Chris Bostwick Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 3rd Year

Chris Bostwick enters his fourth season as an assistant coach at Miami. Bostwick's duties include coaching the sprints, jumps and pole vault.

The 2004 season was a banner year for Bostwick and his corps of sprinters and jumpers, highlighted by the performance of freshman NCAA qualifier Lashonda Davis, as well as both the 4x100 and 4x400 relays. Davis, who entered Miami with a PR of 18-9 1/2 in the long jump, surpassed the school record in her first jumps, both indoors and outdoors. School records also fell in 2004 for both the 4x100 and 4x400 teams with the 400-meter relay team, Davis included, earning MAC gold and a bid to the NCAA Mideast Regional.

The past year was another record-breaker for Davis, who reset both the indoor (20-3 3/4) and outdoor (20-10 1/2) long jump records, won MAC silver medals in both, and qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She was one of two of Bostwick's student-athletes to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships, as rookie Sarah Landau, who broke both the indoor (12-11 1/2) and outdoor (13-7 3/4) Miami pole vault records, was one spot from earning All-America status at the national outdoor meet.

During his first year at Miami in 2002-03, the RedHawks saw unprecedented results, as school records fell in the pole vault, triple jump and 4x400 relays, twice.

Bostwick joined the RedHawk staff after two years at Binghamton University (N.Y.) as assistant men's and women's track coach. In addition to his recruiting duties at Binghamton, Bostwick coached the sprinters, vertical jumps, and horizontal jumps, along with the multi-event competitors. Over his last two years, he produced six conference champions,18 all-conference athletes, and five all-east selections.

Prior to his duties at Binghamton, he was a high school teacher and coach, helping 11 athletes place in New York State. Bostwick has earned his Level I and Level II certifications and is working toward a Level III certificaten in the USATF coaching program in the horizontal, vertical, and sprint events. He has been a featured speaker at the USATF Clinic in New York State, covering the sprints. While an undergraduate at Cortland State (N.Y.), he competed in the sprint events, earning all-conference honors 10 times, and was honored as Cortland's Athlete of the Year. He also was chosen to serve as team captain as a senior.

"Chris has done an excellent job since coming to Miami," says Ceronie. "I think the results of the athletes he coached is a strong statement of his abilities."

Bostwick graduated from Cortland State where he served as a graduate assistant coach under head coach and world-renowned exercise physiologist Dr. Jack Daniels. In that time, he coached 21 all-conference athletes and five all-Americans.