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Eastern Express is directed by a staff of full-time
professional coaches who provide a full-service USA Swimming club.
The business of the team, administration and policy, is conducted
by head coach, Brent Matheson, together with his
staff of assistant coaches, Rick Alexander, Mike Randazzo, Lynn Shields and Fallon Quiles.
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 Brent
Matheson is the Head Coach
of Eastern Express, and has been
involved with swimming for over
30 years. As a young age-group swimmer,
Brent was ranked in the top 16 nationally
in butterfly events, and was a New
Jersey State record holder. Brent
was also a prep school All-American
at the Peddie School, Eastern Champion
in the 100 fly, and captain of the
Peddie swim team his senior year.
In college, Brent swam at Penn State
on an athletic scholarship, and
qualified for the NCAA Division
I championships his senior year.
Since college, Brent has competed
in USA Masters Swimming, and has
been ranked top 10 in the US and
the world on the Masters circuit.
In 2000, Brent began coaching with
Peddie Aquatics where he developed
young swimmers into NJ Junior Olympics
Champions and Eastern Zones qualifiers.
In the fall of 2004, Brent took
over the operations of Eastern Express
as the Head Coach and President
of Express Sports, Inc., the parent
corporation of EEX. Since then,
Brent has directed the team to a
3rd place finish at the NJ Junior
Olympic Championships, and has coached
the development of senior level
athletes who have qualified for
the USA Swimming National Championships
and USA Olympic Trials. In the fall
of 2005, Brent was a coach participant
in USA Swimming’s National
Select Camp conducted at the Olympic
Training Center in Colorado Springs,
Colorado.
Brent's formal educational training
is as a lawyer, and he has worked
for several years as a criminal
prosecutor. Currently, Brent devotes
all of his time and attention to
Eastern Express, the training of
its swimmers and the development
of club. Brent lives with his wife,
Cathy, who coordinates the business
functions of Express Sports, along
with their three children in Skillman,
NJ.
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Rick Alexander assists
with coaching and stroke technique
for each of the Eastern Express
groups. Rick is a highly experienced
swimmer who for many years has participated
in Masters Swimming, and who has
been ranked in the Top 10 in the
world in his age group in both backstroke
and butterfly events. In addition,
Rick is a United States Masters
Swimming (USMS) Relay All American.
He has consistently placed in the
USMS Top 10 in the backstroke, fly,
and IM since 1993, and holds several
New Jersey Masters Swimming age
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Mike Randazzo assists with the Eastern Express Senior Group. This is Mike’s seventh year coaching competitive swimming, having spent one year with the Hillsborough YMCA and three with Somerset Hills YMCA before joining the Express staff upon his enrollment at The College of New Jersey. Mike is a three-time Zone Coach for the New Jersey Swimming All-Star Zone Team and has served on the New Jersey Swimming Board as Co-Records Chair for the past five years. He is presently a junior at TCNJ, majoring in English and minoring in Linguistics.
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I have been swimming for as long as I can remember. From the days of Princeton Y and PASDA Community Park swimming, where I grew up, to my college days on the East Stroudsburg University team, where I graduated with a BS in sports sciences with a minor in health education. I was a freestyle sprinter and breaststroker.
As for my coaching days, 19 years ago, I began teaching swim lessons at Mercer County Community College. A year later, I started a recreational team in Lawrenceville and today Lawrence Lightning has become very successful. I coached age group 1 in Princeton for Excel swim team for four years, and then started a new USA team, Pennington Aquatics, in 2007. In the summer, I coach a stroke and turn clinic for swimmers at Lawrence Swimming Association. I moved to Lawrenceville with my husband and three children in 1989. In my free time I enjoy spending time with them and hearing from my youngest, Ryan, at Clemson.
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 Fallon
Quiles coaches the Age Group
1 and Age Group 2 Eastern Express
swimmers, and assists with SwimAmerica.
Fallon will be graduating from Seton
Hall University in December, 2007
with a degree in Elementary/Special
Education. While at Seton Hall University,
Fallon swam all four years specializing
in freestyle, butterfly, and IM,
and was named to the BIG EAST Academic
All-Star Team from 2003-2005. Prior
to her college swimming, Fallon
was the Captain of the Manalapan
High School swim team for two years,
and also swam with Peddie Aquatics
for four years and the Freehold
YMCA for eight years.
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Brent
Matheson - Head Coach / Senior Group
