Peter Slovenski has coached Cross Country and Track at Bowdoin since 1987.
Bowdoin teams regularly finish among the top 5 teams in New England Division III
championships, and in nine seasons placed among the top 20 teams in NCAA
Division III.
Slovenski was the New England Division III Coach of the Year for
Men's Cross-country in 1991 and for Indoor Track in 2000. He was voted Coach of
the Year for New England III Women's cross-country in 1991 and 1992. He has also
won NESCAC Coach of the Year for men's cross-country in 2000, 2001, and 2002.
Slovenski is a 1979 graduate of Dartmouth College, and a 1980
graduate of Stanford University's School of Education. At Dartmouth he was a
4-year letterwinner in winter and spring track. He set freshman records in the
decathlon and pole vault in 1976. He made the All-Ivy League track team as a
pole vaulter in 1977 and 1978.
Slovenski has twice served as NCAA Championship Meet Director when Bowdoin
hosted the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships in 1989
and 1993. He co-founded the Dick Fosbury Track & Field Camp which he co-directs
with Dick Fosbury.
A 2002 Bowdoin graduate of Bowdoin College, Casey (Kelley) Ellis returned to
Brunswick in 2010 as an assistant track coach. A two-season track captain for
the women's team, she established a school record in the triple jump and placed
13th in the 2002 NCAA Championships. She was the ECAC champion in the triple
jump in 2000, and a NESCAC All-Academic Athlete in 2001. She also competed for
Bowdoin in the javelin and heptathlon.
After college she earned a Master's
degree in Education from Stanford University, where she also worked in graduate
admissions. From 2008 through 2010 Ellis was an assistant track coach at
Colby. At Bowdoin, she coaches the horizontal jumps and the throwing events.
In her first season at Bowdoin, she coached athletes who made earned All-New
England III honors in the weight throw, long jump, triple jump, and pentathlon.
Currently, Ellis holds two USATF Level II certifications in the throws and
jumps.
Athletic Director at the Bayview Glen School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada since 2005. Slovenski was a decathlete and All-American pole vaulter at Bates College in 1984. He went on to be an assistant coach for field events at Tufts University and MIT. He was the head coach of women’s track & field at MIT for 8 years from 1997 through 2005. While at MIT he coached All-New England throwers in the shot put, hammer, discus, and javelin.
Steve Slovenski competed in the decathlon for Princeton University for four years at the varsity level. Slovenski graduated in 2009 and has spent two years coaching high school track at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania.