Morgan Sawyer, a former collegiate goalkeeper at Hobart with extensive experience as a goalkeeper coach, enters his third season as an assistant coach working with goalkeepers for Harvard men’s soccer in 2026-27.
Sawyer helped guide the Crimson to a finish in the top half of the Ivy League standings for the fifth consecutive season in 2025 as Harvard came in fourth place in the conference table and earned a spot in the Ivy League Tournament for the second time in three seasons. Sawyer coached Ivy League Rookie of the Year Adam Poliakov ’29 as one of four All-Ivy honorees and mentored six CSC Academic All-District selections.
In 2024, Harvard finished in a tie for fourth place in the Ivy League standings, placing in the top half of the conference table for the fourth consecutive season. The Crimson tallied six CSC Academic All-District selections while Jan Riecke ’25 earned All-Ivy honors for the fourth straight season.
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.
