INDIANAPOLIS, IND. – Coastal Carolina's Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Sandy Fowler will once again represent Team USA, as she has been named to the track & field staff for the 2023 Pan American Games, it was announced by USA Track & Field.
 
The 2023 Pan American Games will take place in Santiago, Chile, from Oct. 20 through Nov. 5.
 
Fowler most recently represented Team USA as an assistant coach for throws at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. She has also served as an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2019 IAAF World Championships and the 2019 Pan American Games, where her squads excelled.
 
Between the three prestigious competitions, she had a combined 14 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), Kara Winger (World Championships - Javelin), and most recently, Valarie Allman (Olympics – Discus Throw) in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
 
Fowler is no stranger to the international track & 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.

Fowler has led the Coastal cross country and track & field programs since 2017, taking the program to new heights with multiple All-Americans and the University's first-ever individual NCAA National Champion in Melissa Jefferson at the 2022 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships.
 
Prior to joining Coastal Carolina in April 2017, Fowler spent five seasons as an assistant coach for the University of Michigan women's track & field program. Fowler's other coaching accolades include a 14-year (1997-2011) stint as the head women's track & 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 won a national championship in 1982 in the shot put.
 
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