Heidi Voigt

Head Coach, Swimming and Diving
E-mail: hvoigt@nmu.edu
Phone: 227-2827
At NMU Since 2010

Heidi Voigt is enters her third season as head coach of the Northern Michigan University swimming and diving team.

The Wildcats finished fourth at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship in 2011-12 and two swimmers qualified for the NCAA Championship. Gaby Alzaga finished eighth in the 200-yard backstrokes at the NCAA meet, to become an All-American. Alzaga also swam the 100 back. Emily Brennan also qualified and swam the 400IM, 200 IM and 200 breaststroke. The College Swimming Coaches Association of America has announced its Individual Scholar All-American awards for the 2012 spring semester.  NMU had five swimmers named Scholar All-Americans by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. Three freshmen entered the list with a 4.0 GPA, Emily Bourguignon, Emily Brennan and Jordan Iverson. Also honored were freshmen Deborah Lawrence and Madisen Sechena. The ‘Cats also received the Team Scholar All-American Award by the CSCAA.

In her first season (2010-11), Voigt and the Wildcats finished seventh at the GLIAC Championship. Diver Kelli Vander Baan qualified for Nationals and finished 11th in the 3-meter and 13th in the 1-meter.

Voigt spent two seasons (2008-10) as an assistant coach at New Mexico State working with the distance freestyle group, arranging team travel and handling administration duties. 

During the 2009-10 season she helped direct the Aggies to a program-best second -place showing at the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Championships with 494 points.    The distance freestyle crew made an impact for NM State at the meet with five Aggies placing in the top 12 in the 1,650-yard freestyle.  In the classroom NM State ranked ninth nationally on the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Division I Team Scholar All-America Fall 2009 list. 

Voigt joined the Aggies after five seasons at Wyoming (2003-08).  She spent her first two years at Wyoming as the graduate assistant with the men’s and women’s programs and the last three as the assistant coach.  Voigt produced 25 men and 30 women to all-league honors during her time as a graduate assistant. 

Prior to her stint at Wyoming she was a high school and age group coach in Seattle and Montana.  Voigt was named the age group coach of the year for the state of Montana in 2002.

She graduated from the University of Washington in 1996, with a bachelor’s degree in athletic training, where she was a team captain.  While swimming for the Huskies, Voigt was voted the Most Inspirational Swimmer for three consecutive years. Voigt later went on to earn a master’s degree in health and kinesiology from Wyoming in 2005.