Teresa Zurick Fish joined the IWU coaching staff in 1995 and promptly led the men's swimming team to its first-ever College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin championship in 1996.

A native of Darien, Ill., and a graduate of Hinsdale South High School, Zurick earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1988 at Kenyon (Ohio) College, where she won 14 NCAA Division III swimming titles performing for the perennial national team champion, and she was also a GTE® Academic All-American.

Zurick earned a master's degree at Duke University and was pursuing a doctorate in biochemistry at Duke when she elected to start her coaching career at IWU. In Durham, N.C., she coached United States Swimming and YMCA age group programs and also coached the Durham Academy girls' team to a high school state championship in 1994. In 2002, Teresa was married to John Fish (IWU men's tennis coach).