Alyx Koert joins the Screaming Eagles staff after being hired in April 2024 as the assistant coach, working alongside Head Coach Cameron Kainer.
The 2025-26 season saw the Screaming Eagles soar to new heights. The women's team secured seventh place for the second consecutive year but achieved a new team record with five dual meet wins. The men's squad earned a program-best sixth place at the Summit League Championship and matched a school record with three dual match wins.
Koert joined the Eagles from Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina where she was the Men's and Women's Swimming Graduate Student for two years. In August of 2023, Koert was promoted to Men's and Women's Swimming Assitant Coach.
In those three years, Koert coached seven student athletes to NCAA Division II National B-Cut time standards. She guided the Bears to 26 team records over the three years along with helping two student-athletes reach the NCAA Division II National Championships.
Prior to her hiring at Lenoir Rhyne, Koert competed for the Bears swimming program in the distance freestyle events and the 200-yard backstroke currently holding school records in the 1,000-yard and 1,650-yard freestyle events.
Koert, who competed for four years at Lenoir-Rhyne University achieved NCAA Division II National B-Cut time standards in both the 1,000-yard and 1,650-yard freestyle events in the 2015-2016 season. In 2017-2018, Koert achieved NCAA Division II National B-Cut time in the 1,650-yard freestyle while finishing third in the event at the 2018 Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships.
Koert grew up in Naples, Florida where she attended Barron Collier High School.
