Dartmouth Announces Fowler Will Not Return as Head Coach in 2020

HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth Director of Athletics and Recreation Harry Sheehy announced today that field hockey head coach Amy Fowler will not return for the 2020 season.

Fowler served as the head coach of the Big Green for 20 seasons, taking over the program in 2000 and amassing 155 wins, the most in the program's 48 years of competition.

"We are grateful to Amy for her service and dedication to her student-athletes over the last two decades, and we wish her the best in all future endeavors," Sheehy said.

During her tenure, Fowler led the Big Green to eight top-three finishes in the Ivy League, including three second-place showings behind national power Princeton. The 2012 team set a program record for single-season Ivy League victories, closing out the year with a 6-1 mark.

Fowler has coached some of the best players ever to come through Hanover, including Kelly Hood '12, Ali Savage '15 and Lauren Welsh '03, the top three scorers in program history. In 2011, Hood was named the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year in the award's inaugural season.

This past season and under Fowler's tutelage, Katie Spanos earned her third All-Ivy League honor and moved into the top-10 in both goals and points at Dartmouth. In 20 years at the helm, her players earned 23 All-Ivy First Team nods, a total of 62 all-conference honors and two All-America selections.

This was Fowler's second stint with the Green and White as she served as an assistant under Julie Dayton during the 1994 and '95 seasons before spending the next three years at James Madison as an assistant.

A standout at the University of Iowa, Fowler was a three-time All-American for the Hawkeyes and played in the NCAA Tournament all four years, reaching the Final Four three times. In her final season as a player, she was tabbed as the 1992 Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year.

A national search will begin immediately to fill the role.

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