Steve Patrick enters his second season as Cortland's track and field head coach in the 2008-09 school year. He was also named the school's cross country head coach in the summer of 2008.
Patrick was named the 2008 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 track and field 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 has been a lecturer in the College’s physical education department. Among his responsibilities as an assistant was coaching Cortland’s hurdlers, including 2007 NCAA Division III women’s 100-meter hurdles and heptathlon champion Christina Acquaviva. He currently coaches the sprinters, hurdlers, jumpers and multi-event athletes.
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 has obtained USA Track and Field Level II Certification in the sprints, hurdles and relays and has also been a certified USA Track and Field Level I course instructor. He has served as a frequest contributor to Track Coach, the technical publication for coaches published by USA Track and Field. He is also a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
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.
