Olimpia Nowak Joins Track and Field Coaching Staff
8/24/2015 2:45:00 PM | Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field
KENT, Ohio – Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Bill Lawson announced Olimpia Nowak as assistant track and field coach, Monday, August 24th.
"We are very excited to have Olimpia be a part of the Kent State Track and Field program," Head Coach Bill Lawson stated. "She (Olimpia) will add expertise in the combined events, hurdles and high jump."
Nowak, a native of Rawicz, Poland, was a collegiate athlete at the University of Northern Iowa from 2008-2012. She was a five-time All-American for the Panthers and was crowned the 2010 Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Pentathlon Champion (3,920 pts).
As a Panther, she set the school record in the heptathlon (5,686 pts | 2012), the indoor 60m hurdles (8.35 | 2012) and the pentathlon (4,067 pts | 2012), while she sits in the top-5 in a number of categories.
Lawson added "Olimpia was an outstanding athlete who I had the privilege to see compete on several occasions. Her knowledge and technical experience will become a valuable asset to our program."
She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in May of 2012 from UNI and went on to receive her Masters of Science in Kinesiology and Health Science in May of 2014 from Georgia Regents University in Augusta, Ga.
Nowak comes to the Golden Flashes Track and Field program from the NorthCrest Specialty Care in Waterloo, Iowa as a Certified Nursing Assistant and a Group Fitness Instructor and Body Pump Instructor at the YMCA and Key West Fitness Gym in Waterloo, Iowa.
