McCormick enters her second season with the Allegheny coaching staff after serving her first year over the 2016-2017 campaign. In her first year, McCormick designed and coached all student-athletes in the team's dry land and lifting programs in addition to working with all groups in the water while focusing on the sprinters. She also utilized her Sport and Exercise Psychology background by running both the team's Imagery and Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) sessions. McCormick serves as the recruiting coordinator for the Gators, helping to bring in 16 freshman to the class of 2021.
In addition, McCormick has been serving as a volunteer with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) on Allegheny's campus, and has also served in the high schools and other colleges in the past.
She arrived in Meadville from Minnesota State University, Mankato where she spent two years as a volunteer coach for the women's swimming and diving program. She specialized in coaching sprint, freestyle, and butterfly, and helped design dry-land conditioning workouts for the entire team. The Mavericks sent a number of swimmers to the NCAA Division II Championships, and had All-Americans in 2015 and 2016, the first two since the 2010-11 campaign.
The Caledonia, Minnesota native swam collegiately at Division I University of Northern Iowa, where she was a four-year letter winner and team captain during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons. Twice she garnered Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Swimming & Diving Scholar Athlete accolades, adding the Leadership and Service Award from the league in 2014 along with a nomination for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award. McCormick also collected a trio of honors in 2014 with the Lux Award and Women at Play Scholarship from Northern Iowa, as well as the MVC Presidential Academic Excellence Award. Recently, she received the Jean Freeman Scholarship by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) and SUMMIT, which is given to one male and one female from each division of the NCAA.
McCormick has worked the Bauerle Bulldog Swim Camp at the University of Georgia, and has previously coached novice and age group swimmers at Black Hawk Area Swim Team (BLAST) in Cedar Falls, Iowa from 2013-14. She served as a coach, instructor, and lifeguard for the Lakeville Family Swim School in Lakeville, Minnesota in 2012 and grew up swimming for the La Crosse, Wisconsin YMCA Wave swim team.
McCormick graduated from Northern Iowa in 2014 with her Bachelor of Arts degree in movement and exercise science with a double emphasis in exercise science and sport psychology as well as a minor in coaching. She recently received her Master of Arts degree in sport and exercise psychology from MSU-Mankato.
