Shehaan P V Dias

Coach Shehaan is the present Head Coach of St. Peter’s College and Holy Family Convent. He started his coaching career back in 2010 after captaining the Swimming Team of St Joseph’s College in 2009. Started off as a Junior Coach at Rainbow Aquatics under Julian Bolling and worked his way up to become the Senior Team Coach at Rainbows.

Coach Shehaan is an American Swimming Coaches Association Level 5 International Senior Certified Coach which is the final level in swimming coaching certification. During his coaching career he has been a part of Team Such as Rainbow Aquatics, Coach of the Sri Lanka Navy and the Army Light Infantry Disabled Swim Team Coach, Advisory coach to Visakha Vidyalaya from 2011 to 2018, Musaeus College from 2013 to 2017.

His career also includes being selected as the Coach at the South Asian Games in Nepal in 2019, Team Manager at the 8th Asian Age Group Swimming Championships, Team Manager & Coach at the 54th Malaysian Age Group Championships.

He is also responsible for the overhaul in the Peterite program since taking over in 2018, where the school is presently challenging for team championships at local competitions.

The following international medals were won by Sri Lanka by his swimmers, 1 Gold Medal, 3 Silver and 3 Bronze at the South Aisan Games 2019 and 1 Silver Medal and 1 Bronze Medal at the 15th Singapore National Championships.

Coach Shehaan is on the verge opening his Academy during evening hours to provide lessons from Learn to Swim up to Competitive levels.