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Head
Coach Steve Mohs
Phone: 712-274-5367
E-Mail: mohs@morningside.edu
 Steve Mohs will enter his fourth season as the head coach of the Mustangs' men's and women's swimming programs during the 2010-11 campaign. Mohs was hired as the third swimming coach in Morningside history on April 25, 2008. Morningside is the only school in the GPAC and the only NAIA school in Iowa to offer varsity men's and women's swimming.
Mohs made an immediate impact in the program. In his first season with the team, Mohs guided the Mustangs to a fifth place finish in the men’s standings and a sixth place finish in the women’s standings at the prestigious Liberal Arts Championships. Morningside swimmers broke seven school records and 14 of the 15 swimmers on the roster qualified for the NAIA National Championships. Both the men’s and women’s teams were cited by the College Swim Coaches Association of America for their academic excellence.
The Mustangs have seen a steady rise in the number of swimmers in their program during Mohs' tenure, with the roster size growing to 41 athletes entering the 2011-12 season.
Mohs came to Morningside from St. Cloud State University, where he had been an assistant coach since 2001. He worked primarily with the Huskies’ distance swimmers and individual medley specialists. Mohs also assisted in the recruitment of student-athletes and was in charge of the team’s off-season conditioning and weight training programs. Aside from his assistant coaching duties at St. Cloud State, Mohs was also the head coach of the St. Cloud Area USA Swimming Club from 2004 to 2006, where he expanded the club’s participants from 75 to over 140.
Mohs is a 2001 graduate of St. Cloud State and was a varsity letterwinner for the men’s swim team. Mohs competed in every event except the 1650-yard freestyle during his collegiate career. He was voted a team captain as a senior and was twice voted by his teammates as the recipient of the Husky of the Year Award given to the person who best represents the team in the pool and in the classroom. Mohs also received the Huskies’ Hardest Worker Award.
He earned a master’s degree in sports management from St. Cloud State in 2007.
Assistant Coach Maggie Fast
 Maggie Fast joins the Mustangs' coaching staff after swimming for the team for the past four seasons.
She is also a Morningside admissions counselor.
Fast, a native of Hastings, Neb., graduated from Morningside in 2010 with a major in biology.
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