Hannah Mattar enters her second season as an assistant coach after joining the CSU staff in August 2017.

Mattar helped the Vikings to strong showings in the Horizon League Championships in her debut season as the women’s squad especially outdid expectations.

The CSU women took third place with 586 points at the Horizon League Championships, finishing only seven points behind the runner-up. The Vikings improved two spots from the previous season while finishing three positions higher than projected in the preseason poll. The Cleveland State women broke school records in nine of the 18 swimming events at the 2018 League meet.

Leading that record-breaking effort was Molly McNamara, who took home impressive hardware with Mattar’s assistance. McNamara was named the Horizon League Women’s Swimming & Diving Athlete of the Year, the first Viking to win that honor in over a decade. She was also named HL Female Scholar-Athlete of the 2017-18 Winter Season. McNamara broke school records in all three of her individual events at the HL Championships, became just the third woman this century to sweep butterfly titles at a HL meet and also broke a League record.

Mattar also helped the CSU men to a strong runner-up finish with 665.5 points in 2018, as the Viking men surpassed NCAA standards in eight different events at the League Championships. Both the men’s and women’s point totals from the League meet were the highest in five years.

Mattar had a highly accomplished career at Ashland, not only as an athlete but also in her numerous other pursuits away from the pool.

Mattar was a 13-time All-American at Ashland as she qualified for the NCAA Championships in each of her four seasons. She claimed 11 individual All-America honors, including seven of the First Team variety, and two as a member of a relay. Mattar was a three-time First Team All-American in the 200 breaststroke, finishing among the top four nationally on each occasion, and earned the same honor for the 200 IM and 400 IM two times each.

Mattar was named the 2015 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Year after winning conference titles in three individual events at the League Championships. She claimed six conference titles as an individual in her career and still holds two GLIAC Championship records (200 breaststroke, 400 IM).

Mattar was named an Ashland Student-Athlete of the Year in 2015-16. She currently holds four school records—the 200 butterfly, 200 breaststroke, 200 IM and 400 IM. Her record time is more than five seconds better than the second-best performer in program history in three of those four events.

Mattar was an impeccable student and earned a variety of awards for her work in the classroom. A summa cum laude graduate, she was a two-time Academic All-American. Mattar was also recognized as a CSCAA Scholar All-American and named to the GLIAC Academic Excellence Team three times each. Mattar twice earned the GLIAC Commissioner’s Award, becoming just the third student-athlete in Ashland history to claim the award more than once. The GLIAC Commissioner Awards are given to student-athletes that excel both in the classroom and athletically.

Mattar also was a team captain at Ashland and earned the Most Inspirational Team Leader/Captain award at the athletic department’s end-of-year awards banquet.

Mattar is far from the only swimmer in her family, as her brother, Tony, competed collegiately and her sister, Lydia, continues to do so.

A native of Lake Orion, Mich., Mattar earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Ashland in 2016.