Coaches & Team Staff

Coaches

Hewerton Moreira

Head Coach

Hewerton coached the Cedar Rapids Rampage United outdoor team two seasons and the indoor Rampage last season. The Rampage United went to the championship semifinals both seasons, while the arena Rampage improved from five wins in 2015-16 to 12 in 2016-17 under Hewerton’s guidance. As a player, he won three championships during his seven seasons with the Wave, where he played for Keith Tozer, the winningest indoor soccer coach of all time.

Per MASL rules regarding player/coaches, on days that Hewerton plays, Jamie Swanner is Head Coach on the bench.

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Jamie Swanner

Head Coach

Jamie Swanner has played for the St. Louis Ambush, Canton Invaders, Buffalo Blizzard and Kansas City Attack in a career that spanned 16 seasons. He was instrumental in the Ambush capturing the 1994-95 NPSL Championship. Jamie was Head Coach of the Ambush for the 1999-2000 season. Swanner was owner and Head Coach of the St. Louis Illusion (PASL-Pro) from 2008 to 2010. In 1997, Swanner became an assistant coach with both the Duchesne High School and Lewis and Clark Community College teams.

Prior to turning pro, Swanner was a member of the 1984 US Olympic Team and the 1984 US National Team. Swanner attended Southwest High School in St. Louis. After graduating from high school, he was a goalkeeper on Clemson University’s men’s soccer team. In 1983, his senior season, he earned first team All American honors and was named the ISAA Goalkeeper of the Year. He also lettered in baseball at Clemson in 1983.

Swanner became Assistant Coach and Goalkeeper Coach of the Ambush in December 2015. Per MASL rules regarding player/coaches, on days that Hewerton plays, Jamie Swanner is Head Coach on the bench.

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Mark Litton

Goalkeeper Coach

Mark Litton joins the Ambush for the 2017-18 season as goalkeeper coach. He is considered one of the top goalkeeper coaches in the world and brings a wealth of experience at the amateur, collegiate, semi-pro and professional levels.

He has been an Assistant Coach/ Goalkeeper Coach for the U.S. Futsal National Team since 2008, and has coached in 2 CONCACAF championships and 1 World Cup. Mark was Assistant Coach with the Cedar Rapids Rampage of the MASL the past two seasons, as well as the Assistant Coach/Goalkeeper Coach for the Milwaukee Torrent Professional outdoor soccer team of the NPSL. In 2018, he will be the Head Coach of the WPSL Milwaukee Torrent women’s team. Mark spent 10 years with the Milwaukee Wave as their Goalkeeper Coach, winning MISL championships in 2005, 2011, and 2012 and helping develop such notable stars as Nick Vorberg and Marcel Feenstra. Litton was the goalkeeper coach for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Men’s team from 2011 to 2017.

Litton is a former goalkeeper with the Milwaukee Wave, having played for the team from 1989 through 1994. He was the starting goalkeeper at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside from 1986-88 and was named NAIA All-American as a goalkeeper in 1988.

Mark is a member of the Wisconsin Soccer Association Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2015. Litton has an undergraduate degree in communications from Parkside. Mark, his wife Catherine, and their son Nico, live in Milwaukee.

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Tony Shelby

Assistant Coach

Assistant Coach Tony Shelby played with the Atlanta Silverbacks (USL A-League) and Milwaukee Rampage (USL A-League), where he won a championship in 2002. Shelby has coached at both the collegiate and professional levels. He served as Assistant Coach with the Milwaukee Wave United indoor development team, where he won the Presidents Cup in 2008. Tony was Assistant Coach for the Cedar Rapids Rampage (MASL) and Rampage United (UPSL and PLA) outdoor team the past two seasons, helping the team capture the 2017 central division crown with a 9-1 record and making it to the playoffs both seasons. Shelby is also the Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach at Milwaukee Area Technical College. The 2017-18 season is Tony’s first with the Ambush.