Gabe Sanders Named Assistant Track and Field Coach
September 3, 2008 | Women's Track & Field
Sept. 3, 2008
BOSTON - Gabe Sanders has been hired as an assistant coach with the Boston University track and field program, track and field director Robyne Johnson has announced. Sanders has previously served as an assistant coach at Colgate University and Williams College.
"We're very excited to have Gabe join our staff," said Johnson. "He's going to be a valued addition to our program and we look forward to having a great season with him as part of the team."
Sanders spent the last year as an assistant coach with the men's cross country and track and field teams at Colgate, where he designed and implemented training programs for all track and field student-athletes, directly overseeing sprints, jumps, hurdles and throws and assisting with middle distance runners.
Sanders helped the Raiders to their highest finishes at the Patriot League Indoor and Outdoor Championships since the inclusion of all eight schools in the league, while five school records were broken last season and 21 top-ten times were recorded, the most in one season in school history.
Prior to Colgate, Sanders served as an assistant coach for the men's and women's track and field teams at Williams for two seasons, where he oversaw jumpers and assisted with sprinters. While with the Ephs, he helped the event athletes earn 12 All-American certificates and set eight school records.
He served as the event coach for the USTFCCCA New England Region Field Athlete of the Year for both the indoor and outdoor seasons in 2007, while the event athletes under his watch contributed 21 of the team's 42 points to win the 2007 NCAA Division III women's indoor championship and four points to the men's 14th-place finish.
Sanders has also served as an assistant director and lead instructor at Sandy Sanders Camps of Champions, helping to design and implement speed and agility training programs for various teams in the Ann Arbor, Mich., area during the past eight years. He was the lead instructor at the University of Michigan Track and Field Camp and has also worked with Olympic and elite level track and field athletes.
Sanders competed at Michigan for the 2002-03 seasons as a sprinter and jumper. After being sidelined with injury, he switched to the coaching and administrative side, serving as the Wolverines' undergraduate administrative assistant and student assistant coach, where he was responsible for assisting the coaching staff in day-to-day operations, including home meet management, equipment management, aiding in recruiting efforts, supervising student managers and implementing workouts with specific event athletes.
While at Michigan, Sanders was the head meet manager at the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championship hosted by the Wolverines in 2004, where he was responsible for recruitment, assignment and supervision of volunteer meet personnel, assisting in the design of the meet setup, coordinating meet setup and takedown and serving as the meet's manager and troubleshooter. Sanders was also a counselor at the Michigan Summer Track and Field Camp and Speed and Agility Camp for four years.
Sanders earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in kinesiology with a major in sport management and communication from the University of Michigan in December 2005. He is a USA Track and Field Level I and II certified coach in the sprints, hurdles, relays and jumping events. Sanders currently resides in Somerville.
