Kristen Quigley joins SFU Swimming as full-time assistant coach

BURNABY, B.C. – Kristen Quigley has been employed because the full-time assistant coach of the Simon Fraser Red Leafs swimming program.
 
“We’re thrilled to welcome Kristen Quigley to our staff,” mentioned SFU head coach Demone Tissira. “She brings a wealth of experience from NCAA coaching and competitive swimming, a deep passion for student-athlete development, and a strong understanding of team culture; all of which will be invaluable as we continue to grow our program.”
 
A lifelong chief, Quigley joins Canada’s NCAA staff from the University of Nevada in Reno, the place she served as an assistant coach with the Division I program for the previous two seasons. She started at Nevada in 2022 as a graduate researcher on the college’s Neuromechanics Lab. Quigley accomplished her Master of Science diploma in Kinesiology in 2025 and is anticipated to complete her PhD in Neuroscience subsequent spring.
 
“I’m thrilled to join Simon Fraser as an assistant coach,” Quigley mentioned. “I want to thank Demone and the entire athletic department for this incredible opportunity. As Canada’s only NCAA program, SFU is truly special, and I’m excited to return to Canada and help build on the team’s proud legacy. I can’t wait to help our student-athletes succeed both in and out of the pool.”
 
In 2023, Quigley was the pinnacle swimming coach of Ontario on the 2023 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) in Halifax. She guided the staff to 36 gold medals in swimming, which sparked Ontario to first place within the standings with 55 golds general.

Quigley is initially from Oromocto, N.B., and likewise lived in Montreal earlier than shifting south to develop into a student-athlete on the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

She competed for the Coyotes of the Summit League from 2018 to 2022. In that point, Quigley served as staff captain and earned a spot in this system’s all-time high 10 in 5 totally different occasions. She merited all-conference recognition twice and was voted the hardest-working feminine athlete in her second 12 months at USD,

 

Academically, Quigley labored as an undergraduate analysis assistant and graduated from South Dakota with a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2022.

 

A member of the Metis Nation of the Rising Sun, she captured 9 medals on the 2017 North American Indigenous Games.

 

Quigley at the moment serves as a tutorial coach within the Rising Native Graduate program, and as an Athlete Advisory Committee member of the 2027 NAIG in Calgary.

 

The Red Leafs will start their 2025-26 NCAA swimming season with a pair of twin meets at Biola (Calif.) in late September.