Coach Alex is an ASCA Level 3 Performance Certified Coach, which means his athletes have a documented history of placing Top Ten Nationally in their events for their age groups. He began swimming competitively in Hawaii at the age of five. His family moved to Temecula where he swam for the Temecula Swim Club from 2000-2008. 

Coach Alex swam varsity all four years at Great Oak High School where he was a multi year CIF Qualifier and Finalist specializing in Breastroke. With over 15+ years of Open Water Swimming experience, Coach Alex competes at multiple Open Water competitions throughout Southern California every year. In 2015 he was the La Jolla Gatorman Mens 3-Mile 19-24 Division Winner, the Coronado Rough Water Mens 1-Mile 19-24 Division Winner, and in 2016 he was the Oceanside Pier Swims Mens 19-24 Division Winner. Prior to coaching, he was a lifeguard/swim instructor for the Pechanga Band of Mission Indians. Coach Alex’s coaching career began in 2013 where he started as an Age Group/Senior Assistant on TMEC for two years. 

In 2015, after his first stint on TMEC, Coach Alex would find himself joining MESA Aquatics and coaching there for an additional six years. While at both TMEC and MESA Aquatics, Coach Alex coached numerous SCS Age Group Top Time Qualifiers including having at least one swimmer on the annual "SCS Top 16" list between 2014-2017 and 2020-2022. He would also be selected to the SCS All Star Festival Coaching Staff three times, in 2016, 2018, and 2022. In 2017, at the age of 22, Coach Alex took over as Head Boys Swimming Coach at Temescal Canyon High School in Lake Elsinore, CA. Under his leadership, the Titan Boys became back-to-back Sunbelt League Champions in 2017 & 2018. In his first year there, he led the Titan Boys to a perfect season (10-0-0 Overall), as well as two 2017 CIF-SS D3 Champion Relay Teams. Due to the success of the program under his tenure, TC Swim went from CIF-SS Division 3 to Division 2 in 2019, where his boys team became Runner-up Rain-cross Conference Champions. 

While at Temescal Canyon, he also worked as a Physical Education Paraeducator in the Lake Elsinore Unified School District for multiple years. In 2020 Coach Alex was selected as an Assistant Coach for USA Swimming’s Western Zone Diversity Select Camp.