Chris Morgan begins his second season as an assistant coach forthe Harvard women's swimming and diving team in 2013-14. Morganbrings 20 years of coaching experience to the Crimson on both thecollegiate and international levels.
Last season, Morgan helped the Crimson to its second straight7-0 Ivy League dual record and a 9-0 dual mark overall. Harvardqualified two swimmers for the NCAA Championships, Sara Li '14 andCourtney Otto '15, broke 10 school records over the course of theseason (eight individual, two relay), and swept Princeton and Yaleat the annual HYP meet with a 100-point win over Princeton and a209-89 blowout over Yale at the Tigers' DenunzioPool.
Morgan spent the 2011-12 as a member of the Stanford coachingstaff, helping the Cardinal to a fourth-place finish at the NCAAChampionships. Stanford won national titles in the 200 free relayand 400 free relay at the meet, and earned 33 All-America honorsafter taking second at the Pac-12 Championships.
Morgan coached in Switzerland from 1998-2011, most recently atVevey Natation (2009-11) as the head coach. From 2004-2008 he wasthe head coach and technical director for Geneve Natation 1885, andwas named the 2007 Coach of the Year. Prior to that he was a headcoach at Red Fish Neuchatel (2000-2004) and served as an assistantat Geneve Natation 1885 (1998-1999).
Three of Morgan’s athletes competed at the 2008 OlympicsGames in Beijing, Switzerland's Jonathan Massacand, Barbados'Andrei Cross and Montenegro's Marina Kuc. His internationalcoaching experience has also included the 2008 Olympics in Beijing,the 2010 European Championships in Hungary, the 2009 WorldChampionships in Rome, the European Short Course Championships inCroatia in 2008 and in Hungary in 2007, and three World UniversityGames in Thailand in 2007, Turkey in 2005 and South Korea in2003.
Morgan’s teams won eight Swiss club championships from2000-2011 while his athletes won 30 national titles and 10 relaytitles. Lang set six Swiss national records in the freestyle andbackstroke with Massacand setting five Swiss records in the backand individual medley. Morgan saw over 30 of his athletes earn aspot on the Swiss national team and has sent athletes to eightworld championships, 14 university games and 18 Europeanchampionships.
A 1994 graduate of UC Davis with a degree in biologicalsciences, Morgan earned his Masters in human movement and sportssciences from the University of Geneva in 2002. While at UC Davis,Morgan was a conference champion in the 100 fly his junior seasonin 1992.
Morgan began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant atStanford under the late Richard Quick from 1994-98. In 1995-96 hewas the assistant women's coach at San Jose State, and prior tothat he was a high school coach at Palo Alto's Gunn High School(1994-97) for both the boy's and girl's programs. His firstcoaching job was as a JV coach at Los Altos High in 1993-94.
