7/18/2008
Steve Patrick has been announced as SUNY Cortland's new men's and women's cross country head coach, according to director of athletics Joan Sitterly. Patrick served as an assistant coach for the teams last season. Patrick will also retain his position as Cortland's men's and women's track and field head coach, which he attained last summer.
Patrick replaces Matthew Moran, who accepted a teaching position at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. Moran led the Red Dragon men to third-place and fourth-place national finishes in two of his three seasons as head coach.
Last season, Patrick was named the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Men's Outdoor Track and Field Division III Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. He guided Cortland to a second-place national finish along with a State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) title and an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III runner-up finish. Among his 12 NCAA men's qualifiers was 100-meter and 200-meter dash national champion Amaan Siddeeq. Patrick also earned SUNYAC Men's Outdoor Track and Field and Women's Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year awards during the 2007-08 season.
Patrick served as an assistant track and field coach for the Red Dragons from 2004-07 and was a lecturer in the College’s physical education department. Among his responsibilities was coaching Cortland’s hurdlers, including 2007 NCAA Division III women’s 100-meter hurdles and heptathlon champion Christina Acquaviva.
Previously, Patrick was an assistant track and field coach at Ithaca College from 2002-04 and an assistant cross country coach at Cortland in the fall of 2003. Prior to those duties, he was the track and field head coach and an assistant coach for the cross country programs at SUNY Cobleskill from 2000-02. He also coached Cobleskill’s men’s soccer team in 2001. While at Cobleskill, Patrick coached eight National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division III national champions and 17 NJCAA Division III All-Americans. Patrick was also a track and field and cross country assistant coach at Cortland in the 1999-2000 school year.
Patrick competed in cross country and track and field for four seasons at Cortland, competing in the NCAA Division III Championships in 1993. Patrick is a 1997 graduate of Cortland, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education. In 2000, Patrick earned a master’s degree in exercise physiology from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
A native of Batavia, N.Y., Patrick lives in Cortland with his wife, Marissa, and their sons, Daniel and Kyler.