Nova Southeastern Director of Athletics
Michael Mominey named Stephen Frazier-Wong the new rowing head coach prior to the 2012-13 season, in which Frazier-Wong won the program's first NCAA national championship. Frazier-Wong is the third head coach since the program began in 2004.
During Frazier-Wong's groundbreaking first year, the Sharks went from being the second-place team in the conference to overcoming expectations to sweep the field at the NCAA National Championships. Captain Lauren Boudreau was named an All-American, selected to the All-SSC squad and was nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year. Stephanie Hauck joined Boudreau, being selected to the CRCA All-America squad for the first time in her career.
Senior Amber Morrell led the varisty-4 boat to a dominant season, earning a national championship in its event, and earned All-SSC honors. Frazier-Wong was selected as the SSC and National Coach of the Year in leading his team through its historic run.
Frazier-Wong comes to NSU after seven years at UNC-Chapel Hill. He started out as an assistant coach in 2005 working primarily with the Tar Heels novice crew. In 2009, he was promoted to associate head coach. Frazier-Wong also assisted with the Carolina Rowing summer camps while at Chapel Hill.
Frazier-Wong is no stranger to the Sunshine State Conference, having rowed and coached for SSC rival Rollins. He picked up a pair of SSC Championships during his time with the Tars. The first SSC title came in 1998 as a student-athlete during what was just the second year in which the conference hosted a championship for rowing. As an assistant coach, Frazier-Wong helped lead the Tars to the 2002 SSC Championship.
The 2002 season also represented the first of back-to-back third-place finishes for Rollins at the NCAA Division II Championships.
A 2012 Rollins College Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Frazier-Wong competed with the U.S.A. Senior National Team from 2002-05. Racing in the lightweight men’s double in 2002, his boat placed 10th at the FISA World Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland and 18th at the FISA World Championships in Seville, Spain. The next two seasons, Frazier-Wong competed in the lightweight men’s quad boat, placing sixth in 2003 and fourth in 2004 at the FISA World Championships.
From 2009-11, Frazier-Wong also spent his summers as the head coach of the USRowing Boy’s Junior National Team Development Sculling Camp in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
