Steve Patrick begins his third season as Cortland's cross country head coach in 2010 after serving as an assistant coach in the fall of 2007. 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.
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 Div. III Championships.
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 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.
