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Nancy Wightman
Synchronized Swimming Head Coach
Assistant Director of Athletics
nwightm@mail.keuka.edu
Wightman enters her 12th season at the helm of the nationally ranked
synchronized swimming team. Last season, Wightman guided Keuka to a
No. 6 finish at the Collegiate Nationals after a No. 5 finish in 2005-06.
The best finish of any non-division I school.
Wightman is a major figure on the national synchronized swimming scene.
She was named emerging programs director for United States Synchronized
Swimming (USSS). In that role, she will lead the collegiate development program
to
gain NCAA status for synchronized swimming by 2006.
She served as USSS president from 1992-96, USSS vice president of both
development and finance from 1992-96, and is currently the synchronized swimming
representative to the United States Olympic Committee. She is a member of the
board,
and past president, of USSS; past president of the United States Synchronized
Swimming
Foundation; and past secretary of United States Aquatic Sports.
The recipient of the U.S. Synchronized Swimming Distinguished Service Award,
Wightman
received the 2000 Hall of Fame Contributor of the Year Award.
Prior to coming to Keuka, Wightman was the head coach for the Troy Sculpins
(Troy, N.Y.).
She is a 1963 graduate of University of California at Riverside.
Wightman and husband Ed, reside
in
Hammondsport, N.Y.
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