Chris Morgan begins his first season as an assistant coach for the Harvard women's swimming and diving team. Morgan brings 19 years of coaching experience to the Crimson on both the collegiate and international levels.

Morgan spent the 2011-12 as a member of the Stanford coaching staff, helping the Cardinal to a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Championships. Stanford won national titles in the 200 free relay and 400 free relay at the meet, and earned 33 All-America honors after taking second at the Pac-12 Championships.

Morgan coached in Switzerland from 1998-2011, most recently at Vevey Natation (2009-11) as the head coach. From 2004-2008 he was the head coach and technical director for Geneve Natation 1885, and was named the 2007 Coach of the Year. Prior to that he was a head coach at Red Fish Neuchatel (2000-2004) and served as an assistant at Geneve Natation 1885 (1998-1999).

Three of Morgan’s athletes competed at the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing, Switzerland's Jonathan Massacand, Barbados' Andrei Cross and Montenegro's Marina Kuc. His international coaching experience has also included the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the 2010 European Championships in Hungary, the 2009 World Championships in Rome, the European Short Course Championships in Croatia in 2008 and in Hungary in 2007, and three World University Games in Thailand in 2007, Turkey in 2005 and South Korea in 2003.

Morgan’s teams won eight Swiss club championships from 2000-2011 while his athletes won 30 national titles and 10 relay titles. Lang set six Swiss national records in the freestyle and backstroke with Massacand setting five Swiss records in the back and individual medley. Morgan saw over 30 of his athletes earn a spot on the Swiss national team and has sent athletes to eight world championships, 14 university games and 18 European championships.

A 1994 graduate of UC Davis with a degree in biological sciences, Morgan earned his Masters in human movement and sports sciences from the University of Geneva in 2002. While at UC Davis, Morgan was a conference champion in the 100 fly his junior season in 1992.

Morgan began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Stanford under the late Richard Quick from 1994-98. In 1995-96 he was the assistant women's coach at San Jose State, and prior to that he was a high school coach at Palo Alto's Gunn High School (1994-97) for both the boy's and girl's programs. His first coaching job was as a JV coach at Los Altos High in 1993-94.