Bowdoin College Women's Track

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 3rd 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 3rd 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.    

Richardson joined the Bowdoin track & field coaching staff in the spring of 2015. A 2014 gradute of Marshall University, Richardson will coach the horizontal jumps and assist with sprint coaching and strength & conditioning for the Polar Bears. Jasia placed 16th in the 2014 NCAA Division I triple jump for outdoor track. She has a triple jump personal best of 13.56 (446) which ended up as the fourth best mark in Division I for 2014 and earned multiple Conference USA All-Conference honors. Jasia has also served as an intern with the Marshall University strength & conditioning staff.

Ruddy, a senior member of the Bowdoin coaching staff and an Associate Director of Athletics, rejoined the track & field program in 2001. Coach Ruddy is the team's high jump and hurdles coach. She served as the indoor championship liaison on the NCAA Division III Track & Field Committee from 1997-2001. Throughout her 30-year career at Bowdoin College, she has coached several All-Americans and All-New England athletes in the sports of swimming, cross-country, and track & field and was a long-time volleyball coach at the school. Ruddy is a graduate of UW-Oshkosh and a native of Wisconsin and proudly holds the lowest 'certified' golf handicap of anyone on the Bowdoin Athletics staff.

At Bowdoin Coaches jumping events with a focus on horizontal jumps Coached multiple All-NESCAC honorees and NCAA qualifiers   Coaching Resume 2021-present: Assistant Coach of Men’s and Women’s Track & Field at Bowdoin College 2018-2020: Assistant Coach of Men’s and Women’s Track & Field at Colby College   Education & Certifications Graduation from Colby College in 2018 Double major in English and American Studies Studied abroad at the University of Botswana for one semester   Athletic Career Sprinter and member of relay teams at Colby Earned multiple All-Maine, All-NESCAC, and All-New England honors Qualified for 2017 NCAA DIII Championships with the 4x400-meter relay team    

Slovenski will begin his 28th season as the head coach of the men's and women's cross country, men's and women's indoor track & Field, and men's and women's outdoor track & field teams. Slovenski has led the men's cross country team to the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship in 1991, 2001 and 2002. In 1994, the women's cross country team became the first team in Bowdoin history to qualify for a NCAA Division III Championship, and the Polar Bears recorded a seventh-place finish. Since 1989, Men's and Women's Cross Country and Track teams have won seven NESCAC championships, three ECAC championships and one New England championship. "There is an impressive collaboration between the academic and athletic efforts of Bowdoin students," according to Coach Slovenski. "The same discipline and commitment that makes Bowdoin athletes excel in regional and national athletic competition also makes them excel in the classroom." Slovenski has coached over 50 All-Americans at Bowdoin and served as the meet director for the 1989 and 1993 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Bowdoin. Slovenski is a 1979 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he was a four-year letterwinner in winter and spring track. He set freshman records in the decathlon and pole vault and was an All-Ivy track selection in the pole vault in 1977 and 1978. He received an M.A. in educational administration and policy analysis from Stanford University in 1980. To contact Coach Slovenski, you can email him at .

At Bowdoin In first season, coached four runners to qualify for the NCAA DIII Cross Country Championships The most since 2012 Coaching Resume 2021-present: Head Coach of Cross Country at Bowdoin College; Assistant Coach of Track & Field at Bowdoin College 2014-2020: Head Coach of Cross Country and Track & Field at California Institute of Technology 2012-2013: Head Coach of Cross Country at Huntingdon College; Assistant Coach of Track & Field at Huntingdon College 2011: Assistant Coach of Cross Country at Williams College 2010: Interim Head Coach of Cross Country at Smith College 2009-2011: Assistant Cross Country and Track & Field Coach at Smith College 2008-2009: Assistant Track & Field Coach at Grinnell College   Education & Certifications Graduated from Grinnell College in 2008 Bachelor’s Degree in History Earned Master’s Degree in Exercise & Sports Studies from Smith College in 2011   Athletic Career Competed in Cross Country and Track & Field at Grinnell