Wisconsin Badgers

Kisting joined UW as a volunteer assistant coach in 2022 after attending Duke University where she earned an master's drgree in biology and served as a graduate assistant coach in 2017.
 
She was a member of ARION, a USRowing High Performance club from 2018-21 and a member of USRowing Princeton Training Center from 2017-18. 
 
After graduating from Duke, Kisting served as an assistant coach at Saratoga Rowing Association from 2018-21, where she worked with varsity boys and middle school groups.
 
During her season at Duke, Kisting finished second at the Pac-12 Challenge and Virginia Duals with the second varsity eight squad and helped the varsity eight to a second-overall finish in the ACC Championship, Duke’s best since 2006. Kisting finished her graduate season at Duke with a 18th overall finish at the program’s first NCAA championship appearance.
 
Before attending Duke, Kisting attended the University of Illinois where she spent four years with the Illinois Women’s Rowing Club and served as president for three years. She was named the team’s 2012 Rowing Athlete of the Year and received ACRA Second Team All-America and ACRA All-Great Lakes Region in 2014 and 2015.
 
Kisting graduated from Illinois in 2015 with a degree in biochemistry. She currently works as a research intern in the Department of Biology within the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.