Coaching Staff 

Brian Cheng, Co-Head Coach

Coach Brian Cheng teaches physical education at Twinbrook Elementary during the school year. He also coaches with Rockville Montgomery Swim Club (RMSC), working with the National Development Group, Advanced Juniors, and providing administrative coaching at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Swim Center. He is especially grateful for how warmly the Stonegate swim family has welcomed his wife, Danielle, and his son, Zachary. He is proud of the team family that has been built since 2005. Zachary will be turning FOUR years old this summer and he's ready to start his Serpent career!  He can't wait to start group swim lessons with Coach Aunt Anna!

Anna Cheng, Co-Head Coach

Coach Anna Cheng enjoys sharing head coaching responsibilities with her brother, Brian. She is a kindergarten teacher in Rockville and also coaches with RMSC at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Swim Center, where she serves as a lead coach of 2 training groups. She has had the honor of coaching the Serpents since 2009, began coaching in MCSL in 1998, and grew up swimming in MCSL for 13 years, RMSC for 11 years, and at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School for four years.

In addition to coaching, she teaches group and private swim lessons. As a proud mother of two grown children, she feels especially blessed to spend her year teaching, coaching, and supporting kids and families—her true passions.

Noah Ferguson, Assistant Coach

Coach Noah, 22, is finishing his bachelor’s in journalism at the University of Maryland, where he is the sports editor of The Diamondback, the independent student newspaper. Coach Noah swam as a Serpent from when he was just 5 years old in 2006 until he aged out as a COVID-eligible 19-year-old. Before graduating from James Hubert Blake High School in 2019, he was a captain of the school’s swim team and had been an RMSC swimmer for 10 years. “My favorite thing about being a part of Stonegate is the family feel and close bond that swimmers, coaches, and parents share with one another, as well as the amount of energy and spirit the team puts into practices, meets, and other events,” Coach Noah says. This summer, he’s looking forward to being a mentor to young swimmers, as his former coaches were to him—“and bringing the spirit to this year’s Serpent squad!”

Team Representatives  

Your Team Representatives

Team representatives serve a variety of purposes for the Stonegate Serpents—including being a resource for parents who need information about the team. We can answer questions about practice and meet schedules, the difference between “A” and “B” meets, which volunteer positions are beginner level and which require some training or certification, how to become a certified official, what to bring to the Friday night potluck, where to buy team gear (and less expensive practice suits), and a whole host of other issues. We’ve been around a while, and we’re here to help as much as we can—or to point you in the direction of help. 

A Meet Reps

Theresa Curtis theresacurtis48@gmail.com

This is Theresa’s fifth season as a team rep. The Curtis family joined the Stonegate Serpents in 2009, when their oldest child, Jackie, joined the team. Jackie finished her last year with the Serpents in 2022. This season, Theresa and her husband, Patrick, have two swimmers on the team: Camille and Cooper. Camille, has been a member of the team since she was 5 years old; she’s now 18 and attends the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Cooper, 14, began training with the Serpents pre-team in 2015 and moved up to the regular team in 2016. Cooper is now a rising high school freshman.

Tom Lang  tflangjr@gmail.com

Tom and his wife, Erika, have been dropping off their Serpent swimmers for practices since 2011. Between the two of them, they have timed, officiated, photographed or otherwise volunteered at more than 10,000 meets (this statistic has not been verified and is likely hyperbole). Tom is in his element when feverishly scoring meets on Saturday mornings. The Langs have two daughters on the swim team: Molly, 18, is a graduating senior (gasp!), and Cameron, 15, is a rising sophomore at Blake High School. Molly is committed to saving the planet and very well may do so. Cameron is happiest on the soccer “pitch” and loves commiserating with her friends about swim practice. Ben, who attends the University of Florida, graduated from the Serpents in 2021.

B Meet Reps

Megan Thompson ellietessakatie@gmail.com

Megan and her husband, John, moved to the area after more than a decade of living internationally as a Diplomatic family. The first order of business, after buying their house sight unseen, was finding a pool! They became Stonegate Serpents in 2021. Megan has three swimmers on the team. Eleanor is 16 and a rising junior at Richard Montgomery High School. Her twins, Katie and Tessa, are 15 and are rising sophomores at Springbrook High School. Megan is a lifelong competitive swimmer and likes to swim long distance (10k) open water swims! She’s hoping to be back in the water after knee surgery this spring.  This is Megan’s fourth year as a B rep and she is so excited for an amazing season! What is she most looking forward to? Meeting all the new swimmers and families!  

Ingrid Higgins ingridkld83@gmail.com

Ingrid, her husband Danny, and their three children moved to the Stonegate area in July 2021. It was an exciting time filled with new beginnings, including settling into a new home—one they were thrilled to discover was just steps away from the neighborhood pool. Finding the pool nearby made the move even more special for the whole family.

When they first joined, their son Brian (now 9) was hesitant to even put his face in the water, and their daughter Madeline (now 11) had only taken weekly swim lessons at the recreation center. The Stonegate swim family welcomed them with open arms, and their children have since grown in confidence and skill—proudly becoming Serpents.

In her free time, Ingrid is a Zumba instructor and enjoys staying active and involved in the community. She is excited to serve as a team representative and support the continued success of the Stonegate swim family.

Fallon Seeley

Briggs Rolfsrud (Wilson) bsrolfsrud@gmail.com

Briggs and her husband, Lynn, needed something for the kids to do in the summer of 2021, so they joined the Stonegate pool. After just a few weeks there, they were hooked. The Stonegate pool is the ONLY place they want to be in the summers! Their two Serpents, Nova (11) and Lynx (8), have been on the team since 2022 and 2023, respectively, and absolutely love it. They love the coaches, the community, and the excitement of being on one of the top teams in the county. Briggs played softball, basketball and tennis growing up, but loves watching the kids swim and getting in a few laps when she can. Go Serpents!