2005-06 Track & Field Media Guide - Kutztown University

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Coaching Staff Head Coach Brian Mondschein Brian Mondschein enters his 14th year as head coach of the men’s and women’s track & field program at Kutztown University. Mondschein has built the Kutztown track & field program into one of the elite in NCAA Division II. His teams have won 16 conference championships, while he has trained 77 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) and numerous Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) champions, 37 All-Americans, three Academic All-Americans, 15 All-Academic selections by the NCAA Divsion II Track and Field Coaches Association, two PSAC Scholar-Athletes of the Year, two PSAC Rookies of the Year and a national champion. Mondschein’s men’s teams have won five PSAC Outdoor Championships (1996, 1998, 2000-2002) and took five-straight ECAC Indoor titles (1997-2001). The Golden Bear women’s team has won three PSAC Outdoor titles (1997, 2000, 2005) and two PSAC Indoor crowns (2004, 2005). Additionally, the team won the 2001 ECAC Indoor Championship. Mondschein has been named the PSAC Coach of the Year 10 times, after each of his team’s PSAC titles. Most recently, he was named PSAC Indoor and Outdoor Women’s Coach of the Year after his teams swept the 2005 conference titles. Mondschein’s first title was the school’s first title of any kind since 1988. In March of 1995, his men’s squad won the ECAC indoor championships. Kutztown’s first PSAC championship since 1983 came the next year when the men won the outdoor title. In 1997, the men began their unprecedented run of five-straight ECAC titles, while the women won their first-ever PSAC crown. Tara Crozier went on to become KU’s first women’s track and field national champion, winning the hammer. The next year, Mondschein’s men won the ECAC and PSAC championships, completing Kutztown’s first-ever sweep of the events in the same year. Mondschein came to Kutztown from the University of Virginia, where he was an assistant beginning in 1987. Prior to Virginia, he spent four years as an assistant coach at Rice and was previously track coach at Orange Coast College. He competed nationally and internationally in track & field from 1973-83. In 1977, Mondschein was an All-America decathlete for the University of Washington. He was an Academic All-American. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English and broadcast journalism from Washington in 1977. Assistant Coach Ray Hoffman Ray Hoffman enters his eighth season as assistant track and field coach and head cross country coach at Kutztown. In cross country, Hoffman was named the 2000 PSAC Women’s Coach of the Year. He was also named KU’s Dr. Dorothy Moyer/Nike Women’s Athletics Coach of the Year in 2000-01 and 2001-02. On the track, Hoffman’s distance runners have set records in 14 events during the indoor and outdoor track & field seasons. He has coached 16 PSAC Champions, 57 All-PSAC performers and six ECAC Champions. Hoffman guided nine athletes to ECAC titles. Hoffman was named the 2004-05 PSAC Indoor Co-Coach of the Year after helping the women’s team to the conference championship. On the national level, Hoffman has had 22 NCAA provisional qualifiers, highlighted by Eunice Chege’s 11th-place finish in the 3,000-meter run at the 1999 NCAA Championships. Hoffman previously coached at Clemson, where he had two junior national qualifiers, while his 4x800 and 4x1500 relays set school records. Prior to Clemson, Hoffman was assistant women’s cross country and track & field coach at East Stroudsburg. He was named 1995 ECAC Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year. During his tenure, he coached a four-time All-American and an eight-time national qualifier. Hoffman’s runners captured 18 ECAC and three PSAC titles in track & field. He also coached the top NCAA Division II American miler in 1997. A 1994 graduate of East Stroudsburg, Hoffman served as captain of the Warriors’ cross country team as a senior. He was a three-time All-ECAC performer in the 3000 and DMR. In addition, he was an All-PSAC performer in the steeplechase. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and earned his teacher certification in health and physical education from East Stroudsburg in 1997. 2
Season Outlook Men’s Track & Field Hopes to Build on Past Success The Kutztown University men’s track & field team will enter the 2005-06 season looking to build upon its past successes. The team, which has won six Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) titles, placed second at last year’s PSAC Outdoor Championship, its first top-two finish since winning the 2002 title. The Golden Bears also placed fourth at the indoor championship. The Golden Bears return a host of PSAC Champions and All-PSAC performers in hopes of challenging for top-three spots at the conference championship meets again in 2006. Leading the way will be returning individual conference champions Steve Tyson, Mike Provenzano, Tony Hegedus and Dan Wilson. Tyson was a double champion last year, winning both the indoor and outdoor shot put crowns. Tyson was an NCAA provisional qualifier, with a season-best throw of 52-8. Tyson’s performance earned him the KU Male Rookie of the Year award. Provenzano won the pole vault title at the PSAC outdoor championships, with a seasonbest vault of 15-8. KU Women Look to Defend PSAC Titles in 2006 Kutztown University’s women’s track & field team will enter the 2005-06 season looking to defend its unprecedented Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) indoor and outdoor championships. KU won its second-straight indoor championship, while the team won its first outdoor title since 2000. In order to remain at the top, KU will have to replace nine athletes who scored points at the championship meets last year. KU does, however, have several PSAC Champions and All-PSAC performers back in the fold. Leading the way are returning champions Alison Maurer, Laura Kline and Renee Marchand. Maurer won the 20-lb. weight throw at the indoor title with a meet record throw of 55- 4. She went on to compete at the NCAA Championships in the event. Outdoors, Maurer earned All-America honors in the hammer, placing seventh at the NCAA Championships. Kline and Marchand were double winners at the outdoor conference meet. Kline won the 400-meter hurdles, while Marchand won the 3 Hegedus was second in the 400-meter dash at the indoor championship. He ran a leg of the title-winning 4x400 relay. Hegedus also earned All-PSAC honors outdoors in the 400 hurdles and 4x400 relay. Wilson rounds out the returning champions. He won the javelin in 2005 with an NCAA provisional qualifying distance of 209-1. In addition to Hegedus, Billy Boorse and Steve Hixson also return from the PSAC Champion indoor 4x400 relay. Hixson was a member of the 4x400 relay outdoors which earned allconference honors as well. Matt Carroll will look to return to the medal stand after running legs of both PSAC champion 4x400 relay teams in 2003. Justin Reichardt finished his rookie season strong, earning All-PSAC honors in the decathlon. Steve Winters has also scored in the decathlon in his career. Vonkurt Redley was fourth in the 110 hurdles. Pat Bone, Dave Tidey and Dan Wilde will lead the distance corps in one of the premier distance conferences in the country. heptathlon. The duo ran the final two legs of the victorious 4x400 relay team. Jaci Pfeiffer and Talia McKinney return in the hurdles and relays. Pfeiffer was a three-time point scorer last year, including an All-PSAC performance in the indoor 4x400 relay. She placed in both the 100 and 400 hurdles outdoors. McKinney scored in the outdoor 400 hurdles, and helped the indoor distance medley relay to the medal stand. Molly Lare, Stephanie Williams, Chelsea Thomas and Desiree Bower are returning point scorers in the distance events. Lare placed in the 3,000 and 5,000 outdoors, while Williams was an All-PSAC performer in the 10K. Thomas is the lone returner from the PSAC Champion indoor 4x800 relay, while Bower finished third in the steeplechase. Christine Procopio and Amy Schaeffer head the returning jumpers. Procopio scored indoors in the triple jump. She also scored in the 20-lb. weight throw. Michelle Hughes also returns in the throws. Laura Deller will look to contribute in the sprints and jumps.
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