Maurya Couvares completed her second year as coach of the Wagner women's triathlon team in the Fall of 2019.
In January, 2018, Wagner College athletic director
Walt Hameline announced the hiring of Couvares as head coach of the Wagner College varsity women's triathlon team, which began competition in 2018-19.
In November 2017,
Wagner became the 21st school and fourth in NCAA Division I to add women's triathlon as a varsity sport. The commitment from Wagner as the 21st school pushes triathlon, in its journey to becoming an NCAA Championship sport, past the halfway point of its goal to reach 40 schools by 2024.
A USA Triathlon Level 2 Certified Coach, Couvares has been a triathlete since 2011 where she has competed in Olympic and Half Distance races. She has qualified for the ITU World Championships as part of Team USA as an age-grouper in the past four years in a row, and has also qualified and competed in the Ironman 70.3 World Championships several times. She's also been honored as an All American Triathlete for the past three years.
Since 2015, she has served as a board member of the Brooklyn Triathlon Club, a community-based and volunteer run triathlon club that encompasses 300 members. Couvares has been a member of TriTeam LC since 2016, a team that exists to empower women through triathlon and holds community workshops that focus on women's specific training and nutrition.
Couvares is the founder and Emeritus CEO of
Code Nation, a groundbreaking nonprofit which she established in 2012, that equips students in under-resourced schools with the fundamental coding skills and professional experience that together create access to careers in technology and a pathway towards economic empowerment.
Code Nation serves more than 1,500 students across 60+ schools in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago engaging more than 250 volunteers.
"I'm looking forward to building the new program, adding to Wagner's strong tradition of athletic excellence, and can't wait to get started," said Couvares.
A former Division I athlete herself at Boston College, Couvares was a Big East Academic All-Star team swimmer, specializing in the butterfly and sprint freestyle. In 2006, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from BC, graduating cum laude with a major in Philosophy and a minor in American Studies. While an undergraduate at BC, she spent a year abroad in England at Oxford University, Mansfield College where she studied philosophy and politics as part of a visiting student program.
From 2006-07, Couvares completed coursework in Urban Education, with a specialization in Secondary Social Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education. In 2017, she received a Certificate of Business Excellence from the Columbia University, Graduate School of Business.
