Steven Mohs Named Associate Head Coach at South Dakota

VERMILLION, S.D.—Jason Mahowald, the head swimming and diving coach at the University of South Dakota, is pleased to announce that Steven Mohs has been named associate head coach for the Coyotes. Mohs has 15 years of collegiate coaching experience including four years as head coach at Morningside College (2008-12) and four more as head coach at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn., (2012-16).

“I am excited to add Steve to our staff,” said Mahowald. “He brings more than 16 years of coaching experience including time spent with Olympic coaches Greg Meehan of Stanford and Eddie Reese of Texas. Steve will make an immediate impact on our program.”

Mohs has traveled the country to work different swim camps, most notably the Texas Longhorn Swim Camp and the Stanford International Swim Camp where he worked alongside Reese and Meehan, respectively. He has spent this past year as an assistant swim coach for Granite City Aquatics Swim Club in St. Cloud, Minn.

Mohs attended Sauk Rapids-Rice High School near St. Cloud and attended St. Cloud State University where he was a captain on the swim team and earned his bachelor’s degree in sports management in 2001. He began his coaching career that fall as a graduate assistant for the swim program at St. Cloud and was later hired as an assistant coach. He worked primarily with distance swimmers and individual medley specialists, and was in charge of the team’s off-season conditioning and weight training programs.

Morningside offered Mohs his first head coaching gig in 2008. In four years with the Mustangs, Mohs expanded the program’s roster from 15 to 40 student-athletes. Morningside boasted 44 NAIA national qualifiers and had 35 athletes set individual records in his four seasons. He was named Coach of the Year in 2012 after leading Morningside’s women’s team to a third-place finish at the NAIA Liberal Arts Conference Championship meet.

Mohs moved from Morningside to St. Catherine in 2012. In four years in St. Paul, Mohs helped the program set 13 individual records on the women’s side and three team records. Members of his program were named SCU Athlete of the Year twice, and earned two MIAC Diver of the Year awards. The Wildcats placed in the top-six of 11 teams in all four years at the MIAC Championships.

Mohs joins a Coyote program that placed third on the women’s side and fourth on the men’s side at the 2017 Summit League Championship Meet. South Dakota’s women have placed in the top three in each of the past two seasons.

The above press release was provided by South Dakota Athletics.

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