Heidi Voigt enters her third season as an assistant coach at Wyoming and her fifth overall season with the UW swimming and diving program. She was promoted to assistant coach during the summer of 2005, after serving as a graduate assistant from 2003-05. During the 2006-07 season, Voigt helped lead the Cowgirls to one of the best seasons in school history. The Cowgirls got off to a tremendous start as they began the 2006-07 season with a 6-0 dual record, the best start in the program's history. They finished third in the regular season MWC standings, the best finish for the Cowgirls in MWC history, with a conference dual record of 6-2. She also helped guide three athletes to individual MWC Championships and 12 Cowgirls and 11 Cowboys to First Team All-MWC individual honors. Academically, 30 swimmers and divers were named Academic All-MWC, 15 were selected as MWC Scholar Athletes and three were named Academic All-District VII by CoSIDA and ESPN The Magazine. The Cowboys and Cowgirls also earned 13 MWC Athlete of the Week honors, the most by any team in the conference. Voigt also helped guide Aimee Stinson, a distance freestyle swimmer, to three First Team All-MWC honors, four school records and a top-four finish in three events at the 2007 MWC Championships. In her first season as an assistant coach, Voigt helped lead the UW swimmers to six First Team All-MWC honors and to 11 Second Team honors. She also led her speciality events, the UW distance freestyle, to one First Team All-MWC accolade and to three second team honors. Following last season, 12 student athletes were named MWC Scholar Athletes and 23 were named Academic All-Conference. In her two seasons as a graduate assistant, Voigt helped 30 men and 25 women earn sports on the MWC First and Second Teams. In her second season, she helped guide the men's team to their best finish at the MWC Championships in the history of the conference. She helped guide Scott Usher on to the 2004 United States Olympic Team, where he finished seventh in the 200-meter breaststroke. During her career at Wyoming, both the men's and women's teams have been recognized as Academic All-America teams by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America numerous times. Voigt is a 1996 graduate of the University of Washington, where she was a team captain for the Husky swim team. Prior to coming to Laramie, she coached high school and age group teams in both Seattle and Montana and was named the age group coach of the year for the state of Montana in 2002. A native of Helena, Mont., Voigt graduated from Capital High School in 1992. She received her masters degree in health and kinesiology from Wyoming in May of 2005. The former Heidi Gray, she married Eric Voigt on Oct. 8, 2005 in Helena, Mont. The couple welcomed a son, Sevi, on May 3, 2007. |
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