Women's Swimming & Diving
Casmera Wick
- Title:
- Assistant Swim Coach
- Email:
- cwick@scarletknights.com
Former letterwinner and two-time All-American Casmera Wick is back "On The Banks" for her third season as an assistant coach. Wick has compiled 13 seasons of coaching on the pool deck along with working alongside USA Swimming on the club level.
Since her arrival back at Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights have achieved their highest finish to-date at the Big Ten Championships with swimmers accounting for six of the school-record 10 podium finishes. During the 2021-22 season, 28 times were established among the all-time top ten including new school records in the 50 and 200 freestyle.
Before arriving back at her alma mater, Wick spent eight seasons at Villanova as an Associate Head Swimming Coach and Aquatics Coordinator, Wick helped the Wildcat women capture seven-straight Big East Championships and earned a spot on the Big East's Women's Coaching Staff of the Year seven times. Most recently in 2019-20, 14 members of the Villanova women's team earned All-Big East honors, including 11 Wildcats in multiple events. Additionally, she was named to the Big East Men's Coaching Staff of the Year helping the Villanova men to a runner-up performance in 2018. Throughout her tenure, Villanova's rosters included numerous Big East individual and relay champions and Wildcats with NCAA provisional times, in addition to an all-american and University Games and Olympic Trials qualifiers.
Prior to her time at Villanova, Wick worked the 2011-12 season at Pittsburgh as an assistant responsible for all aspects of the Panther program. She accompanied one of the team's top student-athletes to the 2012 Canadian Olympic Trials resulting in a second-place finish in the men's 100 butterfly.
Wick also coached two seasons at Swarthmore, including the 2009-10 season as associate head coach and 2010-11 season as interim head coach. In addition to overseeing both the men's and women's programs, she also ran the Swarthmore December Invitational and was a physical education instructor.
At the club level, Wick was a co-head coach of Pitt Aquatics, an assistant for the Central Bucks Swim Team for four seasons and began her coaching career with the Hideaway Swim Team.
As a student-athlete and two-time captain at Rutgers, Wick was a two-time NCAA All-American and three-time NCAA qualifier. During her career, she set school records in eight different events and her name can still be found in the Scarlet Knight record books with the third-fastest 200 freestyle, fourth-fastest 100 freestyle, and seventh-fastest 500 freestyle times. As a senior, she won Big East titles with the 400 medley and 800 freestyle relay teams and was awarded the prestigious Headley-Singer Award bestowed to the top senior female student-athlete. An Academic All-American and Big East Academic All-Star, Wick graduated in 2004 with a degree in psychology with a minor in sociology and certificate in criminal justice.
Since her arrival back at Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights have achieved their highest finish to-date at the Big Ten Championships with swimmers accounting for six of the school-record 10 podium finishes. During the 2021-22 season, 28 times were established among the all-time top ten including new school records in the 50 and 200 freestyle.
Before arriving back at her alma mater, Wick spent eight seasons at Villanova as an Associate Head Swimming Coach and Aquatics Coordinator, Wick helped the Wildcat women capture seven-straight Big East Championships and earned a spot on the Big East's Women's Coaching Staff of the Year seven times. Most recently in 2019-20, 14 members of the Villanova women's team earned All-Big East honors, including 11 Wildcats in multiple events. Additionally, she was named to the Big East Men's Coaching Staff of the Year helping the Villanova men to a runner-up performance in 2018. Throughout her tenure, Villanova's rosters included numerous Big East individual and relay champions and Wildcats with NCAA provisional times, in addition to an all-american and University Games and Olympic Trials qualifiers.
Prior to her time at Villanova, Wick worked the 2011-12 season at Pittsburgh as an assistant responsible for all aspects of the Panther program. She accompanied one of the team's top student-athletes to the 2012 Canadian Olympic Trials resulting in a second-place finish in the men's 100 butterfly.
Wick also coached two seasons at Swarthmore, including the 2009-10 season as associate head coach and 2010-11 season as interim head coach. In addition to overseeing both the men's and women's programs, she also ran the Swarthmore December Invitational and was a physical education instructor.
At the club level, Wick was a co-head coach of Pitt Aquatics, an assistant for the Central Bucks Swim Team for four seasons and began her coaching career with the Hideaway Swim Team.
As a student-athlete and two-time captain at Rutgers, Wick was a two-time NCAA All-American and three-time NCAA qualifier. During her career, she set school records in eight different events and her name can still be found in the Scarlet Knight record books with the third-fastest 200 freestyle, fourth-fastest 100 freestyle, and seventh-fastest 500 freestyle times. As a senior, she won Big East titles with the 400 medley and 800 freestyle relay teams and was awarded the prestigious Headley-Singer Award bestowed to the top senior female student-athlete. An Academic All-American and Big East Academic All-Star, Wick graduated in 2004 with a degree in psychology with a minor in sociology and certificate in criminal justice.
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