Former Wayne State University swimmer Bryce Pitters enters his sixth year as aquatics director at the Matthaei pool and seventh season as an assistant swim coach for the Warriors in the fall of 2009. He assumed additional duties as recruiting coordinator for the 2005-06 season.

As aquatics director, Pitters is responsible for coordinating many contests hosted at the Matthaei pool, both for Wayne State and events such as high school invitationals and league meets.

Pitters has helped guide some of the most successful campaigns in school history. In 2006, Wayne State became just the second school in GLIAC history (Oakland) to win both the men's and women's conference championships in the same season. Both teams repeated in 2007 to join Oakland University - which did it seven times between 1989-97 - as the only schools in GLIAC history to win both titles in consecutive years. The WSU women's team made it three in a row in 2008.

In 2009, the men's squad won its fifth GLIAC title in the last seven years (the team also won during Pitters' tenure in 2004), while both teams went on to finish second at the NCAA Championships, their best respective finishes ever.

Since Pitters joined the WSU coaching staff, he has helped mentor 76 individual All-Americans, 60 Honorable Mention All-Americans, 20 All-America relays and 19 Honorable Mention All-America relays.

Pitters began his coaching career in 1998 when he took over the St. Clair Shores Sea Serpents recreational swim team of the Lakefront Swimming Association. He coached the Sea Serpents from 1998-2000 and again for the 2002 season.

In 2001, Pitters was named an assistant coach with the Lakers Aquatic Club, the USA Swimming club from the St. Clair Shores and Harrison Twp. areas. Pitters was promoted to head coach in 2002, a position he held until April of 2004. In 2007 he was once again named head coach of the Lakers Aquatic Club. The club has already experienced success during his first year back with the Lakers. The team finished 14th at the 2008 Michigan 12 & Under State Championships which was highlighted with a state championship win by one of his swimmers in the Boys 12 & Under 100 breaststroke.

In May of 2004, Pitters was named the head coach of Red Run Golf Club in Royal Oak, where he worked until 2007. During his tenure he guided the team to an 18-4 overall dual meet record, including a 6-0 mark in 2006 while capturing the MISCA White Division Championship, Red Run's first title since 1998. Red Run also won an impressive 12 straight meets under Pitters. The team finished 0-6 in 2003 prior to Pitters' arrival.

Pitters was a four-year letterwinner at WSU and served as team captain during the 1999-00 campaign. At the 2000 GLIAC Championship, he was part of the 200 free relay quartet that set a then-school record (1:27.59).

Pitters, a 1999 graduate of WSU with a degree in communications (radio and TV), earned his master's degree in sports administration from WSU in 2001. The St. Clair Shores Lakeview graduate (1996) also was named to the athletic director's honor roll while at WSU.

Pitters is single and resides in St. Clair Shores.