Matt is the Head Swimming & Diving coach at Roger Williams University, as well Performance Director for Kingfish Rhode Island, a USA Swimming member club.  His coaching philosophy can be summarized in four words:  Positive Process Produces Performance.

Matt Emmert has served as Head Coach of the Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving programs since 2012, and during his tenure, he has continued to guide the Hawks to new heights under his tutelage. Since his arrival, Emmert and his staff have coached 170 NEISDA champions, 58 ECAC qualifiers, and four NCAA Championship provisional qualifiers

Highlights of Emmert’s Tenure at RWU:

• 2020 NEISDA Men’s & Women’s Coach of the Year

• 2020 NEISDA Men’s & Womens Team Champions

• 2019 NEISDA Men’s Swim Coach of the Year

• 2019 NEISDA Men’s Team Champions & Women’s team runner-up

• 2018 NEISDA Men’s Team Champions & Women’s team runner-up

• 2017 NEISDA Men’s & Women’s Team Champions, Men’s Coaching Staff of the Year

• 2016 NEISDA Women’s Team Champions, Men’s Team Runner-Up, & Men’s/Women’s Coach of the Year

• 11x  Women’s Scholar All-American Team

• 4x  Men’s Scholar All-American Team

• 1 NCAA Championship Qualifier 

• 8 NCAA Provisional Qualifiers

• 50 NEISDA Individual Event Champions

Prior to his position at RWU, he was an assistant coach at the University of Maryland, Texas Christian University, and University of Rhode Island.  In addition to his duties with Kingfish and RWU, Coach Emmert is also the founder and director of Ocean State Swim Camp, which sponsors technique, recruiting, and training camps & clinics throughout the region.

Outside of the Pool, Matt enjoys spending time with his wife Jillian, daughters Brynn & Lyla, and dogs Boston & Wayne.

Brian Hann serves as Kingfish Rhode Islands Head Coach of our Northern Rhode Island branch. Brian is from Sandwich Massachusetts and swam for Cape Cod Swim Club, coached under Ron Zuwallack, and Cape Cod YMCA Makos, coached under Ben Van Dyk.

He continued his swimming career and swam under Matthew Emmert at Division III Roger Williams University from 2013-2017 and led the team as captain for the 2016-2017 season. In his time at Roger Williams University he was apart of the 2017-2018 NEISDA Men's Team Champions, as well as Academic All American Team for the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 seasons. Brian's favorite events are the following: 200 Fly, 400 IM, 100 Fly, 200 IM. He graduated from Roger Williams with a B.S in Civil Engineering as well as Mathematics. 

Brian started with Kingfish Rhode Island in the summer of 2017. As our Kingfish Coach of our Northern RI Branch here are some highlights and achievements: he has helped coach athletes to the Regional, Silver, Age Group Championships, New England Senior Championships, Speedo Sectional and Futures Championships. He has also coached multiple Top 10 Athletes in the New England Swimming LSC as well as numerous top 8 finishers at both the RIIL and MIAA State Championships and has coached RIIL Individual State Champions and Champions in both the RIMA and Narragansett Recreational Leagues.

Outside of his life as a swim coach, Brian enjoys spending time with his wife Sammi and his Son Paxton and cherishes every moment they spend together. Brian is also a full time construction superintendent working on new construction of bridges, buildings, tunnels etc.