Kevin Semanick joined the Emory Track and Field staff prior to the 2007-08 season. His responsibilities include working with the sprinters, hurdlers, jumpers and vaulters.
In just two years, his athletes have recorded 26 national qualifying marks in the sprint, hurdle, relay and horizontal jump events. Semanick has coached ten All-Americans, in five individual events and two relays. His coaching helped propel the 2008 Emory men's team to a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. His athletes have set 14 and six outdoor school records.
Semanick has helped lead his athletes to 17 individual
conference championships and the men's University Athletic
Association (UAA) Championship during the 2009 indoor season,
earning Semanick recognition as a member of UAA Coaching Staff of
the Year. His athletes have garnered 57 all-conference awards
and six UAA Most Valuable Performer honors, while breaking seven
conference records.
Prior to Emory, Kevin worked at Rhodes College (Tenn.), where
he served as an assistant coach for the sprints, hurdles, and
jumps, and was credited with turning their sprint program around.
During his two-year tenure, his athletes broke nine school records
and five conference championship records, while winning nine events
at the 2007 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC)
championship meet. Additionally, for the first time in several
years, Rhodes sprinters and jumpers competed in the NCAA National
Championships. Rhodes women had qualifiers in the long jump, triple
jump, 200-meter dash, 400-meter dash, 4x100 meter relay, and 4x400
meter relay. The 4x400 meter relay team had the distinction of
being the first ever women's relay team from the SCAC to compete at
NCAA National Championships.
Semanick was a two-time all-American and Academic all-American
at The College of New Jersey, earning both statistics and finance
degrees in 2004. He continues to compete, holding
a personal best of 52.20 seconds in the intermediate hurdles.
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