Steve Patrick begins his 11th season as Cortland's cross country head coach in 2018. Patrick also serves as Cortland's men's and women's track and field head coach - a position he attained in the summer of 2007.
Patrick was named the 2008 Division III Men's Cross Country National Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) after leading the Red Dragons to their first NCAA Division III title. He was also recognized as both the Atlantic Region Coach of the Year and the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Coach of the Year. In addition to leading Cortland's men's cross country team to the national title in 2008, he guided the women's team to a ninth-place national finish - the program's 16th top-10 NCAA showing.
Patrick's men's cross country teams have qualified for nationals six times, and his women's squads have made three national appearances. In 2014, Cortland finished 19th nationally and second in the SUNYAC on the men's side and 26th nationally and third in the SUNYAC on the women's side. In 2013, he guided the men to a 13th-place NCAA finish and both the NCAA Atlantic Region and SUNYAC titles. He was chosen as the Atlantic Region Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year for the third time and the SUNYAC Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year for the second time.
In 2012, he led the men's cross country team to a 23rd-place NCAA finish and a SUNYAC runner-up showing. In 2011, he led the men to a 20th-place NCAA finish and second in the SUNYAC. In 2010, he earned SUNYAC Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year honors after leading the Red Dragons to a conference title. The team also finished 15th at the NCAA Championships. In 2009, Patrick earned his second straight men's Atlantic Region Coach of the Year honor after the Red Dragons repeated as regional champion. The squad went on to finish fifth nationally at the NCAA Division III Championships. Patrick served as an assistant coach in the program in the fall of 2007.
In the spring of 2008, Patrick was named the USTFCCCA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Division III Atlantic Region Coach of the Year after leading Cortland to a second-place national finish along with a SUNYAC title and an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III runner-up finish. Among his 12 NCAA men's outdoor track and field qualifiers that season 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. In the 2008-09 track and field season, Patrick was honored as the SUNYAC Men's Indoor Coach of the Year and coached outdoor national pole vault champion Jake Zanetti.
In the 2009-10 season, Cortland's men's track and field finished second in the SUNYAC during both the indoor and outdoor seasons and the women placed second at the outdoor championships.
Patrick was voted as the SUNYAC Women's Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year four straight years from 2011-14 as his squad captured four straight league titles. He led the Cortland women to three straight SUNYAC indoor titles from 2012-14 and was named SUNYAC Women's Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year in each of those three seasons, and was also tabbed as the USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Women's Indoor Coach of the Year for the 2011-12 season.
In the spring of 2013, Patrick was named the USTFCCCA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Atlantic Region and the SUNYAC Men's Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year, each for the second straight year. His men's teams won SUNYAC outdoor titles in 2012 and 2013 and the 2013 ECAC indoor crown.
Patrick was tabbed as both SUNYAC Men's Indoor and Outdoor Track and FIeld Coach of the Year in the 2015-16 season, the league's men's outdoor top coach in 2017, and the Atlantic Region Men's Indoor Coach of the Year in both 2015-16 and 2016-17. The program tied for fifth nationally outdoors and placed ninth indoors in 2017, led by Jack Flood's national titles in the decathlon and heptathlon, and the team tied for 10th place nationally outdoors in 2016 behind national high jump champion Nick Vachon. Cortland's men won both indoor and outdoor SUNYAC titles in 2016 and the outdoor crown in 2017.
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 and his wife, Marissa, have two sons, Daniel and Kyler.
