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Brett Hull, HEAD COACH
Hull's track and field athletes captured Liberty League titles in six events, earned three all-state honors, and broke 10 school records in 2008. James Russell '09 won his third straight New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) outdoor title in the pole vault at the 2008 NESCAC championships. Kosgei breezed to victory in the 800 and the 1,500-meter run at the 2008 meet. Kosgei was later selected the 2008 NCAA Division III Indoor and Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Hull has guided 74 indoor and outdoor individual conference champions and one athlete to six NCAA track and field titles while at Hamilton. A total of 31 school records have been broken or tied since Hull arrived in 1991. Academic excellence is also important to Hull. Greg Fullman '09, Keith Gross '09 and Allan Guiney '08 made the 2008 NESCAC spring all-academic team after the outdoor track and field season. Hull is a USATF Level I and Level II certified coach. Overall, he has developed 15 All-Americans, including national champions in the 800, 1,500 and 5,000 meters, the mile and the steeplechase. Hull was the head cross country and track and field coach at SUNY Cortland and SUNY Plattsburgh before arriving at Hamilton. He was named the SUNYAC Coach of the Year while at Cortland in 1985-86. Hull is the recipient of bachelor's and master's degrees from Frostburg State University in Maryland. He resides in New Hartford with his wife Ellen, who is Hamilton's head women's cross country and track and field coach. They have two daughters -- Emily and Juliet. Steve Bellona, ASSISTANT COACH
Bellona coaches the men's and women's middle-distance and distance runners. Peter Kosgei '10 has finished first in six events at the NCAA indoor and outdoor championships and has earned six All-America awards in track and field under Bellona's guidance. Kosgei won the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2007 Division III outdoor championships. He repeated his steeplechase victory in 2008 and added a title in the 5,000-meter run. At the 2008 indoor national meet, Kosgei captured first place in the mile and 800-meter run in a matter of about 90 minutes. Kosgei won the mile with a school-record time at the 2009 national meet. Kosgei finished first and made the New England Small College Athletic Conference all-conference team for the 800 and 1,500-meter run at the 2008 conference championships. He also won the steeplechase at the 2007 NESCAC meet. Keith Gross '09 made the all-conference team for the steeplechase at the 2007 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III outdoor championships. Allan Guiney '08 made the 2007 all-ECAC indoor team for the 3,000 meters at the conference meet. Indoor program records have fallen in the 800, 1,500, mile, 3,000 and 5,000 meters since Bellona arrived at Hamilton. Outdoor team records were broken in the 800, 1,500, steeplechase and 5,000 meters in 2008. William Spicer, ASSISTANT COACH
Spicer won three New York state football championships in seven years as head coach at Onondaga Central Schools. Spicer's career record at Onondaga was 67-8 from 1999 to 2005. He won Class D state titles in 2001 and 2003, and a Class C crown in 2002. His teams won a Section III record 43 straight games. Spicer is a three-time state Coach of the Year and a 2003 recipient of the President Gerald R. Ford All-American Football Coach Award. Spicer was the program's assistant coach in 1998. He also coached wrestling, track and field and softball during his Onondaga career. Prior to moving back to central New York, Spicer was an assistant varsity football coach at Woodmont High School in Greenville, South Carolina. Spicer graduated from Chittenango High School and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in physical education from SUNY Cortland in 1994. He played varsity football at Cortland in 1992 and 1993. Spicer received a masters degree in physical education and health from Cortland in 1999. He was an assistant varsity football coach and the head junior varsity coach at Cortland in 1995. Spicer and his wife Jessica live in Marcellus, N.Y., with their two children, Michael and Makayla. Jerry Tine, ASSISTANT COACH
Tine has coached James Russell '09 to three New England Small College Athletic Conference outdoor pole vault titles at the conference championships. Since Tine joined the coaching staff in 2002, indoor and outdoor pole vault records, and an indoor triple jump mark have fallen on the men's side. All indoor and outdoor pole vault, long jump and triple jump records on the women's side were broken in the past two years. Tine has more than 20 years of collegiate and high school coaching experience. He is an accredited USA Track and Field Level I coach and serves as the New York State coach for the USATF Olympic Pole Vault Development Committee. He is also an assistant coach for the Hamilton football team. |
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Brett Hull is in his 18th season as head coach of the Hamilton College men's cross country and track and field programs. Hull has guided Peter Kosgei '10 to six NCAA individual titles and six All-America awards in track and field since the 2007 Division III outdoor championships. In 2008 alone, Kosgei finished first in the 800-meter run and the mile at the NCAA indoor meet, and added victories in the steeplechase and 5,000-meter run at the outdoor championships. Kosgei successfully defended his title in the mile at the 2009 indoor championships. He was joined at the 2009 NCAA meet by TiDelco Ductan '09 (triple jump).
Steve Bellona is in his 12th season as an assistant coach at Hamilton. Bellona was a middle distance coach at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy prior to arriving at Hamilton. He was inducted into the Coast Guard Academy Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 2.
Bill Spicer is in his third year as an assistant coach for the outdoor track and field teams at Hamilton College. He coaches the javelin and discus throwers. Spicer guided Ryan Messier '09 to all-league honors in the javelin as Messier finished second at the 2007 Liberty League championships. On the women's side, Kary Pardy '08 set a school record in the discus and Laura Belden '07 broke her own team record in the javelin under Spicer. Belden earned all-league, all-NESCAC and all-ECAC honors for the javelin in 2007.
Jerry Tine is in his seventh season as an assistant coach at Hamilton College. Tine coaches the pole vault and horizontal jumps. Akilah Bond '09 earned All-America honors in the triple jump at the 2007 and 2009 NCAA Division III championships under Tine's guidance. Bond qualified for the indoor and outdoor NCAA meets for the triple jump in 2008. TiDelco Ductan '09 competed in the triple jump at the 2009 national indoor championships.