Louisville Track & Field 2012 Big East Indoor Track & Filed Championships
BIRTHDAY: March 2 COACHING RESPONSIBILITY: Head Coach EDUCATION: Bachelor's Degree (Northern Arizona, '72); Master's Degrees (Arizona State, '76; Northern Arizona, '79) YEAR AT LOUISVILLE: Ninth HOMETOWN: Flagstaff, Ariz. FAMILY: Wife - Charlene, Sons - Steve, Ryun, Brandon
ATHLETIC CAREER
Member of the Northern Arizona cross country and track and field teams
Part of the 1971 Big Sky champion cross country team
COACHING CAREER Louisville
2004-Present: Louisville (head coach)
1980-2004: Northern Arizona (head coach)
1978-80: Glendale Community College (head coach)
1977-78: Mesa (Ariz.) Community College (assistant coach)
1972-76: Sunnyslope High (assistant coach)
COACHING HIGHLIGHTS
LOUISVILLE
Oversaw the development of the program's first four national champions (Matt Hughes, twice; D'Ana McCarty twice; Tone Belt; and Andre Black)
Directed the program to three top-10 national finishes: seventh at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championships, ninth at the 2007 NCAA Cross Country Championships and 10th at the 2007 NCAA Indoor Championships
Guided the Cardinals to a total of eight BIG EAST team titles in the last six years, including five-straight BIG EAST women's outdoor titles
The Cardinals' women's program became the first in BIG EAST Conference history to achieve five-consecutive outdoor titles
Louisville has recorded seven runner-up finishes at the BIG EAST Championships
Coached his athletes to 45 USTFCCCA All-America accolades
Individually, the Cardinals have collected 88 individual conference titles
Has been awarded the BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year award six times
Serves as three-time marathon winner Wesley Korir's personal coach; Korir has won two L.A. Marathon titles and the 2012 Boston Marathon title under Mann's tutelage
Captured the first women's team indoor (2011) and outdoor titles (2008)
Was selected to serve as the U.S. Olympic men's middle distance coach in 2008
In 2007, was one of only two schools to earn top 10 team finishes at the NCAA indoor (10th), outdoor (seventh), and cross country (ninth) national championships
Following the 2007 success, Mann was named the USTFCCCA Mideast Region Men's Head Coach of the Year; he also was named the USTFCCCA Southeast's Men's Coach of the Year that season
Captured first bids in program history to the NCAA Cross Country Championships (2006-07, 2009-10)
The women's track and field team has been recognized for eight-straight years by the USTFCCCA as an all-academic squad; men's team has achieved that status three of the last four years
Served as an assistant coach in the jumping events for the U.S. men's team at the 2005 IAAF World Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Helsinki, Finland
NORTHERN ARIZONA
Captured 58 Big Sky Conference championships in cross country and track and field
Led the Lumberjacks to 16 top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships
Earned 57 league coach of the year awards
Was a 12-time Big Sky Coach of the Year (1987-92, 1996, 1998-99, 2001-03)
Eight of his athletes combined for 11 Olympic appearances
Won 12 NCAA regional championships in cross country
Produced 107 All-Americans, five Olympians, and four individual national champions
In 2004, men's and women's outdoor teams combined for 43 Big Sky all-conference performances, including 14 individual titles
In 2002, 34 student-athletes had a 3.25 GPA or higher and the team combined for a 3.04 GPA
Tabbed the head coach for the U.S. Junior National Team at the 1993 Pan-Am Games
In the 1990's, 60 cross country student-athletes were named Academic all-Big Sky
Three-time member of NAU Athletics Hall of Fame
MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Led team to a pair of fifth-place finishes in ACCAC and Region I (1977-78)
NCAA CHAMPIONS Louisville
Outdoor
3,000 Meter Steeplechase: Matt Hughes (2010, 2011)
Indoor
Weight Throw: D'Ana McCarty (2009, 2010)
Triple Jump: Andre Black (2007)
Long Jump: Tone Belt (2007) Northern Arizona
Outdoor
3,000 Meter Steeplechase: Ida Nilsson (2004)
Discus: Anna Soderberg (1996)
Indoor
Mile: Johanna Nilsson (2003)
Cross Country
Angela Chalmers (1986)
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