Director & High Jump Coach: Dick Fosbury
Dick Fosbury was the 1968 Olympic Champion in the high jump. He won the Olympic Gold Medal in Mexico City with a jump of 7' 4.25", setting new American and Olympic records. Fosbury revolutionized high jump technique with his 'Fosbury Flop'-- one of the great innovations in track & field history.
Fosbury is an outstanding coach and mentor for high school and junior high school athletes. He has been the high jump coach at what is now known as the Dick Fosbury Track Camp since 1991. He is excited about the new camp at Panther Pond where campers will have the opportunity to experience top-notch technical track & field instruction and a beautiful summer camp setting.
Fosbury is the president of the World Olympians Association. He was inducted into the U.S. Oylmpic Hall of Fame in 1992. While a student at Oregon State University, he won the 1968 NCAA high jump championship.
Director & Distance Events: Peter Slovenski
Peter Slovenski has coached Track & Field at Bowdoin since 1987. 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. At Dartmouth he was a 4-year letterwinner in winter and spring track. He made the All-Ivy League track team as a pole vaulter in 1977 and 1978.
Terry O'Neill: Sprints
Coach Terry O'Neill has been obsessed with speed from a very early age; he joined his first track club at age six and has been racing ever since. Terry ran with Speed Dynamics Atlanta from 1999 to 2001 under world class coaches Loren Seagrave and Paul Doyle. Experiencing what top-notch coaching can do for an athlete's results, O'Neill became inspired to learn everything he could about speed training across all sports. He has been sprint Coach for Greater Boston Track Club, Men's and Women's Sprints/Hurdles/Jumps coach at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Women's Sprints/Hurdles coach at M.I.T. and Sprints/Hurdles/Jumps coach at Notre Dame: San Jose in California. He has also coached speed for other sports including World Championship qualifying Ultimate Frisbee team "Six Trained Monkeys" and the Irish National Bobsled team. Terry coaches recreational runners too and has coached over thirty adults to complete their first Triathlon.
"The most important thing I know about speed is that it can be taught. People have this belief that endurance is made and speed is born, but it's just not true. Yes, we all have a different starting point, but everyone can learn to be faster, quicker and more agile. With proper acceleration and sprinting technique learned from the right drills, a nervous system tuned by the correct workouts, and muscles conditioned from rigorous hard work, any athlete can become considerably faster".
As an High School athlete Coach O'Neill was twice Massachusetts class D champion in the 300m Hurdles and anchored the Class winning 4x400m relay team. At the University of Massachusetts he was a four year letterman and the teams highest scoring sprinter as a Freshman. After graduating with a Computer Systems Engineering degree Terry was New England club champion in the 400m hurdles and a finalist at the Irish National Championships in the same event. In 2004 and 2005 he was a member of the Irish Two-Man bobsled team qualifying for the World Championships in 2005 and eventually placing 35th.
Colin Tory: Long and Triple Jump
Tory is the head track and field and cross-country coach for Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in NY, where he has coached since 1996. Tory was the 2004 NCAA National Men's Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year. He has worked at the Dick Fosbury track camp for many years.
George Mendros: Hurdles
George Mendros is the head boys track coach at Thorton Academy in Maine. He was the 2008 Coach of the Year for Maine track and field. Mendros has coached dozens of state champions and all-New England athletes during his tenure at Thornton.
David Slovenski: Pole Vault
Dave Slovenski is a former Nike Outdoor National Pole Vault Champion. He is the captain of the Princeton University track team and holds the Princeton and Ivy League pole vault records at 17-7.
Steve Slovenski: Decathlon
Steve graduated from Princeton in 2009 where he competed in the decathlon for 4 years. He was a three time Ivy-Leauge Championship scorer, including a 4th place finish in the Heptathlon in 2009.
Casey Ellis: Throws
Coach Ellis is the throws coach for Bowdoin College.
Mark Johnson: Hurdles
1976 All-Conference Hurdler in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
Personal bests of 14.5 in the 110 HH and 55.7 in the 400 hurdles