Delgado earns first award after taking over the helm of the Track & Field program this summer
USTFCCCA Announces NCAA Division II Regional Award Winners
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EASTON, Mass. (March 9, 2020) – The Stonehill College women's and men's track & field head coach Michael Delgado has been named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) East Region Women's Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year, as announced by the organization on last week.
Delgado, who returned to Stonehill Athletics in August 2018 as the men's and women's cross country and track & field assistant coach, was promoted to the Head Coach of men's and women's track & field programs in June 2019. This USTFCCCA East Region Women's Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year is his first recognition from the association.
Three weekends ago, Delgado led the women's team to their seventh-straight Northeast-10 Conference Indoor Track & Field Championship. On Friday, February 21 at the Reggie Lewis Center, the women totaled 152.50 points, 54.5 points ahead of runner-up Assumption College who combined for 98 points. In the two-day meet, Stonehill earned 11 individual All-Conference honors and one relay accolade, while there were two individual titles.
Freshman Haley Lightbody won the individual title in the pole vault, as this is the second time in three years that a Skyhawk has won the title in pole vault with a height of 11 feet, 9.75 inches, a personal best and NCAA provisional qualifying mark. The quartet of seniors Alyssa Freeman, Claire Hurtado, sophomore Claire Mason, and junior Jillian Howard ran in the 4000-meter distance medley relay where they finished first with a time of 12:17.07. This is the 13th time since 2002 that Stonehill has won the DMR, and sixth time in nine years.
The women won their seventh-straight NE10 Indoor Title, his first as head coach |
With the women's seventh-straight indoor title, the women have totaled 14-straight championships, including cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field. Over the past 20 NE10 Championships, the Stonehill women have won 19.
Delgado returned to Stonehill after a 10-year stint as an assistant track & field coach at Boston University, where he was part of Robyne Johnson's staff that was tabbed Women's Coaching Staff of the Year at the America East Indoor Championship in 2008 and 2012. He also assisted in there NEICAAA champions, four ECAC champions, six NCAA outdoor regional qualifiers, two NCAA Indoor Championship qualifiers, and two NCAA Outdoor Championship qualifiers. He also saw the women's track & field team to three Patriot League Championships during his tenure, two women's cross country titles, and one men's.
Stonehill is now off until Saturday, March 28, when they open the outdoor season with the River Hawk Invitational, hosted by the University of Massachusetts Lowell at the Cushing Field Complex.
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