Meg Sisson French

Biography

Meg Sisson French begins her seventh season as the Mary Frances Wagley, '47 men's and women's swimming and diving head coach/physical education and wellness instructor in 2025-26. She came to MIT from Pomona-Pitzer Colleges and was named to her position on August 9, 2019. The 2024-25 was a historic season for the women's program as the team won every event at the NEWMAC Championships and earned the top spot in the CSCAA Polls. MIT erased a 20-point deficit on the final day at the NCAA Championship to win the program's first NCAA Title. French was named the CSCAA Coach of the Year for the first time in her career and became the first women's head coach to lead a program to a National Championship. At Pomona-Pitzer, Sisson French served as the associate head coach and recruiting coordinator from 2017-2019, as well as the assistant coach from 2015-17. She assisted in coaching five SCIAC Conference Championship teams and had three teams post top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championship. She began her collegiate coaching career at Springfield College as a volunteer assistant coach in the 2012-13 season and as a graduate assistant from 2013-2015. Sisson French earned her Master of Social Work in 2015 and graduated with her Bachelor of Science in applied sociology from Springfield in 2012. She was a four-year member of the women's swimming and diving team that captured the 2009 and 2010 NEWMAC Championships.

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