University of Vermont Women's Cross Country

Belfield has led the women's cross country team to a third place finish at three of the last four America East Championships. At the 2014 championship meet, three individual runners earned All-America East honors for the third time since 2009. His teams have also earned a multitude of awards away from the course. In 2016, the men's cross country team was honored with a NCAA Public Recognition Award for the sixth straight year, while the mens track & field squad garnered the laurels for the third consecutive season. Vermont has seen athletes earn All-Conference honors at the championship meet every year since 2009, when the Catamounts hosted the event. That year, Doug Maisey and Aly Millett both posted top-5 individual performances for UVM. Kirsten Weberg and Yolanda Ngarambe also earned top-5 finishes at the 2012 and 2013 meets. During the 2014-15 track & field season, Martin Kallur was named an America East Scholar Athlete for both the winter and spring season. Kallur won the Coaches Award at the America East Indoor Track & Field Championships after collecting the most points of any male athlete. The men's team placed fourth overallits highest-ever team finish at the event. In 2014, Vermont hosted the America East Outdoor Track & Field Championships for the first time at the new Frank H. Livak Track & Field Facility. The women's team placed second overall to mark its highest finish since winning the conference title in 2001, while the men placed fifth for their best finish since 1995. Brittany St. Clair was named the America East Women's Most Outstanding Field Performer to sweep the honor in 2014, becoming the first Vermont athlete to accomplish the feat in a decade. UVM also received the America East Women's Coaching Staff of the Year award, closing the event with a total of eight titles and 16 all-conference performances. The 2014 outdoor season also saw Nika Ouellette match the highest NCAA National Championship finish in program history after taking 13th in the women's javelin. Ouellette became the first female in school history to reach the 50-meter mark in the javelin and finished her career as a three-time NCAA All-American. She won four straight America East women's javelin titles, becoming the first athlete to accomplish the feat in conference history. In 2012, a school-record three female student-athletes qualified for the NCAA National Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. Morgan Powers finished 13th overall in the 10,000-meter run and was a Second Team All-American with Nika Ouellette, who took 14th in the javelin. Kirsten Weberg placed 17th in the 3000-meter steeplechase to earn All-America Honorable Mention honors. Powers and Weberg both met the U.S. Olympics Trials B standard with their NCAA performances. Belfield came to UVM from Ithaca College, where he was a five-time New York State Collegiate Track Conference (NYSCTC) Coach of the Year and led the Bombers to three straight conference outdoor track & field titles. During his three-year head coaching tenure at Ithaca, Belfield's student-athletes broke 14 school records and recorded 11 All-America performances. Prior to arriving at Ithaca, Belfield was head coach of the men's and women's cross country and track & field teams at the University of the Redlands in Redlands, California. Belfield coached a national champion hammer-thrower and a two-time national champion high jumper. Belfield served as an assistant coach at Redlands for three years prior to being named head coach in July of 1996. He has also worked on the coaching staffs at Colgate University and Catholic University. A graduate of Catholic, Belfield was a six-time all-conference high jumper during his undergraduate career. He was the 1989 Mason-Dixon Conference champion in the high jump and still holds the school record in the event. In addition to track & field, Belfield also played football at Catholic after serving as quarterback of his high school football team. He received a bachelor's degree in financial management from Catholic in 1990 and earned his master's degree in education with an emphasis in counseling from Redlands in 1994. He is USATF Level 2 Sport Science Coaching certified with Jumping Event Specialization. Belfield lives in Jericho, Vermont with his wife Bonnie, who was an assistant coach for the Catamounts from 1993-97 and 2003-08. They have two daughters, Arianna and Brooklyn.

Gingras earned America East All-Conference honors after placing fifth in the steeplechase at the 1998 America East Outdoor Track & Field Championships. His fifth place finish also qualified him for the New England Championships later that year. As a senior, he earned all-conference honors for the second straight year with a third place finish in the steeplechase and finished 11th out of 24 qualifiers at the New England Championships. Gingras graduated from Vermont in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in economics and geography. He was the recipient of the John H. Converse Award given to the outstanding senior in economics and was a member of the Gamma Theta Upsilon International Honor Society for geography. Gingras was a six-time member of the Dean's List at UVM and six-time member of the America East Academic Honor Roll.