Vicki Mitchell Head Coach Ninth Season as Head Coach 11th Season Overall Email: vam3@buffalo.edu Phone: 716-645-6815 Office: 163 E Alumni

Vicki Mitchell is now in her 11th season with the UB program and has been the head men’s and women’s cross country coach and women’s track and field coach since 2002. As well as her additional head coaching duties, Mitchell serves as the recruiting director for the team.

Mitchell’s highlights at UB include the highest team placing at the MAC Championships during the outdoor track & field 2007 campaign with a fifth-place team finish. UB produced the MAC indoor distance medley relay champion foursome and 2006 MAC mile champion Jennifer Jezorski. In 2004, Jennifer Koeppel became the first UB woman to qualify for the NCAA Cross Country Championshps. Koeppel also won the MAC Cross Country and 10,000-meter titles. Middle distance standout Allison Laske competed in the 800-meter run at the NCAA Outdoor National Championships and competed at the 2004 United States Olympic Trials. In 2001, Jerimie Slick became the first UB runner in over 30 years to compete at the NCAA National Cross Country Championships. In addition, Mitchell has had several athletes qualify for the USATF Junior National Championships every year.

Prior to arriving at UB in 1999, Mitchell served as the assistant cross country and track and field coach at William Jewell College in Kansas City, Missouri. Mitchell also spent five years at Holy Angels Academy in Buffalo where she taught physical education and was the head cross country and track and field coach. A native Western New Yorker, she is a 1987 graduate of Amherst Central School.

A distinguished athlete and international competitor, Mitchell competed in the 1996 U.S. Olympic 10,000-meter Trials. She made her marathon debut at the 1999 Hong Kong Marathon, where she qualified for the 2000 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. In 2001, she was invited to join the Fila Discovery USA training program, a program designed to develop American distance runners into elite marathon athletes able to compete with the best in the world. She has been a member of five USA national teams, including the 1993 World University Games and 1998 IAAF World Road Race Championship in Manaus, Brazil.

Mitchell received her B.S.E. in physical education from Cortland State in 1991 and a master’s in exercise physiology from North Carolina-Greensboro in 1994. While at Cortland State, Mitchell was a seven-time NCAA champion and 10-time All-American in leading the Red Dragons to NCAA Division III national championships in cross country and track. In 2003, she was named Cortland’s Western New York Alum of the Year, and in 2004 she was inducted to the Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame.

THE MITCHELL FILE

EDUCATION B.S.E. in Physical Education, SUNY Cortland, 1991 M.S. in Exercise Physiology, UNC-Greensboro, 1994

ATHLETIC CAREER Seven time NCAA Cross Country/Track and Field National Champion Ten time All-American Member of five USA National Teams 1994 Penn Relay 10,000-meter champion 1996 Olympic 10,000-meter Trials 2000 Olympic Marathon Trials 2001 Fila Discovery USA Training Program

COACHING CAREER 1993-98, Head Cross Country/Track and Field Coach, Holy Angels Academy 1998-99, Distance Coach, William Jewell College 1999-2002, Assistant Coach, Cross Country/Distance/Recruiting Coordinator, University at Buffalo 2002-Present, Head Cross Country/Women's Track & Field Coach/ Recruiting Coordinator, University at Buffalo