Mark Sowa Named Assistant Coach of Men's Swimming
Courtesy: Harvard Athletic Communications
Release: 08/09/2007
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*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.