Coach for RICE Aquatics. Under his leadership, the team has grown to over 200 swimmers, achieving new excellence levels and developing into the top 200 ranked USA swim team. Jason is most proud of the lasting relationships built with hundreds of swimmers and families that have stepped on the deck looking to try the sport of swimming and a community of families that have grown into a large swim family.

Jason’s ability to implement proper stroke techniques and mechanics while keeping the atmosphere fun and enjoyable for the swimmers has allowed his athletes to achieve success at all levels of competition.

• Numerous National, Jr National, Sectional, State qualifiers.
• Ten of his swimmers competed for their college teams at conference or NCAA Championship meets this past year alone.
• Admin Vice-Chair of GULF Swimming Board of Directors 2014-2018
• USA Swimming National Committee for Club Development 2014 - 2018.
• Has served on multiple committees and select coaching of the Gulf All-Star team, Gulf Zone team, and "Catch the Spirit" camps

Coach Hrisa is so excited to join the coaching staff for the Lodge 88 Lionfish. Hrisa is a Houston native and Texas Christian University graduate, with a bachelors of science. She's a middle school math teacher at Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart and has been in education for 10 years. She has also been a swim coach since 2010 and the head coach for the Middle School and Varsity swim teams at Duchesne since 2019. Hrisa loves to coach all the strokes but has the most fun teaching starts and turns. Her favorite event is the 200 IM but if she had to pick a favorite stroke it would be backstroke! Go Lionfish!

Coach Tim Chung will be joining the staff for the Summer of 2024. Tim was a 4 year letter as apart of the University of Texas Swim Team from 1999-2003. Tim has experience as a high level collegiate swimmer, year round coach and an avid masters/open water swimmer.

Coach Max is excited to be apart of the inaugural coaching staff for the Lodge 88 Lionfish.. Coach Max currently is enrolled at UH majoring in Finance and is a native Houstonian.

Max has experience teaching with RICE SYAP program as well aswhere he was a WSI instructor for all levels of campers HTX Swims Bridge Program. Max enjoys teaching the fundamentals of all four strokes while also keeping the classes fun and exciting. He comes from a background of multiple sports but currently spends time lifint while not studying or on the pool deck.