Former Alaska Anchorage standout Marie-Sophie Boggasch takes the reins for her fifth season and sixth year overall as head coach of the Seawolf program in 2026.
The Seawolves have produced solid seasons under Boggasch's leadership and continued to set high standards for classroom excellence, earning the top combined team GPA in the nation in 2025 with a record 3.985 mark, and finishing top-2 nationally for three of the past four years.
On the mat, the Seawolves' 2025 squad produced the fifth-best average score in program history at 191.325, along with the third-best floor average at 48.336. The 49.025 floor score against Sacramento State on Feb. 23, 2025 was the second-best figure for a Seawolf team. UAA's beam lineup had a historic year in 2024 as well, notching the third-best average in program history at 47.948.
In her first year on the staff as an assistant 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.
Boggasch was elevated to head coach in July 2020 and, despite the pandemic and having the sport nearly discontinued due to statewide budget cuts, she and her staff rallied to help raise nearly $900,000 to ensure the permanent reinstatement to gymnastics and UAA.
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.
