Princeton head men’s track and field coach Fred Samara has been named the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, his fifth such honor. Additionally, Columbia assistant coach Gavin O’Neal was named the Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year for the Northeast Region.
Samara — in his 32nd season as the head coach of the Tigers — has won 28 Ivy League titles across three sports and coached more than 200 individual Heptagonal champions.
The Tigers won the 2010 Indoor Heps title as a record 13 members of the team were Ivy League champions en route to 181 points, second all-time. During the season Princeton athletes reached NCAA Provisional qualifying marks 10 times and 14 athletes recorded personal bests in their events.
In his fourth year at Columbia, O’Neal assisted in leading the women’s team to a second-place finish at Heps, compiling the highest point total (110) in program history. His sprinters, jumpers, and hurdlers brought home four individual titles as well as the meet’s award for the Most Outstanding Performer (Sharay Hale). Hale and high jumper Monique Roberts will compete in the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships this weekend.
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