Meet the Coaches

Anne Sievers has been involved in the sport of swimming for most of her life and has been a swim coach for over 20 years, 15 of which have been coaching summer league teams in Columbia. She has taught hundreds of kids to swim while helping others to advance their skills to the next level as competitive swimmers. During her 5 years coaching at Mizzou she helped the Tigers earn top-25 rankings for the first time in school history along with several individual swimmers qualifying for the NCAA championships. Sievers brings a passion for the sport and developing all athletes of all levels in the pool!

As a swimmer, Sievers began competing in Illinois at the age of 8 before moving onto swim at the University of Michigan. As a swimmer, Sievers was a 10-time All-American, 5-time Big Ten Champion being named “Female Athlete of the Year” her senior season. She is the only athlete in Illinois swimming history to be named “Illinois Swimmer of the Year” on four separate occasions. She held numerous state records with some still standing today. On the international level, Sievers represented the United States on multiple occasions on several national teams. She was a finalist at the US. Olympic Trials in 1992 and 1996, narrowly missing the Olympic Team in 1996.

Sievers has been coaching on and off with CSC for many years working with the National Team swimmers until the fall of 2021 when she moved to the Age Group program. When Sievers is not on the pool deck she’s either running her business, Synergy Sports, training athletes or coaching and watching her two kids in their sports. Sievers is a mom to Katherine, age 17 and Luke, age 15.

Nikki Wilson began working in fitness in Columbia back in 2012 with FIT and Wilson’s Fitness. At this time, she began to develop their kickboxing program and train group and individual clients. 

In 2016, Nikki took over the MAC Sharks swim team when Anne left. Nikki has a passion for swimming and especially summer swim league. Nikki joined a summer swim league as a little kid and her experience with the summer swim league led to her to join Rockwood Swim Club in St. Louis. When Nikki is not coaching young swimmers she is training clients to help them achieve their fitness goals whatever they may be along with running Kickboxing classes.

Childhood athletics and especially swimming taught her numerous life lessons. Nikki says she coached summer league in hopes she can give the amazing experiences she received back to the next generation of kids. She strives for all my swimmers to improve their skills, learn sportsmanship, and have fun all summer!

Katherine is going to be a senior at Rock Bridge High School. She swam summer league up until 2018 at the MAC and WBSC. Katherine spends her time in the water with the beginner level swimmers for swim team and teaching the youngest of swimmers how to become comfortable in the water and learn how to swim for lessons. She loves teaching them how to become comfortable in the water, begin teaching the basics of all 4 strokes strokes. Katherine has been coaching summer league for 4 years and teaching swim lessons for 3 years. Katherine wants to major in elementary education in college with the hopes of teaching young children in the classroom while also coaching basketball and swimming.