Walter Curry is in his sixth season as
head men's & women's track & field coach for the Cardinals in 2006-07.
Walter brought eight
years of experience as an assistant track & field coach at Boston
College to Wesleyan. Walter had success coaching three Division I
All-Americans and numerous Big East all-conference and all-New England
performers during his stint at B.C. In his six-year tenure at
Wesleyan, Walter has had 19 NCAA qualifiers (11 indoors and eight
outdoors) and nine All-Americans (seven indoor, two outdoor), one of whom
is a 2003 NCAA indoor national champion in the 55-meter dash.
Walter is a 1987 graduate of Iowa State University
where he was an outstanding sprinter and hurdler for the Cyclones and
was part of their indoor and outdoor Big Eight conference champion
squads with several individual top-three conference finishes, a place on
the 110-meter hurdles top-10 list a trip to the NCAA Division I
Championships in 1986 to his credit.
Walter began coaching while a student at Iowa State,
working with the Cyclones' summer camp in 1985 and 1986. In recent
years he has been a clinician for hurdles events at the Brown University
track & field camp since 1998 and was a guest clinician at the 2000 and
2001 New England High School Track & Field Coaches Clinic. He is
the writer, co-producer and clinician for an instructional video on
hurdling which was first distributed nationally by Championship Books
and Video Productions in 1998.
A U.S.A.T.F. level II certified coach in sprints,
hurdles and jumps, Walter specializes in these events at Wesleyan.
Walter resides in Torrington, Conn. with his wife Judy and their three
children - Olivia (15), Dante (10) and Austin (8).
John Crooke -
Assistant Coach (Distance)
John Crooke enters his eighth season as head
men’s and women’s cross country coach and assistant track coach,
specializing in distance events, at Wesleyan University in 2006-07. Under his
guidance both men’s and women’s cross-country team have risen steadily
in regional and national rankings. The 2002 women’s team qualified for
the NCAA
championships for the first time in school history and repeated the
effort in 2004, placing 14th. The men qualified for the NCAAs for the
first time in 2005, also coming in 14th, and repeated as a national
qualifier in 2006 with a 15th-place showing. John was honored by the
national coaches association as New England Division III Coach of the
Year in men's cross country and added NESCAC Co-Coach of the Year as
well in 2005.
John was acting head coach for both track teams during the outdoor season in
2000-01 and guided the women’s team to a third-place finish in the NESCAC championships which was the highest conference finish in school
history.
Prior to his appointment at Wesleyan, John served as head
men's and women's cross-country and track & field coach at Hiram College
in Hiram, Ohio, for the 1998 and 1999 seasons. He was associate head
cross-country and track & field coach at Widener College in Chester, Pa.
(1996-98) where he directed the women's programs, and head boy's and
girl's cross country and track & field coach at Lower Merion High School
in Ardmore, Pa. (1988-95).
Graduating from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia in
1983, John went on to earn his master's degree with a concentration in
sport and athletic administration from West Chester University in 1996.
While a student at St. Joseph's, John was a team captain in both cross
country and track, earning all-Atlantic 10 honors in each while also
receiving all-East accolades in cross country. He is a member of his
alma mater's track & field Hall of Fame.
Andrea Clarke - Assistant
Coach Tim Johnson - Assistant
Coach (Throws) Steve Maheu - Assistant Coach
Walter Curry - Head
Women's Track Coach