Head Coach Steve Schiessl:
Coach Steve Schiessl has 20 plus years of coaching experience at both the club and high
school level. He has worked and continues to work with each level of swimmer on the WAM Swim Club. Coach Steve has had
many State and National qualifiers, including several State, Zone and National Champions. He has won awards as the age
group, conference and state "Coach of the Year". Coach Steve has been a Wisconsin Zone coach numerous times and the Head Coach
on two occasions. His swimmers have gone on to very successful college careers setting many school and conference
records along the way. Coach Steve has also worked at a number of camps and clinics in Wisconsin. He has coached
the Kiel High School and Grafton High School Girls teams as well as the Kiel High School Boys team. His Kiel
High School Girls finished 3rd as a team at State and the Grafton High School Girls were the State runner up and State Champions
twice in his three years at the helm.
Coach Steve lives in Kiel, WI and is the father of five children. He also works
part time for both the Kiel and Grafton Recreation Departments.
Coach & President Jane Halverson:
Coach
Jane Halverson has been working with the WAM swim team since 2006. She is a USA certified stroke and turn official. She
has also a certification as a USA coach which includes Red Cross lifeguard and first aid certification. Jane is active in assisting
with the Kiel High School swim team as well.
Coach Jane lives in Kiel, WI with her husband and three boys. She works full-time
as the Director of Junior Achievement in Sheboygan, Manitowoc and Calumet Counties. All three of her boys swam with WAM over
the years. Two of her sons have been consistently swimming with WAM since 2006. Her sons have completed at both State
and Zone levels.
Coach Dana DeWitt:
Dana is a new coach with a strong passion for the sport of swimming. She was a long-time
WAM swimmer and also swam four years for Kiel High School and four years at UW-Green Bay. She has competed at the State and Zone level
as an age-group swimmer and was a four-year state qualifier and medalist as a high school swimmer. At UW-Green Bay she was the 2006
Horizon League champion in the 200 free, placed in the top eight at the Horizon League championships in a variety of events over her
four- year career, and was a member of champion and record-setting relays. She also helped the women’s team win the Horizon League
conference title each of the four years she competed at UW-Green Bay.
Dana has a B.S. in Psychology from UW-Green Bay and a M.A.
in Kinesiology (emphasis in Sport Psychology) from the University of Minnesota. Currently Dana coaches local high school swim teams
(Sheboygan South girls and Kiel boys) and lives happily with her husband.
