Coaches & Directors

We are here to support your needs. If your questions are related to workouts, meets, events, goal setting, and other swimming related needs, please contact one of the coaches. For all questions related to administrative, such as dues, safety, or policy issues, please contact one of the team reps.

Coaching Staff

Kenny Shelhorse

Head Coach

Kenny Shelhorse

Kenny returns to the Thunder as our Head Coach. Kenny swam in the MCSL for the Damascus Dolphins. In his later years on the team he was a junior assistant coach. While coaching at Damascus they won the A division several times. Kenny made an Olympic Trial cut in the 200 meter Backstroke when he was a senior in high school. He attended the University of Pittsburgh and swam on the team for all four years. The highlight of his college swimming career was making NCAAs in the 200 yard backstroke in 2002. Currently Kenny is a security guard at Seneca Valley High School and plans to start working on a Masters Degree in Education in the Fall. He is really looking forward to coaching Waters Landing this summer and continuing our water polo nights.

Eddie Qian

Head Coach

Eddie Qian

Eddie competed for 10 seasons on the Waters Landing Swim Team and has come back for his fifth year of coaching. While attending Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Eddie was a two year captain and record holder on the varsity team. Eddie started club swimming with the UMCY Stingrays for 3 years and is currently a member of the Curl-Burke Swim Club. Eddie is coming back from his first year at the University of Delaware where he is majoring in chemical engineering, minoring in history, and is an athlete on their Division I varsity swim team. He also plans on competing in and winning the first annual Waterslanding Thunder Taco Bell draft. He warns all the other competitors to beware.

Patrick Bell

Assistant Coach

Patrick Bell

Patrick has been on the Thunder swim team for twelve seasons. He swam winters throughout his elementary and middle school years. He holds some Thunder team records and was 3rd in individual all stars for the backstroke and 14th in breast. A shoulder injury ended Patrick’s competitive swimming career. He moved on to other high-level club sports including Division I soccer and Junior Olympic Volleyball (placing 14th in the country in 2008). Patrick loves global traveling — especially to Europe and Africa. Patrick is a History Major at the University Of Tennessee. As member of the Army Rotc Program Patrick plans on Graduating as an Infantry Officer with a BA in History. GO THUNDER GO VOLS!

Marcela Omans

Pre-team Coach

This will be Marcela's 13th season on the Thunder Swim team. She did swimming all through highschool for Seneca Valley and was a captain her Junior and Senior year. This will be her fourth year of coaching and lessons. She will be returning to the University of Delaware this year as a Sophomore with a double major in Anthropology and three languages (Spanish, Chinese and Japanese) with a possible minor in Political Science. At school Marcela is involved with the Gymanstics Club and will hopefully get an intramural volleyball team together. If anyone ever wants to start up a volleyball game she will be the first one there! Since she has a late birthday, Marcela was able to come back one more year and knows it will be awesome!!!! GO THUNDER!

Erica Weiner

Junior Coach

Erica has been a member of the Waters Landing Thunder swim team for ten years and is now going into her third year of being a junior coach. You will often see (or more likely hear) Erica singing the National Anthem before home swim meets. She just finished her senior year of high school at Seneca Valley High School where she swam on the school team all four years of her high school career. She has also taught swim lessons for five years and is now currently a lifeguard at the Waters Landing "B" Pool. This fall Erica will be attending Radford University in southwestern Virginia where she will be majoring in music therapy and minoring in psychology.

Michael Ridenour

Junior Coach

Jose Martinez

Junior Coach

Esther Weiner

Junior Coach

Esther has been a member of the Waters Landing swim team for the past ten years and has enjoyed those years immensely. This is her first year as a junior coach and she is anxious to start. Esther currently attends Seneca Valley High School where she just completed her sophomore year. Esther also competed in the high school's swim team as a screaming eagle and she can't wait for her junior year. Esther hopes to go into screen writing and film directing once she's out of high school.