[HMSD] New Men's Assistant Coach

Mark Sowa Named Assistant Coach of Men's Swimming Courtesy: Harvard Athletic Communications Release: 08/09/2007 View larger <javascript:ViewPhoto('296658','300','400','400','296658');> Courtesy: Harvard Athletic Communications http://www.gocrimson.com/ <http://www.gocrimson.com/?ATCLID=1149023&SPSID=41030&SPID=3654&DB_OEM_ID=9000> *CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --* Harvard men's swimming head coach Tim Murphy has announced that Mark Sowa - a veteran of collegiate and international coaching - has been named an assistant coach with the Crimson program. Sowa comes to Harvard after spending the last two years on the coaching staff of the Bahamian national team. He also served as the head senior competitive coach of the Barracuda Swim Club, which won two national championships in the Bahamas. "I am absolutely thrilled to be returning to the Boston area and for the opportunity to coach at one of the best institutions of higher learning in the world," said Sowa. "To be able to work with athletes of the caliber of Harvard's alongside a coach as good as Tim Murphy is really the perfect setting." Sowa also brings significant experience in the collegiate ranks to Cambridge. He served as an assistant with the women's program at Maryland in 2005, helping the Terps to their first Atlantic Coast Conference championship and seeing three Terp swimmers achieve All-America status. He also served as an assistant at Richmond, helping the Spiders to three Atlantic 10 Conference titles. Sowa began his college coaching career as an assistant at Brown in 1999 and spent two years with the Bears. Sowa earned an undergraduate degree, Phi Beta Kappa, from American University and went on to earn a master's degree from Brown.