Chris Morgan: Mentor, Educator, Motivator, Navigator, Announcer

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A day in the life of coach and open water swimmer Chris Morgan is always interesting.

The scope of people and the range of their talents and dreams are incredible to learn.

Whatever he does and wherever he goes, Morgan is often a Witness to Greatness or a Counsel to Audacity.

Over the last 12 months alone, his Rolodex of contacts ranging from Guinness World Records holders (in pull-ups, channel swimming, marathon swimming, and continuous pool swimming including Antonio Argüelles and Yuko Matsuzaki) to Olympians and professional sports teams like the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball, the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, and the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer.

On any given day, Morgan could provide specific training advice to track coaches, or baseball trainers, or talk with Winter Olympic athletes like Apolo Ohno, an 8-time Olympic medalist in speed skating, or Francesco Friedrich, a 4-time Olympic gold medalist in bobsledding, or Summer Olympic athletes like 400m hurdles gold medalist and world record holder Kevin Young, 2-time Olympic medalist swimmer Noemi Lung Zaharia, PhD of Romania, and Olympic medalists Caeleb Dressel, Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, and Carson Foster in Paris.

During the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, he served as a French-speaking commentator for French TV2 for pool swimming – and the multi-linguist will also provide live commentary at the upcoming IISA 6th World Championship in Molveno, Italy on the IISA YouTube Channel.

Because his former career as a collegiate coach at Stanford University and Harvard University, he also interviewed leading Olympic coaches who are also college coaches like Bob Bowman of the University of Texas, Matt Kredich of University of Tennessee, David Marsh, Josh Huger, and Dave Durden of University of California Berkeley, Sergio López Miró of Virginia Tech and the Spanish Olympic team, but also top coaches in surfing like Kāhea Hart and Jesse Salas.

He also drives safety boats at the BEST SWIM in Mallorca, Spain and for Kent Nicholas at SCAR.

He teaches KAATSU to billionaire businessmen like Bill Ackman, scientists like MIT professor Neri Oxman, PhD, Harvard Medical School professor of neurology Peter Lansbury, PhD, and virologist Harriet Strimpel, PhD.

He is on the pool deck with 12-time Olympic medalist Dara Torres at Boston College and with age-group swimmers at Revolution Aquatic Team. He talks dryland training, recovery, and rehabilitating with Paralympic swimming coach and Order of Ikkos medalist Wilma Wong, as well as Paralympic medalists Jamal Hill, Matt Torres, and Zach Shattuck.

He is finding major sponsors for Olympic finalist Neža as well as sharing rehabilitation and recovery modalities with 9-time NCAA championship water polo coach John Tanner at Stanford University and 4-time Olympic medalist and coach Heather Petri at University of California Berkeley, or the trainers at Yale University, Brown University, Holy Cross University, and the Director of Performance for Red Bull.

He helps with introductions for Stéphane Lecat and Philippe Lucas of the French Swimming Association.

He goes on adventures with Mexican swimmer Antonio Argüelles at the SCAR Swim, as well as unprecedented open water swims with Ross Edgley, Ger Kennedy, and Thomas W. Kofler in Mallorca and in the Canadian Yukon. He kayaked for over 50 hours for British adventurer along the Yukon River, counseled Edgley for 4 days in his all-day pool swims. He also counsels marathon swimmers like Ildiko Szekely of Hungary and does podcasts with Rich Roll, two-time Olympic medalist Elizabeth Beisel, and 3-time Olympic medalist Katie Hoff.

At different times, he discuss research projects with Professor Yannis Pitsiladis, PhD of the IOC) Medical and Scientific Commission and Hong Kong Baptist University, Borja Muñiz-Pardos, PhD of the University of Zaragoza, cardiologist Aaron Baggish, MD of the University of Lausanne, and Dr. Dave Swensen in Boston. Between these scientific planning sessions, he is in his last year of earning his own doctorate in the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Some of the different athletes and actors, he advises include Dare Rose and Destin Lasco of UC Berkeley, Olympic gold medalist diver Laura Wilkinson, and actor Chris Pratt of the Marvel Universe.

Coach, advisor, trainer, scientist, kayaker, mentor, navigator, educator, motivator: Chris Morgan is a Renaissance Man of Human Performance.