Adelphi University Women's Track

Campbell enters his third season as a Panther assistant coach, last season working closely with the throwing portion of the program. Campbell will now begin work with the sprinters. Campbell comes to Adelphi with a coaching resume that spans nearly two decades, and a list of NCAA qualifiers and Olympians under his direction nearly as long. Prior to dawning the Brown and Gold, Campbell spent seven years at Long Island University - C.W. Post, guiding their sprints program. Campbell was an integral part in the rebirth in the program, bringing multiple athletes to the NCAA and IC4A competition. Prior to C.W. Post, Campbell spent eight years at his alma mater, New York Tech and played a major role in helping develop runners who later qualified for the Olympic trials, national meets and the NCAA championships. Campbell currently works for the Long Island University Data Center. He and his wife, Julia, live in Westbury with their three children. Return to Staff

Rees enters her fourth year as head coach of the track and field teams at Adelphi University. The 2013-14 campaign was capped off at the NCAA Championships during both the indoor and outdoor season for Rees and the Panthers. At the indoor championships, senior Angela Mongitore earned All-American status by posting a time of 55.54 in the 400 meter dash for sixth place. Mongitore returned to the NCAA field in the outdoor season, claiming 14th place in the 400 behind a clocking of 55.45. She was joined by senior Nick Filippazzo and Elizabeth Eickelberg (14), each representing the Brown and Gold in the 10,000 meter. Additionally, both the indoor and outdoor womens teams were recognized with Northeast-10 Conference Team Academic Excellence Awards. During the 2012-13 indoor track and field season, Rees' men's and women's teams broke a total of seven school records broken and earned eight All-Region awards. The outdoor season saw the squads have continued success, as the men and women broke a combined eight school records and four Panthers earned All-Region honors. Larissa Melendez and Rosie Vassilatos were crowned conference champions in the steeplechase and the 400H, respectively; Vassilatos also represented the Brown and Gold at the NCAA Championships in the 400H. During the 2011-12 year, her first at the helm of the program, Rees guided both the men's and women's squads to improvements at the conference meet both indoors and outdoors from the prior year. During the indoor season, the women broke three records while the men also accomplished the same feat. At the NE-10 Championship, she had three men earn All-Conference honors including one event winner while the women had one individual and one relay earn All-Conference kudos. Additionally, during indoors, under her direction, Mychael Fabio provisionally qualified for nationals in the 200m dash while earning the automatic mark in the 400 where he went on to place ninth. Meanwhile, Rosie Vassilatos was a provisional qualifier in the 400m as well. During the outdoor season, both squads improved two spots at the conference championships, taking fifth and seventh respectively. The women set six school records while the men had one. Additionally, she had two females earn All-Conference honors while the men had four event winners, five individual All-Conference honors and one relay earn the same kudos. Capping the season was Fabio who earned All-American honors in the 400m dash with a fifth place finish. Rees is a former Adelphi University assistant track and field coach as well as a former standout runner for the Panthers. Katie (DiPietro) Rees spent four years as an athlete at Adelphi and then three and a half years as an assistant coach with the program. A four-year letterwinner in both cross-country and track and field, Rees was also a four-time All-East Coast Conference performer and an All-Northeast selection in 2002. She helped the Panthers qualify for the 2001 and 2002 NCAA Division II Cross-Country National Championship meet, where Adelphi placed 22nd and 21st in the nation. She then moved to the coaching side of the sport as an assistant with the cross-country and track and field programs. Rees helped the Panthers to three straight East Coast Conference women's cross-country titles and two men's in her time at Adelphi and was instrumental in helping the mid-distance and distance runners re-write the Adelphi record books. In June, 2010, she took over the helm of the men's and women's cross-country program. Rees graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi's Honors College in 2005 with a degree in Exercise Physiology and earned a Master's Degree in Exercise Physiology from Adelphi in 2006. She continues to run, having completed eight marathons, including notching her personal best of 3:05.06 at the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC.