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2003 Camp Coaches
Ron Mann
Keith Bacon
Sharon Falor
Juwan Navayokva
Vince O'Boyle
Bo Reed
Kelly Reed
Tsosie Taylor
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 Coach Ron Mann's
persistent dedication to the track and field/ cross country
program at Northern Arizona University has secured his success
and notoriety at the Division I level. Last season he garnered
his 53rd Big Sky
Conference Coach of the Year, ninth NCAA
Mountain Region Coach of the year accolade and guided sophomore
Ida Nilsson to an NCAA runner-up steeple chase finish. His
cross country squads both competed in last falls NCAA Championships,
finishing seventh on the men's side and 10th on the women's
side. Beyond his past laurels Mann believes the best is yet
to come.
Mann's 2002 track and field teams were represented by sophomore Ida Nilsson
at the indoor and outdoor NCAA Championships as well as hammer thrower,
Andrea Hancock and 110 meter hurdler, Vytautus
Kancleris at the outdoor
championship. Nilsson recorded a fifth-place 3000 meter indoor mark (9:10.4)
while returning in the outdoor season to post a runner-up finish in the
3000 meter steeplechase (9:49.3). Both
efforts garnered her All-American
accolades. The combined program collected 13 conference champions. Mann's
success is becoming untouchable not only by NAU standards; Mann has led
athletes to 91 NCAA cross country and track and field appearances, won
53 Big Sky Conference titles and nine Mountain Region cross country titles.
But Mann is renowned nationally as well. He has coached 92 individual All-Americans,
had at least one of
his athletes compete in every Summer Olympiad since
the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, and produced three NCAA national champions
(Angela Chalmers, 1986 cross country; Anna Soderberg, 1996 outdoor discus; Johanna
Nilsson, 2003 indoor track).
Mann's achievements have been recognized; as he has been named Big Sky
Coach of the Year 30 times
(track and field alone) and had "Coach
Mann Day" dedicated to him by the City of Flagstaff in April 1991.
Mann's most recent honors came in 2000 when he was inducted into the Mt.
SAC Relays Track and Field
Hall of Fame alongside track and field gold
medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee. For these team and individual accomplishments,
Mann received the ultimate NAU athletics honor in 1999 when he was inducted
into the Bank One NAU Athletics Hall of Fame. He joined his former college
coach, Leo "Red" Haberlack, after
being inducted with the 1971
and 1988 NAU men's cross country teams (the former as an athlete, the latter
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 Coach
Vince O'Boyle, since arriving at UC Irvine in
1982, has developed one of the top distance programs not
only on the West Coast, but in the nation.
O'Boyle has guided the UCI women's cross country program to four NCAA
Championship meets. His 1990 Anteaters placed fourth in the nation, the
highest finish in the program's history, and three UCI runners earned
All-America distinction that season.
He has coached UCI to 10 of the last 15 Big West Conference titles
in women's cross country and seven league championships in the men's
program.
O'Boyle has been named Big West Conference Coach of the
Year 18 times
in his 16 seasons at UCI, including a first-ever such honor in women's
track and field in 1996
to go with his 17 cross country awards. He has
coached eight All-Americans in men's and women's cross country while
at UCI.
O'Boyle has served as director of the UCI track and field program for
the last 14 years after two years as an assistant. He has coached 23
athletes in the last nine NCAA Track & Field Championships, with
11 of those UCI competitors earning All-America honors.
His athletes have also proved successful in the classroom, as 81 of
his student-athletes in cross country
and track have been named Big West
Conference Scholar-Athletes in the last three years. His 1997-98 women’s
cross country team received UCI’s Faculty Athletic Representative
Award for the school’s
highest team grade-point average.
His success is also recognized on the national and international levels,
as he was selected head coach for
the United States Senior Women's Cross
Country Team for the 1992 World Championships in Boston.
O'Boyle has
served as a U.S. Olympic Festival coach on two occasions, as he was
head coach for the
West women's track team in 1989 and was the West's distance
coach in the 1986 Festival. He also has
been a member of the prestigious
NCAA Track & Field Committee that governs intercollegiate cross
country
and track.
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 Coach Bo Reed is
a native Arizonian, born and raised here in the Valley. He
attended Northern Arizona University to escape the blistering
heat. There he studied the literal geniuses that have magically
transpired through time via prose and verse.
In his spare time, Bo ran on the Lumberjack
Cross Country and Track and Field Teams. Despite great
efforts
to set new standards on the running scene,
the only record he ever broke was a remake of "The
Locomotion" sung by Grand Funk Railroad. He did
however sustain good enough marks in competition to
run at the National Class level for nearly a decade.
While at NAU, Bo was intuitively learning
a new trade. Bo learned a great deal about running,
coaching and life through one of his mentors Ron Mann.
It is the same enthusiasm adopted from his former
coach that Bo brings to Scottsdale Community College.
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Keith D. Bacon graduated from NAU
in 1996 with a degree in Education and is currently in his
fifth year of teaching at Sinagua High School. He began coaching
at Sinagua as an assistant while attending NAU and became
the head coach for both Cross-Country and Track in 1998.
During his stint as head XC coach in the highly competitive Grand Canyon
Region he has had numerous athletes place in the top 10 at the state meet
as well as a two time state champion and state runner-up. Although the
distance events of track have been his main focus Bacon has also taken
on the role as High Jump coach.
Bacon transferred to NAU from Oregon State University and took advantage
of the high altitude of Flagstaff to begin training for the marathon distance.
He has completed seven marathons including the likes of Boston, New York,
and Los Angeles. In addition to marathon training he took a short detour
into the area of triathlons and completed an Ironman.
His high school accomplishments as a member of the cross-country, indoor
and track teams include a seventh place finish in China as a member of
the USA Cross-Country team, and multiple state competitions. |
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Other coaches currently involved with Ron Mann's High Altitude
Cross County Camp include:
Sharon Falor
Cross Country Coach - Flagstaff High School
Juwan Navayokva
Former NCAA All American & Northern Arizona University standout
Kelly Reed
Cross Country Coach - Scottsdale Community College
Tsosie Taylor
Cross Country Coach - Coconino High School
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