NASHUA - Phil Rowe is coming back to New Hampshire.

The Exeter native, who served as the University of New Hampshire’s men’s basketball coach from 1999-2005, is taking on the newly created position of assistant vice president of student affairs for athletics at Daniel Webster College. He’ll start his new job July 1.

Rowe, 53, spent the last year as an assistant coach at George Washington. The Colonials finished 27-3, won the Atlantic 10 regular-season championship and lost to Duke in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

"It’s a perfect time in my career to move away from the day-to-day work as a coach and spend more time with the growth of an entire college," Rowe said in a statement.

George Washington sports information director Brad Bower said that although he didn’t know all the details, he thought the parting was amicable. Rowe was hired last spring by GW head coach Karl Hobbs, and the two go back to their days as assistants at Boston University in the early 1990s.