Kaersten Meitz – Assistant Swimming Coach / Ladies’s Recruiting Coordinator – Staff Listing

Kaersten Meitz joined the North Carolina swimming and diving program in June of 2026 as an assistant swimming coach and the ladies’s recruiting coordinator. Meitz got here to Chapel Hill after spending two seasons at Pitt.

 

While at Pitt, Meitz was a part of a training employees that produced the 2 most profitable seasons in fashionable program historical past. Working primarily with the gap group, she helped the Panthers ladies’s crew to the very best end in program historical past on the 2026 NCAA meet (T-Sixteenth), whereas main the boys’s crew to its finest end in over 70 years (twentieth). The ladies additionally turned of their finest outcome on the ACC Championships with a sixth-place end.

 

Meitz started her teaching profession at Washington St. in 2023, the place she additionally labored primarily with the gap group.

 

A adorned competitor, Meitz was a four-time All-American within the 500-meter freestyle and the 1650 free at Purdue. She was a two-time Olympic Trials finalist in 2021 within the 400 and 800-meter freestyle and a four-time member of the U.S. National Team (2017-21). Meitz participated in two World University Games (2017, ’19) and earned two gold medals (400 free, 800 free relay) and a silver (800 free relay). She additionally spent the 2021 season swimming with the Toronto Titans within the International Swim League.

 

Meitz earned her bachelor’s diploma in gross sales administration from Purdue in 2018 and went on to safe her MBA from UW-Whitewater in 2022.