Coach Maus grew up swimming at his grandparent’s cabin before learning to ski, knee board, and wakeboard. While a competent swimmer, he did not learn to competitively swim until his freshman year when he joined the Champlin Park swim team. There, he particularly enjoyed breaststroke and the butterfly and leading the team as captain.
He spends his spare time with his wife since they first met in the teaching program at Winona State. They enjoy board games, rock climbing, and spending time outdoors with their dog, Hades.
Ever the teacher, he has moved on to coaching others to appreciate the water as he does. Coach Maus began coaching in 2017 at NHCP. He coached there for 3 years for the senior level as well as for the past 3 years as an assistant coach for Maple Grove boys swim and dive. Outside of coaching, he is a middle school history teacher.
Coaching Staff - Swimming
Zoryanna (Zory) Matlashewski
Assistant Swim Coach
Email: [email protected]
This is Zory’s first year coaching at Armstrong. Zory started swimming competitively at 7 years old. Throughout high school, she swam for Edina Swim Club then continued her swimming career at Trinity College where she studied biomedical engineering. She was a distance swimmer and her favorite events consisted of the 400 IM and the 1650, but loved competing the 200 IM during in-season dual meets.
Outside of coaching, Zory works as an engineer focusing on medical devices. She also is an assistant choreographer and dancer at Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Ensemble. She enjoys teaching her dance students and is thrilled to continue working with athletes by transition into coaching swimming.
Zory is excited to be back in Minnesota, and after a year of retirement from competing, cannot wait to return on deck helping other swimmers achieve their goals within the sport.
Krissy VanLaarhoven
Volunteer Coach
Krissy is a Falcon Alumni who swam for the Falcons from 2013-2015. She, like many of our current athletes, swam year-round spending her club season with the Aquajets. After graduating from Armstrong she swam for the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities for one year specializing in distance swimming. She retired and joined the club team at the U of M. Her favorite race is the 1000. She studied math in college and now works as an actuary.
Fun Fact: Krissy can ride a unicycle!
Falcon Captains
Team captains provide leadership to the other athletes. Captains will represent the team with a high quality of sportsmanship, respect, hard work, and determination. The captains will be chosen yearly by the coaches.
Our captains will be:
- Team players and advocates for the school
- Extensions of the coaching staff
- Active listeners to athletes and coaches
- Respectful role models through sportsmanship and hard work at practice
- Maintain equality throughout the team
- Lead by example in the pool by completing all practice sets with their best effort
2024 Captains
- Ryanne Maher
- Ava Coe
- Joy van Laarhoven