Matt Leach
	Position: Associate Head Coach Experience: 3rd year College Degree: Indiana `04

Matt Leach enters his third season at the University of Wyoming. Prior to the 2011-12 season, he was named associate head coach of the Cowboy and Cowgirl swimming teams. Leach brings extensive experience and knowledge of collegiate swimming, and works specifically with the sprint swimmers. He has helped head coach Tom Johnson in leading the Cowboys and Cowgirls to their best finishes in school history at the Mountain West Championships. Leach has also helped lead UW swimming to two consecutive top-three finishes at the conference championships.

In his short time at Wyoming, Leach has coached sprint swimmers to NCAA and Olympic trials competitions. A season ago, Leach helped lead Cowgirl sprint swimmer Kelsey Conci to the NCAA Championships in the 100 backstroke and the 50 and 100 freestyle. Conci placed 10th in the 100 backstroke at the NCAA Championships earning Honorable Mention All-America honors. He also helped Conci to a 2012 Olympic trials cut time in the 50 freestyle.

In 2009-10, senior sprint-freestyle swimmer Cassie Stelow swam for the Cowgirls at the NCAA Championships in the 50 freestyle.

Leach came to Wyoming from Louisiana State University where he began as a graduate assistant in 2004, and then as an assistant coach for two seasons. At LSU, Leach helped guide several athletes to the NCAA Championships, and a top-25 ranking for both the men's and women's teams. Leach also served as the head age group coach at Tiger Aquatics from 2006-2009. After a short time there, Leach was named the 2007 Louisiana State Age Group Coach of the Year for his efforts in his first season. Earlier in his career, Leach was the head coach of the men's and women's swimming program at Edgewood High School in Ellettsville, Ind.

A native of Portland, Ore., Leach swam in college at Indiana University where he was a four-year letterman and captain. He became a five-time All-American and helped the Hoosiers to a Big Ten Conference Championship in the 200 medley relay as a senior. Leach was a participant in the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials, as well.

Leach graduated from Indiana in December 2004 with a bachelor's degree in environmental management. He received his master's degree in environmental studies from LSU in May of 2007.