Daniel Dozier joined the Harvard men's swimming and diving program as its assistant head coach in Sept. 2022, and was promoted to associate head coach in July of 2024. The 2025-26 campaign will be his fourth in Cambridge after a three-season stint at West Virginia.
Through recruiting and development, Dozier helped keep Harvard in the national conversation in 2024-25 as it appeared in the preseason rankings and maintained its top-25 position for the first two months of the season. After a 7-0 start, the Crimson rose to as high as No. 23 in the CSCAA rankings. Harvard later finished in second place at the Ivy League Championship and sent three relays and one individual to the NCAA Championships. Following the season, Anthony Rincon '25 -- a 2024 Paris Olympian -- captured First-Team Academic All-America honors, becoming the first Harvard athlete to earn first-team accolades since 2009.
In Year 2 with Harvard, Dozier helped the 2023-24 edition of the Crimson win its seventh consecutive Ivy League title. Harvard, which played host to the conference meet, won by a 361-point margin after racking up 21 all-Ivy nods, including 14 first-team selections. Dozier helped a pair of Crimson athletes reach the NCAA Championships, including Will Grant '24, who also earned Academic All-America accolades.
In his first campaign with the Crimson (2022-23), Dozier helped the program capture its sixth straight Ivy League title as Harvard became the first Ancient Eight school to claim six consecutive outright conference crowns. Along the way, the Crimson collected 16 All-Ivy accolades, including eight first-team honors, and two Academic All-America awards. Dozier also helped Harvard qualify two individuals and five relays earn NCAA Championship invitations.
A former swimmer at UNC Wilmington, Dozier supported both the men’s and women’s teams while at WVU. During his time in Morgantown, Dozier helped the Mountaineers tally five All-Americans, five NCAA qualifiers and 106 Academic All-Big 12 selections. He additionally was on staff when West Virginia had both programs earn CSCAA Scholar All-America accolades in 2019-20.
Dozier began his collegiate coaching career at UNC Asheville, spending three years with the Bulldogs (2016-19). Under his tutelage, UNC Asheville established 39 school records and saw nearly a 300-point improvement at the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association Championship during his tenure. In the classroom, Dozier helped the Bulldogs continue their tradition of excellence as they landed on the CSCAA Scholar All-America team list each semester while he was on campus.
For his efforts in Asheville, Dozier was one of six recipients of the 2019 CSCAA Jean Freeman Scholarship, given annually to assistant coaches whose exceptional contributions have brought recognition to their college or university, and whose leadership, integrity, honesty, competitive attitude, and personal graciousness epitomize those characteristics reflected by Jean Freeman, the longtime women’s swimming coach at Minnesota.
Prior to his start in college, Dozier was the head coach at Quail Hollow Swim Club from 2013-14 before moving on to Waves of Wilmington where he served as a senior group coach from 2015-16.
Dozier, originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise science from UNC Wilmington, helping the Seahawks to back-to-back CAA titles. In his final season, he served as team co-captain.
