Eastern Connecticut State University Women's Track

Manizza coached men's and women's cross country and men's and women's track and field at the University of Hartford, a Division I institution which competes in the America East conference. Manizza, a 30-year resident of the eastern Connecticut area, became the12th permanent cross country coach since the advent of the program in 1971 and 13th head track and field coach since 1975. All but three of those former coaches served in parttime capacities. "Having coached at Eastern previously, I am very aware of the outstanding potential of the program," offered Manizza. "I learned a tremendous amount in my 13 years at Hartford, which would I will put to good use in the continued development of the track and field and cross country programs at Eastern. Eastern," said Manizza, "is a wonderful university and I am very pleased to be a fulltime member of the athletic staff." Manizza, who served as an assistant track and cross country coach at Eastern for two years before being appointed head coach, coached 32 Division III All-New England athletes in five outdoor seasons as head coach at Eastern, one of whom was a New England javelin champion and five of whom placed second in the regional meet. As she did at Eastern, Manizza instituted the indoor track and field program and early in her tenure at Hartford produced the program's first New England champion. Manizza resides in Bolton with husband Ken and has one son, Greg, a 2011 graduate of the University of Hartford.

Wilkie has led the Bell Ringers to 34 conference championships and to 26 individual and five relay teams to state titles. His 2008 girls' cross country team captured the Class "S" championship. In addition to his coaching duties at East Hampton, Wilkie has been active as program coordinator  for the Connecticut Chargers Disabled Sports Team, games director at the National Sports Festival for the Disabled and sports and recreation director for United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Hartford. Since the mid-1980s, Wilkie has been active on the national level with the Paralympics, world powerlifting and world cycling championships. In 1989, he served as head cycling coach at the Robin Hood Games in Nottingham, England and in 1990 at the cycling World Championships at Assen, Holland and as the head cycling coach at the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona. Inducted into the New England Wheelchair Sports Association Hall of Fame in 2003, Wilkie has served on the board of directors for the United States Sports and Fitness Center in Boston and the U.S. Cerebral Palsy Athletic Association and as chair of the New England Cerebral Palsy Coaches' Association.