Coaches & Team Staff

Coaches

Hewerton Moreira

Head Coach

Hewerton Moreira is a native of Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. He found success in Brazil in both professional outdoor soccer and futsal. In 2004, he was recruited to play for the San Diego Sockers by then-head coach Brian Quinn. Hewerton has also participated in international championships in Asia and Brazil, finished in second place in CONCACAF Futsal and also participated in FIFA Futsal World Cups.

Hewerton enjoyed a professional indoor soccer career that spanned 15 seasons. He played for the Milwaukee Wave (MISL), San Diego Sockers (MISL), Detroit Ignition (MISL), Philadelphia KiXX (NISL), Chicago Mustangs (MASL), Cedar Rapids Rampage (MASL) and the Ambush (MASL). 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. Hewerton also won numerous individual awards and was a three-time all-star. He appeared in 296 regular season games, posting 196 goals and 170 assists.

Hewerton began his coaching career with the Cedar Rapids Rampage United outdoor team two seasons and the indoor Rampage for the 2016-17 season. The Rampage United went to the championship semifinals both seasons, while the arena Rampage improved from five wins in 2015-16 to twelve in 2016-17 under Hewerton’s guidance. Hewerton made the move to the St Louis Ambush during the 2017-18 season as a player/coach. The 2019-20 season is Hewerton’s third with the Ambush, and marks the first time he won’t be a player and coach as he retired as a player at the end of the 2018-19 season. Since taking over the Ambush, he improved the team’s record from 3-19 for the 2017-18 season to 10-14 in 2018-19.

Hewerton splits his time between St. Louis, Chicago, Illinois where he and his fiancée, Kim, own Red June coffee shop, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin where they have two more Red June locations and where his children, Gabe (9) and Bella (7) reside.

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Jamie Swanner

Assistant 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. The 2019-20 season marks his fifth as Assistant Coach for the team.

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Mark Litton

Assistant Coach/Goalkeeper Coach

Mark Litton joined the Ambush for the 2017-18 season as an assistant coach and 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. Litton is 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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