Curtin joined Emory University as track and field coach at the
start of the 1985-86 school year. His belief in individualized
training programs has resulted in athletic and academic success for
his student-athletes within a team concept.
Most recently, Curtin helped lead the Emory women
to three-straight UAA Championships, two during the outdoor
season (2010 and 2011) and one during the indoor campaign
(2011). He has now won nine women's conference
championship and 19 overall between the men's and women's
squads. Curtin was named the South/Southeast
Women's Indoor Coach of the Year and the UAA Coach of the
Year (indoor and outdoor) for the second-straight year in
2011.
In 2010, Curtin oversaw all-American performances from three
different athletes, coached two team members to South/Southeast
Region Indoor Performer of the Year honors and two UAA Most
Outstanding Performer honors.
In 2009 season Curtin helped lead the Emory men's track and field
team to the UAA Indoor Track and Field Championship, and coached
members of the women's team to all-America finishes in the indoor
long jump and the outdoor 4x100-meter relay. Curtin was named
the region's Coach of the Year in 2009. During the 2008
season, Curtin saw his team members combine for 14 all-America
certificates between the indoor and outdoor seasons. His
men's outdoor track and field team in 2008, which totaled eight
all-America honors, finished seventh in the nation, the best finish
in the program's history.
Curtin also oversaw a 10th-place finish by the Emory men's team at the 2004 NCAA Division III national outdoor championships. On the women's side, Curtin coached four All-America performances by Emory athletes at the 2002 NCAA Division III national outdoor championships, including two national champions (steeplechase and hammer). The women's team finished ninth, the best finish in school history, at the NCAA championships.
Other career highlights include three All-America performances by Emory athletes at the 2001 NCAA Division III national outdoor championships, including a national hammer throw champion; an All-America javelin thrower in 2000; eight All-America performances by Emory athletes at the 1997 NCAA outdoor championships; a national triple jump champion in 1995; and a school-record five All-Americans at the 1994 NCAA outdoor championships. That same year, Curtin was honored as the region's Coach of the Year.
In his 25 years at Emory, Curtin's track and field athletes have amassed four individual National Championships, 78 All-America certificates, 35 conference Most Valuable Performer awards, and 397 conference event championships.
Curtin was selected the region Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track Coaches Association for the 1994 outdoor season, 2003 indoor season (men), 2003 outdoor season (men), the 2004 outdoor season (men), the 2009 outdoor season (women), the 2010 indoor season (women), and the 2011 indoor season (women).
Seventeen times, he and his assistants have been honored by the University Athletic Association as its track and field "Coaching Staff of the Year," most recently during the 2011 women's outdoor season.
Prior to Emory, Curtin was the head men's cross country and track and field coach at Simpson College (Iowa) from 1979-85. He also coached the Simpson women's cross country and track teams for two years. In 1995, Curtin was inducted into Simpson's Sports Hall of Fame.
Mark Johnson joined the Emory University track and field program
as assistant coach in September of 2011. His duties
primarily consist of coaching the vertical jumps and throws while
assisting with the Eagles' multi-event athletes.
Johnson’s most recent coaching stint was at Sandia
Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexcio, where he was
responsible for the boys and girls throws and horizontal
jumps. He had nine state qualifiers representing every event
and coached one state champion.
Johnson served as an assistant track and field coach for the
men’s and women’s programs at Williams College in
2007-08, working with the multi-events, pole vault and high jump
performers. He helped coach both teams to New England and
NESCAC championships and had a pair of his athletes garner All-New
England and All-NESCAC acclaim.
Prior to his stint at Williams, Johnson was an assistant coach at
the University of New Mexico for two seasons (2005-06 and 2006-07)
where he designed and implemented workouts for multi-events and all
jumps. He coached a total of 10 NCAA Championships qualifiers
and mentored one All-American.
As an athlete, Johnson enjoyed a stellar career at the University
of New Mexico. He won the Mountain West Conference titles in
both the decathlon (2002) and heptathlon (2004) and finished 15th
in the decathlon at the 2004 NCAA Championships, scoring just shy
of his personal best of 7,325 points. A five-time all-MWC
honoree, Johnson also qualified for the 2004 NCAA Midwest Regional
Championships in the pole vault, finishing ninth with a career-best
vault of 16-05.25.
He was a two-year letterwinner at goalkeeper for the UNM men's soccer team, appearing in six games from 2000-01. He and skier Stian Erikson were the first two athletes in UNM history to appear at the NCAA Championships in two different sports. The two were teammates on the 2001 men's soccer team which advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Johnson earned First-Team Academic All-American honors for the Lobos in 2004. The Fontana, Wisconsin native graduated in 2003 with a degree in Spanish and in 2004 earned his MBA in Marketing and Operations Management. He posted a 3.85 undergraduate GPA, a 4.0 as a graduate student, and was a recipient of a 2004 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
Carl Leivers joined the Emory University Track and Field Team as
a volunteer assistant in the spring of 2006 before joining the
program in his current post in the fall. Carl also serves as the
Eagles' assistant cross country coach.
During his time at Emory, Leivers has named as part of the
University Athletic Association (UAA) Coaching Staff of the Year on
three occassions, in addition to helping the squad to
team titles during the 2009 Men's Indoor, 2010 Women's
Outdoor, and 2011 Women's Indoor and Outdoor conference
championships. Twelve of his athletes have won
individual conference championships under his tutelage.
Leivers graduated magna cum laude in earning his bachelor's
degree in sociology from Colorado Springs in 2003. While at CC, he
competed on the both the cross country and track and field teams.
He served as the track team's captain his senior year and was the
recipient of the program's "Most Inspirational" Award. He was team
captain of the cross country team his final year of competition in
2002.
After graduating, Leivers worked in the sociology department at
Colorado College where he served as a tutor for upper-level courses
and thesis projects. In addition, he created course web sites and
maintained the department's web site.
While living in Colorado Springs, he became Head of New Project
Development and Producer with Negative Split Pictures. Among his
duties there were the procurement of corporate funding and in-kind
donations to help finance the film Five Thousand Meters:
Nothing Comes Easy. He is the Co-Founder and Senior Event
Coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Distance Summit.
Madeleine Outman joined the Emory coaching staff prior to the
start of the 2010-11 season. Her responsibilities include
working with the Eagles' sprinters, horizontal jumpers, hurdlers,
and relays.
During her first season with the Eagles, Outman was named the
USTFCCCA South/Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year for the
outdoor season, in addition to being part of the University
Athletic Association's (UAA) Coaching Staff of the Year for both
Indoor and Outdoor track and field. Under Outman's
leadership, the Eagles claimed the conference title for both
seasons.
Ten of Outman's athletes qualified for the NCAA
Championships during her inaugural season with the team. In
addition, she helped her students win a total of eight individual
and three relay conference championships.
Outman joined the Eagles’ program after a standout career as
a competitor at Williams College (2005-06 & 2006-07) and as a
graduate student at NCAA Division II member Indiana University at
Pennsylvania (IUP) during the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons.
Outman was a six-time All-American in her two years at IUP (four
times at the 2010 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships) and
13 times overall. While an undergraduate student at Williams
College, she earned seven All-America honors and helped lead her
school to the Division III national championship in 2007.
Outman concluded her career as the holder of 12 IUP records
covering indoor and outdoor track and field, and also holds the
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) record in the outdoor
100 hurdles and the indoor pentathlon, giving her a total of four
top marks in the conference. She was the PSAC outdoor champion in
the heptathlon, 400 meter dash and 100 hurdles this past spring,
adding to titles in the heptathlon and 100 hurdles at the 2009
league meet. In addition to her impressive array of athletic
accomplishments, she served as a volunteer assistant coach for the
Crimson Hawks with one of her duties being the design and
implementation of strength and conditioning programs for sprinters,
hurdlers and multi-event competitors.
Outman was chosen as both the PSAC Outdoor Field Athlete of the
Year and the Field Athlete of the Year for the Atlantic Region
during her two-year stint at IUP. At this year’s D-II
championships, Outman placed third in the heptathlon, setting a
PSAC record with 5,392 points. She also lowered her own school
record and set another conference mark in finishing fifth in the
400 hurdles in 58.98 and also took seventh in the 100 hurdles and
eighth in the long jump.
At Williams College, she graduated with a double major in
psychology and American Studies in 2008. She recently
obtained her master’s degree from IUP in Sociology with a
perfect 4.0 grade point average. In addition, Outman was a Graduate
Merit Scholarship winner and was awarded a special graduate
assistantship with the Mid-Atlantic Research and Training Institute
from 2008-10. She served as project director of Fetal Alcohol
Awareness Week in 2009 and was the IUP and PSAC nominee for the
NCAA Woman of the Year.
Pedro Vasquez has served as an Emory assistant coach since 1981, working primarily with sprinters and middle-distance runners. He has been honored 17 times as a member of the University Athletic Association track & field "Coaching Staff of the Year." During his tenure, the Eagles have won 19 UAA team championships (11 men's and eight women's).
Vasquez has been a long-time active runner who won the 400-meter dash in the Masters division at the Georgia State Games four consecutive years. His 1994 winning time of 53.57 earned him All-America honors from USA Track & Field and placed him sixth in the nation in the men's 40-44 age division. He also has run the annual Peachtree Road Race (10,000 meters) many times.
He is a nationally certified track official, who worked the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta. Every year since 1996, Vasquez has worked as an official at the annual USA Track & Field Championships, including the 1996, 2000 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials. He has served as a board member for the Atlanta Track Club.
Vasquez is a 1982 graduate of Emory where he received his Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry. He completed undergraduate and master's studies at the University of Panama. Currently, he is a chemistry research instructor at Georgia State University.
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