Former Alaska Anchorage standout Marie-Sophie Boggasch takes the reins for her fourth season and fifth year overall as head coach of the Seawolf program in 2025.
In her first year on the staff in 2019, UAA produced the top season in program history, setting 17 school records, including bars, beam, floor and overall average and NQS marks. In a shortened 2020 campaign, she went on to help the Seawolves again improve on the school records for bars average and NQS. Boggasch also served as the team's primary beam coach as an assistant, aiding in the development of MPSF champion Sophia Hyderally and helping improve scores for multiple other gymnasts on that apparatus.
Despite the pandemic and having the sport nearly discontinued due to statewide budget cuts, Boggasch and her staff rallied to help raise nearly $900,000 to ensure the permanent reinstatement to gymnastics and UAA.
Since then, the Seawolves have produced a trio of solid seasons under Boggasch's leadership and continued to set high standards for classroom excellence.
A four-year letterwinner (2013-16), the native of Schwarzenbach am Wald, Germany, competed on vault, bars and floor exercise for UAA, helping the Seawolves break school records for team season average and RQS as both a junior and senior. A three-time Mountain Pacific Sports Federation All-Academic Team honoree, she tied for runner-up on uneven bars at the 2015 MPSF Championships.
Boggasch graduated from UAA with a 4.00 grade-point average in 2016, earning her bachelor’s degree in aviation technology. Now a professional pilot, she flies seasonally for Regal Air. Boggasch also earned a masters of science degree in interdisciplinary studies -- with concentration on management, adult education and aviation -- from UAA in 2020.
Â
