Susanne Divelbiss

Susanne Divelbiss is the head swimming and diving coach at Colorado State University, Pueblo and serves as the swim director for Next Athletes and the Nike Swim Camps.

On June 28, 2021, Susanne Divelbiss became the second CSU Pueblo Head Swimming and Diving Coach in program history. She brought more than 30 years of coaching experience to the ThunderWolves.

Most recently, she was the Pueblo South High School Head Boys and Girls Swimming and Diving Coach. Divelbiss coached the Pueblo South Girls squad for 14 years and the Boys team for 12 seasons. She also worked at the Pueblo Swim Club for nearly 15 years with eight and a half of them as the Head Coach and Executive Director.

During her tenure at South HS, at least one member of her squads, both boys and girls, qualified for state every season. She guided one girls team member to five state championships. She collected many league titles and tutored multiple all-conference student-athletes while at South HS.

In addition to her coaching duties, Divelbiss also worked for Pueblo City Schools as a Student Data Coordinator in Student Support Services and as a Data Secretary at South HS.

Divelbiss started her collegiate career at Grossmont Junior College where she was a junior college state champion. She then competed in the pool and earned a degree at University of California Berkeley. She graduated in 1987 with a Bachelors of Arts in Social Sciences, with her field major in Sociology, Legal Studies and Economics.

Divelbiss and her husband, Mike, have three children (one boy and two girls). Mike is a retired teacher from Pueblo City Schools. All three children, Thomas, Samantha and Alex, swam and still hold records at South HS. Alex was a three-time NCAA Division II National Champion and multiple All-American award winner at Wingate University. She was a graduate assistant for the swimming and diving program at Wingate after completing her undergraduate degree. Samantha swam two years at Shasta College in California and then completed her degree at CSU Pueblo. She served as the Centennial High School Boys Swim and Dive Coach for two seasons.