2024 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

Where do they practice?

That I don't know.

Anyone heard anything about Long Island?

Other than great bagels and slightly above average pizza, it's an insufferable place to live.

UCSB Director.

ucsbgauchos.com

Vijay Saxena Becomes New Director of Track and Field/Cross Country - University of California, Santa Barbara

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara Athletics has named Vijay Saxena as the new Head Coach of Men's and Women's Cross Country/Track and Field, Director of Athletics

Link:ucsbgauchos.com/news/2024/1/16/general...

As soon as they said he has a USATF Level 1 I was convinced he was a good coach.

It looks like this job will be open soon

chadroneagles.com

Karamitros resigns as Head Cross Country Coach - Chadron State College Athletics

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CHADRON, Neb. -- Luke Karamitros, CSC's Head Cross Country coach, has resigned of his duties to become the next head cross country and track & field coach at Drury

Link:chadroneagles.com/news/2024/1/8/karami...

Dartmouth distance open?

Vijay Saxena to UCSB - director's position.

You might want to look at 5 posts before yours.

Congratulations

Vijay will do well

This Program has had some significant movement recently. The previous Head Track Coach was only there 10 months to help host the outdoor conference-resigned in June. Coach before him left abruptly for SDSU after a 4 year stint. Then they hired the new Head Track Coach-Sept and now the Cross Country Head Coach has left. Plus, the assistant distance coach just had/is having a baby. Looks like they have a Football Coach of some kind as a track assistant? The jobs website says they are looking for another assistant at 39K, which by the looks of how small that town is, might actually be a livable wage for a single, young coach starting out. the previous Head Cross Country Coach salary was listed at 42k(really just a glorified assistant with a little better Title). Wonder if he was mad that he didn't get first dibs at the Head position and bolted? Current head Track coach is probably around 55k from previous salary database searches.

To be fair - when 8 of the top 10 XC teams in the RMAC (Chadron's conference) finish in the top 19 at the National XC Meet (men's division)....that can be a little discouraging, especially if you don't have much funding for scholarships, facilities, etc. It can be tough to make much headway to the eye of someone on the outside looking in.

This guy got DESTROYED while at Army. Lowest point total by sprints/jumps/hurdles at the League Championships in 20+ years. In most events he couldn't even get 1 athlete into the final.

He was only there for one year, but he inherited good enough talent to do so much more. It only takes 13.83 to score in the men's triple jump and you can't get 1 point? 12.29 to make the final in the women's 100m, 25.16 in the women's 200 and you have nobody that can do it?

Went and looked at the Men's XC roster. Was impressed, a very solid group. No super stars but 2-3 who could end up breaking 14:00 for 5k and if coached well that entire group has good potential. A bunch of 1:51 - 1:53 800 guys. And mostly freshman and sophomores. The new Director is walking into a good situation talent-wise. We'll see what he does with it.

UC Santa Barbara is paying very little. It’s a very expensive place to live. A 2 BR rental is around $4000/mo. Purchasing a 1 or 2 bedroom condo starts at $900,000. Head Coach aside, do you realize how hard it is to attract assistant coaches to this area with a small personnel budget? And, like UCLA and Berkley, the state universities in high academic demand have minimum admission GPAs that cannot be budged, even for an amazing recruit. (Private schools like USC and Stanford can make all kinds of exceptions to their GPA standards if they choose.) It’s not an attractive job for an ambitious seasoned coach.

You do realize he has no knowledge of distance and is not the distance coach or XC coach? Another non-distance director supervising a sport they know nothing about. This will go great for the 14min 5k guys. Hopefully the XC coach is allowed autonomy and to actually work with his kids how he sees fit.

Agreed with others on this forum though- UCSB is a pretty awful set up. Not sure how you can be successful there but it's not how they have been doing it over the past decade.