Melissa Giesen enters her second season with Indiana State Women's Swimming & Diving during the 2019-2020 season.
Giesen, wife of former Sycamore basketball player Brian Giesen (1997-2003), comes to Indiana State after a one year coaching stint with the Terre Haute Torpedoes where she was the lead coach for over 50 youth, ages 5-10.
Prior to her time with the Terre Haute Torpedoes, Giesen worked as an instructor at the Vigo County YMCA where she developed high intensity workouts to help participants meet their fitness goals. She taught at First Friends Preschool from 2013-2015 after moving to Terre Haute from Texas in 2013. While in Texas she served as an age group coach for Blue Tide Aquatics from 2010-2012 and she also worked as a classroom teacher in Humble, Texas for nine years. She also served as the head coach for the Walden Waves swim team from 2002-2004, where she was responsible for instructing over 100 beginning swimmers.
After swimming at Indiana University from 1996-1998, she attended Indiana State from 1999-2001. She graduated from ISU with a degree in Education and a minor in Computer Science in 2001.
Giesen attended Gainesville High School in Florida and was the Florida State Champion in the 500-yard freestyle in 1996. During that same year she won Junior Nationals in the 500 and 1650-yard freestyle. Giesen also qualified for the 1996 Olympic Trials.
She and her husband Brian have 4 sons; Nathan, Tyler, Will, and Nolan. Nathan and Tyler carry on the tradition, and are swimmers for Terre Haute North.
