University of Nebraska at Kearney Women's Swimming

Osmanski enters her 20th year as the head womens swimming coach at Nebraska-Kearney with the start of the 2015-16 season. Osmanski became only the second Aqualopers head coach when she replaced Joan Bailey, who started the program in the 1960's. Since Osmanskis arrival at UNK, the record books have been rewritten with the majority of the top times in each event having been recorded during her tenure. In 2008, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) brought back swimming & diving as a conference sport after a 25-year absence. This marked the first time the Aqualopers had a conference affiliation since UNK became an NCAA Division II member in 1990. Osmanski helped lead the Aqualopers to a fifth place finish at the 2009 RMAC Championships in San Antonio, Texas. The team cracked the top eight in each of the next three years. When UNK left the RMAC for the MIAA (Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association) in the summer of 2012, the Aqualopers became an affiliate member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) in swimming & diving. Competing against several new schools, UNK came in eighth at the 2013 NSIC meet in Rochester, Minn. In 2015, the Aqualopers returned to the RMAC, taking part in the league meet in Colorado. Five UNK swimmers earned academic all-league recognition as they team placed eighth in a meet held at altitude. Prior to Kearney, Osmanski served as an assistant boys and girls swimming coach at Greeley Central High School in Colorado from 1994-96. She started coaching in 1993, working with the Greeley Swim Club while also teaching in Greeley Public Schools. The Pueblo, Colo., native graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 1993 where she was a three-time NCAA Division II national champion and a 17-time All-American. Osmanski capped her career off with two national titles at the 1993 NCAA meet, winning the 500 and 1,650-meter freestyle races. For all of her accomplishments, she was named the 1993 Colorados Sports Woman of the Year and was inducted into the UNC Hall of Fame in the fall of 1998. Receiving her Masters degree from UNK in 1998, she lives in Kearney with her husband, Duane, who was the head diving coach at UNK, and their son.

Wekesser joined the Nebraska-Kearney swimming team in the summer of 2015 and serves as an assistant coach. In her role, the Lincoln native will assist head coach Teresa Osmanski in all phases of the program. A Lincoln Southeast High School graduate, she swam all four years for the Knights, specializing in the 100 backstroke and sprint freestyle events. Earning all-conference honors four times, Wekesser placed in the top 12 in the 200 free once and the 100 back twice. Also earning all-academic honors twice in her career, she was named the team's Female Swimmer of the Year her senior season and also won the Sertoma Award for a female swimming. Prior and during her time at Southeast, Wekesser was part of the YMCA Dolphins, Eastridge and Irvingdale swim clubs. In the summer of 2012, Wekesser earned a medal at the Cornhusker State Games. Most recently, the U. of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate has taught swimming lessons at Eastridge Pool, Prairie Life Fitness, UNL Recreation Center, Irvingdale Pool, and privately. Wekesser also has coached the last five summers at Irvingdale Pool as a swim coach and substitute diving coach. Finally, she was an assistant coach for Nebraska Aquatics for three years. Out of the pool, Wekesser is a Weekend Technical Director/Meteorologist at KFXL FOX Nebraska.