Harvard University Men's Track

Wales-Dinan coached the women's cross country team to a 6th place finish at the NCAA Northeast Regional. Courtney Smith '18 had a breakout season finishing 16th at the Wisconsin Invite in a Harvard historical best of 20:04 for 6k. She finished 3rd at the Ivy League Championships, the highest finish for a Crimson woman since 1989. Smith then earned All-Region honors with her 5th place finish at the NCAA Northeast Regional, qualifying her individually for the NCAA Championships. The track campaign saw All-America performances from Smith in the indoor 10,000 meters and from Paige Kouba in the 3,000 steeplechase. Both women went on to compete at the USATF Olympic Trials, and helped Harvard climb to a program- and Ivy-best No. 10 national ranking during the season. Smith posted the ninth-fastest 10,000-meter run in NCAA history, while the men's middle distance team saw two school records broken by Myles Marshall '19 and a pair of Heps championships in the 4x800 relay, which is the first sweep in the event in program history. During the 2014-15 campaign Wales-Dinan mentored six athletes who earned 7 USTFCCCA All-Academic honors and coached athletes to 5 school records. Molly Renfer set the school record at 1500m running 4:18.25 and also help the indoor distance medley relay set a school record of 11:18.73. Paige Kouba also had a breakout campaign capturing 3rd place at the Ivy League Championships in the steeplechase and setting a school record of 10:15.81 in the process. Freshman Coutrney Smith also set freshman records in the indoor 5k and outdoor 10k. The latter earning her a 3rd place finish at the Ivy League Championships. In total Harvard women had 7 middle and long distance entries at the NCAA Prelims, while the womens team defended their indoor and outdoor Heps Championships. Prior to Harvard Wales-Dinan was the mens and womens cross country coach at Long Beach State University. While at Long Beach State, Wales-Dinans athletes complied 32 top 10 performances and 7 school records. He coached 10 All-Conference Athletes and 6 NCAA Qualifiers and 2 All-Americans. During the 2014 track and field season Chris Low earned 1st team All-American honors in the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Low finished 7th in the 800m finals and broke the school record in the 800m when he ran 1:47.52 at the NCAA Prelims in Arkansas. Wales-Dinan also guided Chris Enriquez to a birth in the NCAA Finals 10,000m. Both Low and Enriquez were the first middle or long distance men in Long Beach St. history to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Low also won a conference title in the 800m and garnered individual victories at the Stanford Invitational, Drake Relays and a runner-up finish at the Mt. Sac relays. Additionally Enriquez broke the 36 year old 5000m record when he ran 14:07.30 and ran 29:12.46. Wales-Dinan also coached Rosa Del Toro and Gabe Hilbert during their professional careers.. Del Toro a 2013 Long Beach graduate and 9 time school record holder was a Brooks sponsored athlete. Hilbert ran 1:47.25 for 800m and made the semi-finals at the 2014 US Championships in the 800m. At the 2014 USATF National Championships Enriquez was the highest placing collegiate in the 10,000m. He and Low earned spots on the NACAC U-23 National Team representing the United States. There Enriquez took home the silver medal and Low took a bronze becoming the first in 49er history to earn an international medal for the US. In the fall of 2013 Wales-Dinan coached junior Chris Enriquez to an individual birth to the NCAA Cross Country Championships. Enriquez was the first 49er to qualify for the even in the modern era of NCAA Cross Country (since 1980). Enriquez qualified after finishing 10th at the NCAA West Regional meet in a time of 29:54.36. This was the highest finish by a 49er in school history. During his first year at The Beach, Wales-Dinan saw his athletes set 3 school records and garner 3 NCAA Regional qualifying performances. Wales-Dinan mentored Gabe Hilbert to the conference title in the 800m and freshman Chris Enriquez to the fastest 5000m performance in the last 30 years when he ran 14:12.89 at the Mt. Sac Invitational. His distance squads earned 4 All-Conference nods and scored the most conference points for a 49es squad in the last 6 years. During the indoor season Wales-Dinan coached Rosa Del Toro to school records of 9:22 and 16:23 in the 3000m and 5000m respectively. Del Toro qualified to compete in the USATF Indoor National Championships. In the fall the womens cross country team earned USTFCCCA All-Academic recognition. In his time at Long Beach, Duke and Williams College, Wales-Dinan has coach over 45 USTFCCCA All-Academic Individuals including the 2010 NCAA XC and 2011 NCAA TF Scholar Athlete of the Year. Wales-Dinan came to LBSU from Duke University, where he served as an assistant cross country/track & field coach from 2011-12. During his time working with the Blue Devils, Wales-Dinan tutored one NCAA All-American, three NCAA finalists, eight NCAA qualifiers, 10 all-region performers, one conference champion and eight All-ACC runners. Wales-Dinan's student-athletes also excelled in the classroom as he saw 10 individuals earn USTFCCCA All-Academic honors. Prior to his stint at Duke, Wales-Dinan was an assistant coach for the cross country teams and the distance coach for the women's track & field program at Williams College from 2009-11. At Williams, he coached 10 All-Americans and one NCAA Division III national champion in Jennifer Gossels, who won titles in both the 5000m and 10000m in 2011. That same year, Wales-Dinan became the first coach in NCAA Division III history to oversee four national qualifiers in the women's 10000m. Wales-Dinan assisted in guiding the Williams College men's and women's cross country teams to consecutive NCAA Division III championship appearances, including a runner-up finish for the men's squad in the fall of 2009. The men also won the conference and regional title in 2009. On the women's side, Wales-Dinan coached Gossels to NCAA Regional Athlete of the Year accolades and a second-place performance at the national championships, the second-highest finish ever by a Williams female runner. As a student-athlete, Wales-Dinan was a three-time All-New England Division III athlete at Bates College. Wales-Dinan graduated from Bates College with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2005. After graduating, Wales-Dinan served as the head coach for the cross country and track & field teams at Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine, from 2005-08. IN DIVISION I ATHLETICS

Mangiacotti, registering the second-fastest Harvard times ever in the 60m and 200m dashes. Harris went on to qualify for the NCAA East Prelim in the 100m and 400m hurdles. Mangiacotti helped with the success of the 2013-14 squad, as the men scored the most points at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships since 1983. In his first season with the Crimson, Mangiacotti saw the mens sprinters/hurdles record five indoor marks and three outdoor marks that rank within the schools all-time top 10. He also mentored Jarvis Harris 15, who broke the Harvard records in the 60 meter hurdles and the 110 meter hurdles in the same season. Mangiacotti also helped two student-athletes garner All-Ivy League honors in 2012-13. Mangiacotti came to Harvard after a two-year tenure at Brown. During his time in Providence, R.I., he made a big impact on the Bears sprinters, coaching five Ivy League champions that combined for nine league titles. He also coached 15 athletes that earned All-Ivy League credentials and saw his group break four school records.  His time at Brown came on the heels of a highly successful stint at Wheaton College. In six years working with the Lyons, Mangiacottis athletes won eight NCAA national championships and earned 53 All-America accolades. His athletes also set 31 school record performances in sprints, hurdles and relay events, and he was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCA) Division III national and regional womens assistant coach of the year back in 2008. Prior to coaching at Wheaton, Mangiacotti worked at the University of Houston for three years as the assistant cross country and track and field coach under the tutelage of former 100-meter dash world record holder and Cougar head coach Leroy Burrell. He was directly responsible for setting the daily workout schedule, and he also assisted with recruiting, managing meets, helping the team budget and arranging travel plans. He also earned a masters degree in Sport Administration at Houston. Mangiacotti got his start in coaching at Bridgewater State College. He is a USA Track & Field Level I and II certified coach in sprints, hurdles, relays, jumps and combined events. As a member of the Bears coaching staff, he worked with the sprinters, hurdlers, middle distance and jumps groups. Mangiacotti graduated from Bridgewater State in 1998 with a dual bachelors degree in elementary and physical education. He was also a standout student-athlete on the cross country and indoor and outdoor track & field teams, earning All-New England honors in track & field his senior year. IN DIVISION I ATHLETICS

Ridgway to our coaching staff, said Saretsky. He comes to us with a wealth of coaching experience and will be an outstanding addition to our program. We are excited to welcome him to our Crimson family." "It is an honor to be hired by Coach Saretsky and Harvard University, said Ridgway. My wife and I are thankful for this opportunity. We look forward to rolling up our sleeves and doing our part to help maintain the championship program Coach Saretsky and his staff have established."   Ridgway, embarking on his 12th year as a collegiate coach in 2015-16, joins the Crimson via Central Michigan where he has been the throws coach since August of 2009. Along the way, Ridgway has coached six All-Americans, 10 conference champions, 12 national qualifiers, 15 school records (10 at CMU), 41 NCAA Regional/Preliminary qualifiers, four conference Performers of the Meet and one USA World Junior and IAAF World Championship participant. His administrative duties at CMU included organizing team travel, maintaining the recruiting budget, assisting with meet management and serving as the facilities liaison. Ridgway has been a collegiate coach since 2004 when he joined the staff at Oklahoma Baptist. Under his guidance, OBU won the 2005 Womens National Championship. Ridgway also coached Jerimiah Campo to a pair of All-America honors in shot and discus. A pair of two-year stints at Louisiana-Monroe and Central Florida followed his time with OBU. Ridgway proved to be an exceptional recruiter for the Warhawks and Knights, signing top high school and junior college student-athletes. At UCF, Ridgway served as the lead of team recruiting, while also organizing team travel. A student-athlete himself, Ridgway began his collegiate career at Oklahoma, earning two varsity letters and a spot on the Academic All-Big XII team in 1999. He finished his athletic career at North Carolina, earning two more varsity letters, while also being recognized as All-ACC during the 2000 outdoor and 2001 indoor seasons. IN DIVISION I ATHLETICS

Abbott helped mentor Marlena Sabatino to both the indoor and outdoor program records in the pole vault. The Crimson women also saw success in the decathlon, where Madison Hansen became the school-record holder with her Ivy title at outdoor Heps. The Crimson had another banner year in 2014-15, as the women won the indoor and outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. At the indoor meet, Hannah Mayer collected second team All-Ivy League honors in the javelin. Abbott also coached junior Mark Hill, who posted the third-best decathlon score in school history at outdoor Heps. Abbott helped with the success of the 2013-14 squad, as the team combined to send a record number of athletes to both the NCAA Championships (seven) and the NCAA East Regional (28). The women won both the indoor and outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships for the second time in program history.  Abbott played a key role in the successful 2012-13 season for both the mens and womens teams. The pole vaulting corps shined at the 2013 Indoor Heptagonal Championships with Sydnie Leroy 13 claiming second-team All-Ivy status, helping the womens team claim its first league championship since 2000. Nico Weiler 13 earned Most Outstanding Field Performer of the Meet honors in a championship performance at the indoor event. He went on to capture the IC4A indoor pole vault title as well as the 2013 Outdoor Heptagonal Championships pole vault crown. In his first year with Harvard, Abbott helped the men's outdoor squad record its best finish in a decade at the Heptagonal Championships, taking third in the competition. He also worked with pole vaulters Nico Weiler '13 and Allie Pace '14, the former breaking the indoor and outdoor school records and earning first team All-America honors and the latter setting the women's indoor and outdoor school marks. Abbott joined the Harvard track and field/cross country staff during the 2011-12 season and worked primarily with the vertical jumps. Abbott joined the Crimson staff after an 11-year stint at nearby Northeastern, working under head coach Sherman Hart. While with the Huskies, Abbott helped the pole vaulters and javelin throwers rise to regional and national prominence. In addition to his work at NU, Abbott has been a featured clinician for six years with the On the Road Track & Field World Tour. He has also been the Director of Pole Vaulting at the Winged Foot Track & Field Camp for nine years, the Director of Javelin Training at the Mass. Track & Field Academy for 11 years and has been a pole vault clinician at the M-F Athletic Jumps Camp for 10 years. Prior to joining the Huskies, Abbott coached at his high school alma mater, Milford High. As an athlete, he was a captain of the track & field team at the University of Maine, where he set the pole vault record and was All-IC4A twice in the javelin. Abbott resides in Charlestown. IN DIVISION I ATHLETICS

Saretskys position, The William W. Bill McCurdy Director of Track and Field/Cross Country, became the 17th endowed coaching position at Harvard in the spring of 2013. Saretsky is just the 10th person to serve as head coach of the track and field program since Harvard began formal competition in 1874. During Saretskys tenure with the Crimson, Harvard has had 29 All-America performances, including eight in the 2015-16 season alone. He has also mentored 40 NCAA qualifiers, 119 NCAA regional qualifiers, coached to nine individual ECAC/IC4A titles with 89 Heptagonal champions, and countless school records have fallen with more than 250 marks added to the programs top-10 list. Both the mens and womens cross country and track and field teams have been honored by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for their success in the classroom each year since Saretsky's arrival. The Crimson earned All-Academic honors for having a team GPA of 3.0 or better. The 2015-16 team was one of the most successful in program history, earning eight All-America honors with a pair of Ivy League Heptagonal championships on the women's side. The women's team rose to No. 10 in the national polls, breaking both a program and Ivy League record for the highest-ranked team. Saretsky was named the Northeast Region Coach of the Year for the third-straight season during the outdoor campaign, as a slew of program records changed hands. The Crimson had five student-athletes qualify for the USATF Olympic Trials, setting a new program standard, while Nikki Okwelogu '17 was named to the Olympic track and field team for Nigeria. Okwelogu, Gabby Thomas, Autumne Franklin, Jade Miller, Paige Kouba and Courtney Smith earned All-America nods under Saretsky's watch. The 2014-15 season proved to be another banner season for the women's indoor and outdoor squads, as the Crimson swept both Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. Saretsky was named Northeast Region Coach of the Year for both seasons. He also garnered Co-Ivy League Coach of the Year for the indoor season and won the honor outright during the outdoor campaign. On a national level, Nikki Okwelogu finished as an All-America in the indoor shot put, while Jade Miller and Autumne Franklin earned All-America in the 400 meter hurdles at the outdoor NCAA Championships. In total, the Crimson qualified 16 student-athletes for the NCAA East Prelim Meet. Saretsky led the Crimson to an unprecedented year in 2013-14, as he was named the USTFCCCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year for the outdoor season. The men and women combined to send a record number of athletes to both the NCAA Championships (seven) and the NCAA East Regional (28). The women won both the indoor and outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships for the second time in program history. The Harvard women also set nine program records, while the men totaled the most points at Heps since 1983.   The successes were plentiful for Saretskys teams in 2012-13, beginning with the cross country season. The womens squad earned its first trip to the NCAA Championships since 1983, thanks to a fourth-place finish at NCAA regionals. The men also saw a pair of runners qualify for the NCAA individual championships. The indoor season saw the women capture their first Ivy League championship since 2000, earning Saretsky USTFCCCA Northeast Region Womens Coach of the Year accolades. The womens team also yielded a trio of NCAA qualifiers, all of whom went on to earn All-America honors. Saretsky also witnessed the mens indoor team take third at the league championship meet, its best finish since the 1985 Championships. Saretsky mentored a record number of NCAA regional qualifiers in the outdoor season as 18 student-athletes represented Harvard at the NCAA East Preliminary meet. Four more student-athletes earned All-America honors, qualifying for the NCAA Championships in four different events. In all, Saretskys teams yielded seven All-America performances, 17 Heptagonal champions and 11 school records during the 2012-13 season. Saretsky witnessed a banner year in 2011-12 as the Crimson added 103 new marks to the indoor and outdoor track and field all-time top-10 lists, along with eight school records between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Pole vaulter Nico Weiler '13 broke both the indoor and outdoor school records, captured the IC4A title and went on to earn first team All-America accolades for the second time in his career. The men's outdoor track and field team also recorded its best finish in a decade at the Heptagonal Championships, taking third at the competition. Allie Pace '14 followed in Weiler's footsteps, setting both the indoor and outdoor program marks in the pole vault. The 2010-11 season saw the Crimson attain four new program records in both indoor and outdoor track and field competitions. Harvard had 12 student-athletes earn All-Ivy League honors, including four that captured Ivy individual titles (Nico Weiler 13/Pole Vault, Dustin Brode 14/Shot Put, Claire Richardson 11/3,000, Hannah Mayer 14/javelin). The mens team recorded its best finish at Outdoor Heps since 2002, placing fourth in the competition, while the women posted the highest score in team history at the ECAC Indoor Championships. The Crimson also sent the largest contingent of athletes to NCAA Regionals in the history of the program, with 11 competitors qualifying. Brian Hill 11 went onto qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800 and Dan Chenoweth 11 qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships for the third time in his career. Saretsky helped three runners qualify for the 2009 NCAA Cross Country Championships, as Chenoweth, Kaylin Kuzmuk '12 and Claire Richardson '11 represented the Crimson. Richardson went onto qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 5,000 meter run. Both the Harvard men's and women's teams finished in the top half of the league standings at Indoor Heps for the first time since 2002. In 2008-09, the Harvard women had their best finish at the Indoor Heptagonal Championships since 2002, finishing third with 79.5 points. At the ECAC/IC4A Indoor Championships, both the mens and womens teams were the top Ivy League finishers. Two Harvard athletes earned All-America honors in Becky Christensen 09 and Nico Weiler 13, as Weiler won the IC4As and the East Regional en route to his sixth-place finish in the pole vault, earning him USTFCCCA Northeast Field Athlete of the Year accolades. Thirty-five top-10 times were added to the record books during the 2007-08 track and field season. Christensen won the indoor and outdoor high jump title at Heps, won the ECAC outdoor championships, earned All-America honors and cleared a personal best of 1.84 meters in the final at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Favia Merritt 09 helped set two school records at Outdoor Heps, leading the womens team to its best finish at the meet since 2003, placing fourth. Saretsky came to Harvard following his success as the associate head coach of the track and cross country programs at Iona College, where we worked directly under head coach Mike Bryne, who was a four-time Northeast Coach of the Year. During Saretskys time at Iona, the Gaels enjoyed unprecedented success. He helped Iona's men's cross country team to four-consecutive top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships, including a pair of fourth-place finishes, and three NCAA regional titles in four years. Iona's women's cross country program won its first two Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference titles and registered its best finish in school history at the NCAA regional meet in 2005. Saretsky assisted in coaching the mens cross country team to their 15th-consecutive MAAC Championship and the womens cross country team to its first two MAAC Championships as well as 21 school records on the track. He coached 18 individuals to the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships, where 14 earned All-America honors in distance events. Saretsky also is credited with promoting diversity by continuing to expand the international scope of Iona's recruiting efforts and bringing the women's program to the cusp of national prominence. His recruiting techniques brought in the most Dean Scholar candidates in Iona school history. Before joining the staff at Iona, Saretsky spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Columbia University, where he worked directly with the Lions' distance and middle distance runners and enhanced the program's recruiting efforts. At both Columbia and Iona, Saretsky implemented a new stretching routine and provided massage therapy which drastically reduced the teams injuries. Saretsky was a standout student-athlete in his own right as an undergraduate at Columbia. He was an Ivy League Heptagonal champion in the 3,200 relay, a member of Columbia's school-record relay squad in that event, and was a two-time All-Ivy League performer. Saretsky graduated from Columbia in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. He added a master's degree in applied physiology from Columbia's Teachers College in 2001 and a master's in business administration from Iona's Hagan School of Business in 2006. IN DIVISION I ATHLETICS