The University of Pittsburgh has announced that Kaersten Meitz will join its coaching staff for the upcoming season, serving as an assistant coach. Meitz most recently spent time at Washington State.
“I am extremely excited and grateful to be joining the Pitt staff as an assistant coach,” said Meitz. “I’m looking forward to helping continue the momentum of the program that Chase [Kreitler], and the rest of the staff have started and help the student-athletes reach their goals in both the classroom and the pool. Thank you to Chase and the Pitt staff for giving me the opportunity to be a part of something truly special. Ready to get to work! H2P!”
Meitz arrives at Pitt after spending one season with Washington State under head coach Matt Leach, who departed the program this offseason to take the job at Iowa State.
Prior to Washington State, Meitz spent 8 months as a medical sales representative for Stryker in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Meitz grew up in Waukesha, a suburb of Milwaukee.
Meitz spent her collegiate student-athlete career with Purdue from 2014-2018. There she made NCAAs in all four seasons with the Boilermakers. She also was a member of the US National Team from 2017-2019 and swam at the 2019 World University Games, helping the US to gold in the 4×100 and 4×200 free relays. Meitz continued her career through Summer 2022, swimming at 2022 Summer Nationals as she was 9th in the 800 free.
Meitz arrives at Pitt after the program had at least one opening this offseason as associate head coach Roman Willets announced he would step away from coaching. Kelsey Reott also left Pitt as she became an assistant with the Princeton women.
The Pitt women were 10th out of 11 teams at ACCs while the men were 7th out of 11 teams. Both programs sent two individual swimmers to NCAAs. The men notably finished t-24th at NCAAs as diver Cameron Cash scored all 24 of the team’s points.
