Men's Outdoor Track and Field Coastal Carolina Athletic Communications

Fowler Added to USATF Coaching Staff for 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. – Coastal Carolina's Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Sandy Fowler has been named to the track and field staff of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Games, announced by USA Track and Field on Wednesday.

Fowler most recently represented Team USA as an assistant coach for throws at the 2019 IAAF World Championships and 2019 Pan Am Games where her squads excelled. Between the two prestigious competitions, she had a combined 12 athletes finish in the top five of their respective events including first-place finishes by Gwen Berry (Pan Am Games - Hammer Throw), Deanna Price (World Championships - Hammer Throw), and Kara Winger (World Championships - Javelin).

Fowler is no stranger to the international track and field scene as she held the title of assistant coach on the 2017 IAAF World Championship staff in London, the 2014 Pan Am Sports Festival in Mexico City, Mexico,  the 2013 IAAF World Championships staff in Moscow, Russia, and the team's head coach at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland.

"This is an incredible honor to be selected as a member of the 2020 Olympic Games staff in Tokyo.  To assist the best track and field team in the world at the highest level is a very humbling and exciting experience.  I feel very special in that I had the opportunity to work with the elite athletes at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, as that experience has put me in the position to not only assist the athletes but win medals for team USA in the 2020 Olympics." Fowler proudly explained.

Prior to joining Coastal Carolina in April 2017, Fowler spent five seasons as an assistant coach for the University of Michigan women's track and field program. Fowler's other coaching accolades include a year 14-year (1997-2011) stint as the head women's track and field coach at the University of Alabama and eight years (1989-97) as the field events coach at the University of Florida.

Coach Fowler was an Olympic alternate in 1980 and a nine-time All-American from Northeastern University where she garnered national championship in 1982 in the shot put.

Next year's 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will take place on Friday, July 24 to Sunday, Aug.9. in Tokyo, Japan.

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