Cindy Ikeler is in her sixth year as Cabrini's head swim coach and director of aquatics and safety in 2017-18. In addition to her coaching duties, Ikeler oversees programming, operations and maintenance of the Dixon Center Natatorium.
In her five seasons as head coach, Ikeler has led the Cavaliers to unprecedented heights, including the program's first AMCC Women's Championship in 2014, a performance for which Ikeler earned her second consecutive AMCC Coach of the Year honor. Ikeleer added her third AMCC Coach of the Year honor in 2017.
Under Ikeler's leadership, the Cavaliers have rrewritten the priogram's record books. Since the 2012-13 season, the Blue and White have broken 29 of the program's 38 records, including 11 during the 2016-17 campaign.
Ikeler has led the Blue and White women to three consecutive second place finishes in 2015, 2016 and 2017, while the men's teams have finished third in two of the last three years.
In addition to their success at the season-ending conference meet, the Cavaliers have qualified for the ECAC Championships in each of the last four seasons. The women made their inaugural appearance at the postseason meet in 2013 as the only Division III program at the meet. One year later, the men qualified for the meet, marking the team's first appearance at the meet since 2011.
Ikeler made an immediate impact on the Cabrini swim teams, as both their best ever finishes at the 2013 AMCC Championships. Ikeler was named AMCC Coach of the Year after leading the women's team to a second place finish, while both teams combined for a 83 point improvement over the clubs' 2012 performances.
Ikeler came to Cabrini after six years as the assistant swim coach and assistant aquatics director at Albright College. During her time at Albright, the Lions won five Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) titles, including sweeping both the men and women’s championships at the 2012 meet.
Ikeler has assisted in the careers of some of the MAC’s most successful swimmers, including nine conference Most Outstanding Swimmers and six Rookies of the Year, not to mention a host of individual and relay conference champions.
As Albright’s assistant aquatics director, Ikeler assisted in scheduling and programming Albright’s Life Sports Center Pool. Some of those programs included an extensive learn-to-swim program, aqua aerobics, scuba classes and Red Cross lifesaving/CPR classes.
A 2005 graduate of Albright, Ikeler was a highly decorated member of the Lions’ 2001-05 swim teams. She was a member of three MAC championship teams, while amassing six individual and 14 relay titles. Ikeler was a four-time First Team All-MAC performer and was named MAC Outstanding Swimmer as a freshman. She achieved NCAA provisional qualifying standards in all four years.
Ikeler graduated Summa Cum Laude, earning a bachelor of arts degree with co-concentration in criminology/sociology and Spanish. She claimed ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America Third Team honors as a senior.
Ikeler, her husband, Andy, also a former Albright swimmer, and their son, Austin, currently reside in Chester Springs, PA.
