Colorado Mesa University Athletics

Kinsey Laine is in her first season as the Mavericks’ head triathlon coach and comes to the Maverick program with a strong pedigree as both a professional athlete and endurance sport coach.  She joined the Maverick program in the spring of 2021 as an assistant coach for Mickey Wender and has since switched spots with Wender.

Laine also serves as an assistant coach for the Maverick swimming and diving program.

In April of 2021, she helped guide the Mavericks to a dual meet win over Black Hills State, the Mavs' only triathlon competition of the pandemic-effected school year.  Nine Mavericks were also named as CTCA/USA Triathlon Scholar All-Americans during the spring.
 
In 2018 and 2019, Laine raced professionally, recording five top-5 finishes in the Ironman 70.3 (half-distance) series during the 2019 season, including a victory at an event in Xi’an, China in September, 2019.  Those results helped her earn career-high No. 65 ranking in the Professional Triathletes Organization (PTO) World Ranking system.
 
Based in Bend, Oregon at the time, she also coached individual triathletes and cyclists in the area and coached the Bend Swim Club team as well.
 
Prior to her professional career, Laine served as the assistant women’s swimming coach at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, where she was the primary coach for the Nanooks’ distance swimmers, helping her student-athletes break the school records in all three distance freestyle events (500, 1000 and 1,650).  She also coached the Nanooks’ lone NCAA Division II Championship qualifier of 2017, Cassidy Heaton, in her final season in Fairbanks.
 
While coaching, she also completed a master’s degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in coaching education through Georgia Southern in 2016.
 
Laine was also a NCAA Division II student-athlete for the Nanooks, competing in swimming for four years and cross country as a senior while completing her bachelor’s degree in economics in 2011.
 
Laine originally hails from Silver Lake, Washington and graduated from Toutle Lake High School, where she swam and played water polo.
 
Laine, who still hopes to continue racing, lives in Grand Junction with her dogs and running partners Luna and Zee.