Laura Koch Davis
Head Coach / Team Administrator
Email: [email protected]
Coach Laura started competitive swimming at age 10 in Sugar Land, was a High School All-American in 1994, and went on to earn an academic/athletic scholarship to attend Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. While at Iona she set 9 individual school records, was 3- time team captain for swimming and 2-time team captain for water polo, won Most Valuable and Most Dedicated honors throughout her collegiate career, named MAAC Conference Champ, and All-Academic Water polo 1999. She graduated from Iona in 1998 with a B.A. in History. In 2012, she was inducted into the Iona College Goal Club Hall of Fame for her athletic accomplishments throughout her collegiate career.
She started her coaching career while in college for summer league teams and has worked with many USA, USMS, and Summer league teams in New York and Texas since 1994. In 2006, she started her own USA team in Austin, and helped her swimmers obtain STAGS and TAGS. She moved to Houston in April of 2008 to coach the summer league team The Northampton Cudas, the Masters program- WMST, and later started Swim Streamline at Northampton. Laura joined WMST in 2006 and has been active in Masters swimming since 2002. She is ranked Top Ten nationally and FINA in numerous events, named All-American 2003-2015.
She has been busy in volunteer work throughout the years. She was the Vice President of WMST for 3 years and served as Coach Representative. She has served as a delegate for the Marketing, Rules, and Long Distance committees in USMS.In Gulf Swimming she served a term on the Board of review, and is finished 2 terms as Age Group Vice Chair for Gulf Swimming. In summer league, she serves on the Northampton Cuda Board.
Currently, she is coaching her 15th year as Head Coach/ Co- Owner of SSAN. In October 2018, she was named Gulf Age Group Coach of the Year! SSAN has already had some exciting events happen in our team history numerous top 3 finishes at 8 & under, Fall, Senior, Gulf Age Group Summer & Spring champs, TAGS record holder, LSC record breakers, numerous USA Swimming National Age Group Top 10 & World 100 athletes, High Point TAGS, Numerous Collegiate swimmers, Junior & Senior National qualiers, 8th Place at 2018 SC & LC TAGS - Many top 10 finishes ,9th Place at 2023LC NCSA - Highest finish to date, 28th Place at 2018 LC NCSA - Highest finish to date, 4th Place at 2017 SC Age Group Champs - Highest finish to date, Team Spirit Award 2017 SC Age Group ChampsGroups Champs - First time to win award, 2nd Place at 2018 LC Age Group Champs - Highest finish to date, Multiple National Top 20 SC & LC swims. She has coached 16 seasons as Head Coach with the Northampton Cudas in which she lead them to several Division 1 winning seasons (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018)!
In the past 6 years, Laura & Ross have helped lead our athletes to significant success. We are so proud of our student athletes!
2020/2021 USA Olympic Tr qualfier
World cup / Jr World Cup qualifier
World 100 swimmer
Many have qualified for TAGS, Futures, Sectionals, NCSA Jrs, Zones, US Open, World Cup, Summer Nationals
TAGS Champions and High Point winner!
Graduated over 60 Seniors and over 40% of them have swum in college or are currently swimming in college.
Many academic scholarships & top of their class graduates.
7 named to USA Swimming Scholastic All-American Team
Our first valdictorian!
One now owns their own company!
Laura continues to help lead SSAN to a historic year on the World, National, State and local levels. Looking forward to a strong 15th year throughout the 2023-24 season.... GO SSAN! We are Streamline Strong!
