Bowdoin College

Matt Harmon joined the Bowdoin Track & Field staff in the summer of 2018 as the assistant track and field coach and was promoted to Associate Head Coach of Track & Field in the summer of 2022.
 
At the 2022 NESCAC Championship, Harmon guided the women’s throwers to two individual championships in the shot put and discus and five All-NESCAC honors. Harmon helped coach the women’s throws team to score 59 of the teams 109 points and a 3^rd place finish. Harmon also coached the 2022 New England Champion in the heptathlon while helping her to an NCAA bid, the first at Bowdoin since 2014. 
 
In the 2018-2019 season Harmon helped lead the women to a 3^rd place finish in the NESCAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships, their highest finish in 20 years. The staff was voted NESCAC Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year in 2019. 
 
Previously, Harmon coached at Williams College from 2013-2018 with similar success.  Harmon guided William’s athletes to four individual first place finishes in the NESCAC Championship while also collecting five championships in the New England Division III Championship. Harmon coached a Williams thrower to a national championship in the 2013 NCAA Division III women’s 20# weight throw and the hammer throw. Prior to joining Williams, Harmon served as the throwing coach at Colby College during the 2012-2013 season, where he coached an NCAA qualifier in the women's hammer.

Harmon graduated from The University of Southern Maine (USM) with a B.A. in criminology in 2012.  While competing for the Huskies he earned seventeen all-conference awards and was the 2012 Little East Conference champion in the hammer throw.  Harmon captured USM school records in the hammer, 35-pound weight, and shot put.

Harmon is a 2018 graduate of Concordia University Chicago with a Master of Science degree in kinesiology with a focus in human movement. While also holding certifications from USATF Level 1, USTFCCCA Level 1, and World Throws Center, USTFCCCA Strength and Conditioning certification, as well as National Academy of Sports Medicine, Corrective Exercise Specialist. 

Coach Harmon lives in Poland Maine with his wife Ashley and dog Thor.