Mona Groteguth enters her second season as the UIndy men’s and women’s swimming and diving assistant coach in 2018-19. She helped the Greyhounds to new heights last year, as the UIndy men set a high program mark with a third-place finish at the 2018 NCA DII Championships while the women placed 23rd, good for their best performance in four years.
Groteguth brings a wealth of experience to the role with the Hounds as a former Division I swimmer, German National qualifier and two-time German Olympic Trials qualifier. In 2008, she also qualified for the FINA World Cup in Berlin, Germany.
Prior to joining the UIndy staff, Groteguth spent two years as the Graduate Assistant for Men’s and Women’s Swimming at fellow-GLVC-member Lewis University, where she graduated with her Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership in May 2017.
In her two years at Lewis, her responsibilities included practice planning and strength and conditioning training. She also managed the team budget, planned team travel, and assisted in recruiting. She worked primarily with the mid-distance/IM group, coaching three individual qualifiers for the 2017 NCAA DII Championhsips. In all, she helped the Flyers rewrite 21 school records.
In addition to her duties at Lewis, Groteguth also worked as a swim camp counselor at the University of North Texas, University of Michigan and Oklahoma University.
She spent her undergrad as a student-athlete at Division I North Texas from 2011 until 2015. There she helped the Mean Green to a second-place finish at the Sunbelt Conference Championships in 2013 and contributed to a 3.62 team GPA in the fall of 2012 -- highest among all NCAA Division I swimming and diving teams. A team captain her senior year, Groteguth still holds school records for the 200 back, and the 200 and 400 medley relays.
Groteguth, who was a member of the Conference-USA All-Academic Team two years in a row, graduated Magna Cum Laude from North Texas with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in May 2015.
