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Wick HS SWIM

Casmera Wick

  • Title
    Head Men's and Women's Swimming Coach
  • Email
    wickc@arcadia.edu
  • Phone
    215-572-4739
Casmera Wick enters her second season as Arcadia's Head Men's and Women's Swim Coach in 2025-26.

In her first season, Wick mentored Mikayla Scardino to All-Conference honors at the 2025 MAC Champinships.

Wick comes to Arcadia after most recently serving as the Assistant Women's Swimming Coach at Rutgers University. She assisted the head coach in all aspects of the Division I swimming and diving program, which included coaching the sprint group, identifying and recruiting talented athletes, communicating with alumni and coordinating team travel. While at Rutgers she contributed to NCAA provisional times, 10 school records, seven pool records, the highest finish in program history at the 2022 Big Ten Championships, and 10 Scholar All-American Honorable Mention athletes. Wick also served as the Co-Chair on the Women's Advisory Committee for the CSCAA.

Prior to her time at Rutgers, Wick served as the Associate Head Coach at Villanova University for eight seasons. While there she contributed to 24 school records, an NCAA All-American Honorable Mention athlete, a Big East Sports Excellence Award, a World University Games qualifier, an Olympic Trial qualifier, Big East Champions in several individual and relay events, a Big East Men's Runner-up, and seven Big East Women's Swimming Championship Team titles. Wick was also a seven-time member of the Big East Women's Swim Coaching Staff of the Year and the Big East Men's Coaching Staff of the Year in 2018. 
 
Before Villanova, Wick served as the Assistant Coach at the University of Pittsburgh for one season where she coached a swimmer to runner-up honors at the Canadian Olympic Trials. Prior to her season at Pittsburgh, she was the Associate Head Coach at Swarthmore College for two seasons, before being named the Interim Head Coach in September of 2010. There she coached the men's team to a second place finish and Women's Program to a third place finish at the Centennial Conference Championships. She also coached a swimmer to NCAA Division III Championships and All American Honors and a Para Athlete in the S9 division to American Records in the 50 and 100 yard freestyle events.

Wick swam Division I at Rutgers and was an Academic All-American, a two-time All-American Honorable Mention, a three-year NCAA Division I Championship Qualifier and a Big East Champion. She also was named Most Valuable Member of the team and Rookie of the Year, and broke nine Rutgers records during her time as an athlete. Wick obtained her Bachelor's of Arts with Honors in Psychology in 2004.