Meet Coach Megan Peterson. |
Meet Coach Megan Peterson, Coach of the Sioux Falls Prairie Masters Swim Team.
Megan Peterson started her swimming career at the age of 5 with Sioux Falls Snowfox. She was usually the smallest swimmer behind the blocks, but she didn't care. She loved to hang out with her friends, but quickly put on her game face behind the blocks. This love and determination for swimming landed her a Division 1 scholarship where she followed Lindsie Micko to the University of New Mexico. Here she excelled, and became The Lobos' number one miler during her Junior year. After her Junior year at UNM, Megan decided to transfer to Division 3 Coe College, for academic reasons, where she broke numerous pool and IAAC conference records that still stand today.
During her collegiate career, Megan coached with the Snowfox Swim Team during the summers of 2002-2005. She continued coaching the Cedar Rapids team from 2005-2008 where she worked with all levels of swimmer from the summer league team to Olympic Trials Qualifiers and was even nominated to the Iowa Zones Coaching Staff in 2007. During this time she was also hired as the Coe College Assistant Swim Coach for her remaining academic year.
After a short hiatus of swimming herself, Megan began competing again and has fallen in love with the USMS style of swimming - where it is more about the fun and sharing the sport of swimming with newcomers than it is about always trying to 'crush the competition'. At the Masters' level Megan has enjoyed success in making individual top 10 national times each year, as well as achieving National Champion in 2012. However, she feels her biggest accomplishment and joy comes from encouraging her husband MatIand to join the swimming nation, as well as help her boss and many friends complete triathlons (Sprint to Ironman distance) for the first time. She is excited about the opportunity to coach the Sioux Falls Prairie Masters, because she wants to share her love of the sport with others, see the Sioux Falls Swimming Community grow, and she is just darn sick of those North Dakotans' and Iowans' beating us!
Questions for Megan? Contact her at [email protected] or 605-310-1738.
During her collegiate career, Megan coached with the Snowfox Swim Team during the summers of 2002-2005. She continued coaching the Cedar Rapids team from 2005-2008 where she worked with all levels of swimmer from the summer league team to Olympic Trials Qualifiers and was even nominated to the Iowa Zones Coaching Staff in 2007. During this time she was also hired as the Coe College Assistant Swim Coach for her remaining academic year.
After a short hiatus of swimming herself, Megan began competing again and has fallen in love with the USMS style of swimming - where it is more about the fun and sharing the sport of swimming with newcomers than it is about always trying to 'crush the competition'. At the Masters' level Megan has enjoyed success in making individual top 10 national times each year, as well as achieving National Champion in 2012. However, she feels her biggest accomplishment and joy comes from encouraging her husband MatIand to join the swimming nation, as well as help her boss and many friends complete triathlons (Sprint to Ironman distance) for the first time. She is excited about the opportunity to coach the Sioux Falls Prairie Masters, because she wants to share her love of the sport with others, see the Sioux Falls Swimming Community grow, and she is just darn sick of those North Dakotans' and Iowans' beating us!
Questions for Megan? Contact her at [email protected] or 605-310-1738.