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 Steve Hargis led the Bears to five NCAA Championship appearances in a six year span.
Each year, Olympic and Pan American sport organizations select their nominations for the USOC Coach of the Year Recognition Program. The program seeks to elevate the status of coaching as a profession and recognize the best coaches in the United States. Coaches were judged based on coaching performance, the ethics and character of the coach, the attitude of athletes, service to the sport and volunteer work within the sport.
Hargis, who served as USRowing’s junior women’s head coach from 2004-2008, has made a tremendous impact on the sport of women’s rowing, both winning medals at the junior level and developing athletes for the senior and Olympic levels. Last year, his efforts culminated in both winning a gold medal in the junior women’s eight, a first in U.S. history, at the 2008 FISA World Rowing Senior and Junior Championships and seeing three of his junior development athletes make the 2008 Olympic Team, including two who helped the U.S. win gold in the women’s eight in Beijing.
In November of last year, Hargis was named USRowing’s Junior National Team Development Coach. In his new position, Hargis is leading USRowing’s junior national team development program for both the men and women.
Hargis just completed his tenth season as Director of Rowing at the Coast Guard Academy. He took a year off this season as head coach of the women’s team which he led to the NCAA Division III National Championships in five of his last six seasons. He led the Bears to back-to-back New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championships in 2007 and 2008. In 2008, the Bears became the first at-large boat to make the Grand Final at the NCAA Championships. He is a two-time NEWMAC Coach of the Year and and he was the Division III Coach of the Year in 2003. |
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