Mike will get started in his first year at Amherst and will be responsible for the Sprints and Throws, as well as coordinating the Strength and Conditioning programs for the team. Prior to the start of his Amherst College coaching tenure, Mike was an assistant coach the past two years at Springfield College working with their jumpers, throwers and sprinters. Before coming back to his alma mater, he was the Head Coach of the Boys and Girls Team at E. O. Smith High School in Connecticut. Mike graduated from Springfield College in 2008 with a Degree in Business Management, and then earned his MS in Advanced Level Coaching from there in 2012. While at Springfield, he was one of the region's best decathletes and jumpers, earning ECAC Titles in 2006 and 07 in the multi while winning conference honors in the high jump, and was the team MVP in 2008. He has participated at the national level in the sport, earning a Javelin Championship at the Club Nationals in 2010 and his knowledge and success in a breadth of events will be of tremendous benefit to the program.

Ben will help out as a volunteer coach with the cross-country and track & field teams this year. Ben graduated summa cum laude from Amherst in 2011 with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics, and is currently working towards his Ph. D at UMass Amherst. While running at Amherst College, Ben earned NESCAC All-Academic Honors and was a member of the 2007 New England Regional Championship winning team that would ultimately go on to finish 12th at NCAA Nationals. In the fall of 2011, he was a member of the Varsity XC team at UMass Amherst and is currently running for the Western Mass Distance Project Team.

Bob is an Amherst native and in addition to working as a volunteer coach with the XC program this fall, he also practices law in Springfield where has been since January 1977. He was a 1973 graduate of Stony Brook ( named Stony Brook athlete of the year for 1971-72) and got his Law Degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1976. While in law school was the coach of the Wash U. men's cross country team- 1974 and 1975.He has been a volunteer assistant cross country and track coach at Amherst Regional High School for 10 years and been in charge of distance runners during indoor track season for past two years and also, he advises and assists two professional Kenyan distance runners. He has been a competitive distance runner since 1967 and continues to compete in road races and has some best marks of 10 miles in 51:36; 30k in 1:41; marathon in 2:35:40.

Amy will continue to work as a volunteer coach with the cross-country runners in the fall. Amy earned All-American honors while running track and cross country for Boston College, and continues to compete for the Boston Athletic Association. She has competed at the 2000 Olympic Trials in the 1500 and has also competed at the Indoor Track and Cross Country National Championships. Her current personal bests are 56 400m, 2:08 800m, 4:18 1500m, 5k 16:20, 5 Miles 26:45, 10 Miles 58:57 and the marathon in 2:53. She is a full time elementary teacher in the Belchertown school district.