TicketsUC Coaching Highlights
- 105 UC Top-10 Times
- 17 UC School Records
- 4 NCAA Qualifiers
- 2 US Olympic Team Trial Semi-finalist
- 2 Big 12 Conference Champions
- 1 All-American
Hetzer is in her second season with the program.
In 2025, Hetzer helped lead the Bearcats through a historic season. The women opened the Big 12 Conference Championship with a program-record and NCAA “A” Standard time in the 200 Medley Relay—marking the Bearcats’ first relay qualification for the NCAA Championships since 1976. Both the men’s and women’s teams went on to win their first Big 12 Conference titles in program history. Individually, Crye captured the 100 Breast title on the women’s side, while Hunter Gubeno claimed victory in the men’s 200 Backstroke. At the NCAA Championships, Joleigh Crye earned All-American honors with a 4th-place finish in the 100 Breaststroke. Crye went on to earn the 2025 UC Student-Athlete of the Year award. The women's team also set a record-setting 3.734 cumulative team GPA over the spring semester. Overall, the teams posted 19 First/Second Team All-Big 12 performances, 17 new school records and earned eight top-three finishes at the Big 12 Championships.
Prior to joining the Bearcats staff, she served as a graduate assistant coach at Georgia Southern University from 2023-24. In this role, she assisted in coaching the swim and dive team, as well as training the student-athletes in endurance-based training. Hetzer aided in coordinating recruiting efforts and team development.
Hetzer competed for Auburn University, where she qualified for the NCAA Championship all five years of her career. She qualified for the Olympic Trials and was a four-time All-American. She is currently ranked among the top-10 all-time marks in Auburn program history in the 400IM, 500 and 1650 freestyles, as well as holding the program’s record in the 1000 freestyle.
Hetzer graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and Exercise Science in August 2022, then added a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Psychology in May 2023.