Women's Track & Field
- Title:
- Assistant Coach - Combined Events and Operations
- Email:
- onowak@kent.edu
- Phone:
- 330-672-8442
Olimpia Nowak joined the Kent State Track and Field coaching staff in August of 2015.
"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 plans to finish her Masters degree in Kinesiology.
