Myanna Cook enters her fourth season coaching with the Sycamores in the 2024-25 season.
Cook helped guide the Sycamores to their fourth consecutive top-three finish at the Missouri Valley Conference Championships in 2022, as Indiana State continues to sit among the conference's top teams in the pool. ISU rewrote the record book throughout the year with 14 records falling throughout the entirety of the 2021-22 season.
In her second year of coaching for ISU, Cook helped lead the Sycamores to a program-best second-place finish at the 2023 MVC Championships and challenged Missouri State until the final day of competition. The Sycamores set 13 new records over the course of the 2022-23 season with 15 different athletes earning 16 All-Conference nods at the championships.
ISU scored a program-record 1294.5 points in the Sycamores' second consecutive runner-up result at the 2024 MVC Championships. Records continued to fall for this coach, as the Sycamores set 11 new school records over the four-day event with 14 Sycamores receiving All-Conference recognition.
Cook works primarily with the Sycamores' distance and butterfly events. She was influential in coaching Marni Gray to the 2023 MVC Championship in the 200-yard Fly, while multiple distance numbers have started to fall over the last three seasons.
Cook swam at Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) and joined the coaching staff during her senior year of college. She qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships her freshman year at Kenyon in the 100 fly. At Kenyon, she coached several NCAA Division III champions in the sprint group. During her time in Gambier, Cook served as Interim Head Coach for a season for SERF Swim Club.
She holds a bachelor's degree in molecular biology from Kenyon College in 2021, where she graduated Cum Laude, and is working towards her Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Indiana University School of Medicine - Terre Haute with plans to become an OBGYN.
