Coaches and Directors

Sheryl Tucker

Sheryl began swimming with the Davenport YMCA under an AAU program at the age of 9. It was a family affair. Her Father being the starter and official at many meets, including the University of Iowa, and her mother involved heavily in swimming at the state level as an officer and as an official. Sheryl swam age group, high school, and in college as a 200 Butterflier and 400 IM'er. She graduated from the Univesity of Iowa in Health Sciences and Business and went on with her husband to own their private practice in Anesthesia, while still coaching part time in Swimming and Track & field for 25 years and raising two boys. She has coached at age group level, high school level, and college level, until recently moving from North Carolina as the Lead Senior Coach at SwimMAC, the number 2 team in the country at the time. She believes in hard work, combined with a balance of technique, love of the sport, and continued growth both in the pool and out of the pool.

Sheryl has competed at the World Championship level in running, in the indoor 3000m, the mile, and 10K cross country race, and as an all american, Top 5 US Performer age 32-44, qualified for the USA triathlon championships, held the Iowa record for masters in the 200 Free, Top 50 overall Chicago Marathon, a State swimming qualifier top 8 for 3 years, (10-12th grade at that time), and was Conference swimmer of year in college, with many swimming awards in high school, and college, as well as records. She loves the social aspect of sport and the feeling of accomplishment and teaching her skills and what she has learned from other great coaches she has had the priviledge to work with to others now in the sport of swimming. She still swims as a Masters swimmer and looks forward to perhaps competing once again. Sheryl will serve on the 2024 Olympic Trial Comittee for the upcoming Olympics to be held in Paris.

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Chloe Crist

Chloe started swimming at the age of six for the Cedar Rapids Stoney Point YMCA team. Spending her elementary and middle school years there, she then swam for the MACR Sharks and Kennedy Senior High School up until graduation. While under Stoney Point Chloe received swimmer of the year. She also was a yearly participant in the Iowa Games, held at Loras College in Dubuque. Throughout her swimming career, every season she consistently qualified for state and regional championship meets. Being a well rounded swimmer she enjoyed every possible event, but her favourite were the 400IM, 200 breast, and the 50 free. 

Outside of swimming Chloe has spent her years Lifeguarding and teaching group swim lessons, along with private lessons for competitive swimmers. Her love for water stretches beyond the sport of swimming, spending summers on the lake and swimming recreationally. Loving swimming all her life, Chloe wishes to spread the enjoyment of the sport and help build individual confidence in swimmers, creating a life long love for the sport. 

Elisabeth Sperlakis

Elizabeth began swimming with the Fox Valley Family YMCA at the age of 10. As a member of the Fox Valley Family YMCA swim team, she broke all event records for each age division for over 7 years. She was a member of the national relay team to represent her swim team on the national stage for the first time in program history. She became a swim coach for the Fox Valley Family YMCA at the age of 16 and worked with the younger age groups until she moved to college.

Elizabeth swam for Rosary High School for all four years and competed on both the Junior Varsity and Varsity teams. She had the opportunity to represent the Beads at conferences, sectionals, and state during her final two years of high school. She went on to receive her bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration at Carroll University. Elizabeth was a member of the Carroll University Swim and Dive team as well as a member of the Marching Pioneers. In Wisconsin, she had the opportunity to coach for the Glacial Community YMCA and the Special Olympics team.

Elizabeth currently is completing her MSN at Elmhurst University while living in Iowa City. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, baking, and swimming. A fun fact about Elizabeth is that she is currently a member of the University of Iowa Hawkeye Marching Band and plays the piccolo!