Sept. 8, 2004
New Additions in Athletics and Recreation
This summer the Department of Athletics and Recreation fielded a full
squad of new additions. From softball and baseball to sports information,
the department is full of new faces.
Morrison Named Assistant Sports Information
Director
Mike Morrison has been named GWs new assistant sports information
director.
Morrison will serve as the primary media relations contact for the GW
womens basketball team as well as the Colonials mens
soccer and womens lacrosse teams. Morrison spent the last two years
working in the Syracuse University Athletic Communications Office as a
graduate student assistant and intern, while earning his masters
degree in public relations.
GW Makes Mrowka Head Baseball Coach
Steve Mrowka has been hired as the new baseball coach at The George Washington
University, Senior Associate Director of Athletics Mary Jo Warner has
announced. Mrowka replaces former coach Tom Walter who left in July for
a similar position at the University of New Orleans.
Mrowka (pronounced MROW-kah) comes to GW after 11 years at
Georgia College & State University, an NCAA Division II program located
in Milledgeville, GA. At GC&SU, Mrowka posted a 4072312
career record (.638 winning percentage). He guided the Bobcats to the
NCAA Division II Tournament five times (1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002).
Im very excited to have the opportunity to coach baseball
at an outstanding university like George Washington, Mrowka said.
I am eager to work with the competitive, high-quality student-athletes
at GW and am looking forward to taking on the challenges at GW and in
the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Lombard To Lead Lacrosse
Senior Associate Director of Athletics Mary Jo Warner named Chrissy Lombard
head coach for womens lacrosse.
Lombard will be responsible for all aspects of the lacrosse program, which
enters its fourth season as a varsity program in the spring of 2005. Lombard
becomes just the second head coach for lacrosse at GW. She replaces Jennifer
Morris who resigned to pursue other interests.
She has been the assistant coach for GW lacrosse since the programs
inception in 2002. Lombard came to GW after an outstanding playing career
as an All-American attack player for Boston University from 1998 to 2001.
To fill the assistant spot the University selected former Maryland Terrapins
standout Michael Howley.
Howley recently completed a stellar playing career at the University of
Maryland. As a defenseman, he started 60-of-61 career games for the Terrapins
and earned United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association All-American
recognition three times, including first-team accolades as a senior in
2003.
Ferguson Named Softball Head Coach
JoAnne Ferguson was chosen for the softball head coaching position. Ferguson
will be responsible for all aspects of the Colonials softball program,
which begins its third season in the spring of 2005.
She comes to GW from Kenyon College, a Division III school in Gambier,
OH, where she served as head softball coach for the past four seasons
(200003).
During Fergusons years on the KC staff, Kenyon posted a 59731
record, including a 1715 mark in 2004, the teams first winning
season and only the second time in the programs seven-year history
that they qualified for the conference tournament. Ferguson was named
the 2004 North Coast Athletics Conference Coach of the Year. In 2000 her
team won 18 games to set the single-season school record for most victories.
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