CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University men's soccer has added Morgan Sawyer as the team's assistant coach for goalkeepers and Nick Sifrin as the program's director of player development, Josh Shapiro, The Virginia B. and James O. Welch, Jr. '52 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Soccer, announced on Monday.
Sawyer, a former collegiate goalkeeper at Hobart with extensive experience as a goalkeeper coach, and Sifrin, a former collegiate student-athlete at American University, both enter their first season with the Crimson in 2024-25.
Prior to Harvard, Sawyer founded Modus Operandi GK (MOGK) in 2021, serving as the head goalkeeper coach for players in the greater Boston area. Beginning in 2023, Sawyer also served as the senior assistant goalkeeper coach with the Boston Kickers Academy and as the goalkeeper coach for Phillips Academy Andover. Sawyer has also acted as a goalkeeper coach with FC Juventud (2022), the Revere Bolts (2021-22), BLGK Academy (2014-18), and NY Soccer Central (2014-18).
As a student-athlete, Sawyer played as a goalkeeper for Hobart and William Smith at the NCAA Division III level. He earned Liberty League All-Academic Team honors and helped the Statesmen capture the 2017 Liberty League regular season and tournament titles before advancing to the NCAA tournament.
A product of Jamesville-DeWitt High School in Syracuse, New York, Sawyer earned a bachelor's degree in architectural studies from Hobart in 2018 before gaining a master's degree in architecture from the University of Massachusetts in 2021.
Born and raised in Germany, Sifrin played in the Youth Bundesliga academies of SC Paderborn 07 and DSC Arminia Bielefeld. He then moved to the United States, where he played Division I college soccer for two years. During his college career, he competed in all 40 games, scored 16 points, and was selected to the All-Conference Rookie Team of the Year. Sifrin also excelled academically, earning a spot on the Academic Honor Roll each semester and graduating Magna Cum Laude from American University in 2017.
Following his soccer career, Sifrin worked at FC Bayern Munich, the United Nations and in strategy consulting. He is currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School as a candidate in the Class of 2025 while also working as a Research Associate and Teaching Assistant for Professor Arthur Brooks.
