Steve Patrick enters his fifth season as Cortland's track and field head coach in the 2011-12 school year. He also begins his fourth year as the Red Dragons' cross country head coach in 2011.
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 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. During the 2008-09 season, Patrick was named the SUNYAC Men's Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year. Among those he coached were outdoor NCAA pole vault champion Jake Zanetti and women's indoor high jump national runner-up Kristen Serikstad.
In 2009-10, Cortland's men placed second in the SUNYAC during both the indoor and outdoor seasons and the women finished second in the league at the outdoor championships. In the spring of 2011, Patrick was voted as the SUNYAC Women's Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year after the Red Dragons won the league title.
Patrick led Cortland's men's cross country team to the 2008 NCAA Division III title and the women's team to a ninth-place national finish. He was selected as the USTFCCCA Division III Men's Cross Country National Coach of the Year, Atlantic Region Coach of the Year and SUNYAC Coach of the Year.
In 2009, he repeated as the men's Atlantic Region Coach of the Year as the Red Dragons won the regional title and finished fifth in the nation. In 2010, he earned SUNYAC Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year honors as his squad won the conference crown and finished 15th at the NCAA Championships.
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.
