Ed Nuttycombe
From WikiRun
| Ed Nuttycombe | |
| Event | pole vault & decathlon |
|---|---|
| College | Virginia Tech |
Ed Nuttycombe is the men's head track coach of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers.[1] He is the son of Charles Nuttycombe, a high school track coach who has been inducted into the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame.
Contents |
Running career
A 1977 graduate in physical education from Virginia Tech, Nuttycombe was a four-year letter winner in track for the Hokies. While at Tech, the Richmond, Va., native won six Virginia collegiate pole vault titles, with a career best of 16-3. He was also a five-time Virginia AAU decathlon champion, with a personal-best of more than 7,100 points.
Coaching career
Before coming to Wisconsin as an assistant coach in 1980, Nuttycombe served as an assistant track coach at Northern Illinois University while earning his master’s degree in exercise physiology.
Over the last 13 years, the University of Wisconsin has dominated the Big Ten Conference in men’s track and field.
Big Ten Championships
Under Nuttycombe’s direction, the Badgers have won 10 of the last 12 league titles during the indoor season and 10 of the last 13 titles in outdoor track. Nuttycombe became the winning men’s track coach in Big Ten history in 2007 when his won his 23rd title.
For nine of the last 12 years, Wisconsin has won the Big Ten “Triple Crown”—conference titles in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track during the same academic year. The Badgers also won the “Triple Crown” in 1985–86, bringing their total to 10.
Individually, Nuttycombe has coached 148 Big Ten champions including nine-time champions Reggie Torian and Len Herring.
Nuttycombe’s athletes have been honored eight times as the Big Ten Indoor or Outdoor Athlete of the Year. Ten Badgers have been named the Big Ten Athlete of the Championships while two have been named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Seven athletes have also been named the UW’s Male Athlete of the Year.
NCAA Success
Wisconsin became the first Big Ten school to win a national title when it was crowned the 2007 NCAA Indoor Champion. It was also the first national title for a UW track program. Wisconsin crowned one national champion and picked up 10 All-America honors. Outdoors, the Badgers tied for seventh at the NCAA championships as senior Chris Solinsky won his second consecutive title at 5,000 meters. Four UW athletes earned All-America honors.
Under Nuttycombe, the Badgers have scored in 21 of 24 NCAA outdoor meets including 10 top-20 finishes. Indoors, Wisconsin has scored in 17 NCAA meets including the last 14 in a row. The Badgers have eight top-20 indoor finishes.
Nuttycombe has 10 individual national champions to his credit, including three in 1997 alone. That year, Torian won the 110-meter high hurdles, Pascal Dobert won the 3000-meter steeplechase and James Dunkleberger won the decathlon. Solinsky set the UW men’s athletic record in 2007 with five NCAA titles in his career.
A total of 159 track All-Americans have passed through Wisconsin during Nuttycombe’s tenure in the last 24 years. The list of honorees includes Solinsky, who has a UW record 11 All-America honors to his credit. Other notable athletes include Matt Tegenkamp, a seven-time All-American; Jason Casiano, James Menon and Len Herring, who are all six-time recipients.
Nuttycombe’s list of honorees also includes Olympians Dobert and Maxwell Seales.
Coach of the Year Honors
While his teams have produced year after year on the track, observers and peers of the track world have lauded Nuttycombe’s efforts with 28 coach of the year honors, including the 2007 indoor national coach of the year.
He swept the Big Ten Indoor and Outdoor Coach of the Year honors eight times, including the last four years in a row. Nuttycombe has been named the Big Ten Coach of the Year 19 times. He has also been honored with regional coach of the year accolades seven times.
Nuttycombe is a hands-on coach, leading the UW sprint hurdlers, jumpers and multi-event athletes. He coached Demi Omole to four consecutive titles in the Big Ten outdoor 100 meters and two titles in the indoor 60 meters. Omole wrapped up his career as a 11-time Big Ten champion and a six-time All-American. Wisconsin has won the Big Ten title in the 400-meter relay the last four seasons and Nuttycombe has coached 11 indoor and outdoor Big Ten high hurdle champions in the last 14 years.
Other success stories include:
- Joe Detmer, 2007 Big Ten Indoor champion in the heptathlon, 2007 Big Ten Outdoor champion in the decathlon, 2007 NCAA indoor and outdoor All-American;
- Paul Check, 2005 Big Ten Outdoor champion in the 110-meter hurdles;
- Dan Murray, 2002 Big Ten Outdoor champion at 800 meters, four-time All-American;
- T.J. Nelson, 2000 and 2001 Big Ten Indoor champion in the 60-meter hurdles, 2001 Big Ten Outdoor champion in the 110-meter hurdles, two-time All-American;
- Michael Bennett, 2000 Big Ten Indoor and outdoor sprint champion; two-time All-American;
Academic Honors
Nuttycombe has produced not only athletically talented squads, but academically gifted ones as well.
Badger athletes have been named Academic All-Americans 15 times, including Nathan Brown, Joe Detmer and Tim Nelson in 2007. Brown and Detmer were also honored in 2005 and 2006.
Since the inception of the Academic All–Big Ten team in 1986, Wisconsin track athletes have been awarded this academic honor 219 times. The Badgers placed at least 10 student-athletes on the Academic All–Big Ten teams each of the last 13 years.
Ed and his wife, Diane, reside in Madison and have two children, Carolyn (Mrs. David U’ren) and Kent, a senior at UW-Milwaukee, and one grandchild, Charlie U’ren.
Stats
NUTTYCOMBE'S RECORD AT WISCONSIN
Big Ten NCAA Big Ten NCAA NCAA
Year Indoors Indoors Outdoors Regional Outdoors
2007 1st 1st 1st 5th T7th
2006 1st 7th 1st 11th 8th
2005 1st 3rd 1st 4th T26th
2004 1st T10th 1st 6th T10th
2003 1st T44th 6th 14th T37th
2002 Cancelled T23rd 1st T21st
2001 1st T28th 1st DNS
2000 1st T47th 1st T30th
1999 6th T34th 3rd DNS
1998 2nd 23rd 2nd T19th
1997 1st 57th 1st T4th
1996 1st 12th 1st 6th
1995 1st 20th 1st T28th
1994 5th T44th 3rd T58th
1993 3rd DNS 4th T15th
1992 3rd DNQ 3rd T13th
1991 5th T51st 5th T64th
1990 5th DNS 4th 36th
1989 5th DNQ 3rd 21st
1988 5th DNS 4th 44th
1987 3rd DNS 3rd 50th
1986 1st DNS 1st DNS
1985 3rd T12th 2nd T14th
1984 3rd T19th 1st T19th
Note: 2003 was the first year for NCAA Regional competition
DNS - Qualified athletes but did not score
DNQ - Did not qualify any athletes
COACH OF THE YEAR HONORS: 28
2007 USTFCCCA National Indoor
Big Ten Indoor
Great Lakes Regional Indoor
Big Ten Outdoor
Great Lakes Regional Outdoor
2006 Big Ten Indoor
Great Lakes Regional Indoor
Big Ten Outdoor
2005 Big Ten Indoor
Big Ten Outdoor
2004 Big Ten Indoor
Big Ten Outdoor
2003 Big Ten Indoor
Great Lakes Regional Indoor
2002 Big Ten Outdoor
Great Lakes Regional Outdoor
2001 Big Ten Outdoor
Great Lakes Regional Indoor
2000 Big Ten Outdoor
Big Ten Indoor
1997 Great Lakes Regional
Big Ten Outdoor
Big Ten Indoor
1996 Big Ten Outdoor
Big Ten Indoor
1995 Great Lakes Regional
Big Ten Outdoor
Big Ten Indoor
COLLEGIATE RECORD HOLDERS: 1
Reggie Torian—Indoor 60-meter high hurdles
OLYMPIANS: 2
Pascal Dobert—2000, 3000-meter steeplechase
Maxwell Seales—1996, 1600-meter relay
NCAA CHAMPIONS: 7
1985 Distance Medley Relay
(John Easker, Robert Hackett, Pat Ames, Tim Hacker)
1993 Donovan Bergstrom—3000-meter steeplechase
1996 Jason Casiano—5000 meters
1997 Pascal Dobert—3000-meter steeplechase
James Dunkleberger—Decathlon
Reggie Torian—110-meter high hurdles
2005 Chris Solinsky—3000 meters
2006 Chris Solinsky—3000 meters
Chris Solinsky—5000 meters
2007 Chris Solinsky—Indoor 5000 meters
Chris Solinsky—Outdoor 5000 meters
ALL-AMERICA HONORS: 159
BIG TEN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS: 23
BIG TEN "TRIPLE CROWNS": 9
2006-07, 2005–06, 2004–05, 2003–04, 2000–01,
1999–00, 1996–97, 1995–96, 1994–95, 1985–86
BIG TEN ATHLETES OF THE YEAR: 8
BIG TEN ATHLETES OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP: 11
BIG TEN FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: 2
BIG TEN INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS: 148
ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS: 15
2007 Nathan Brown (First Team)
Joe Detmer (First Team)
Tim Nelson (Second Team)
2006 Nathan Brown (First Team)
Joe Detmer (Second Team)
2005 Nathan Brown (First Team)
Joe Detmer (Third Team)
2003 Josh Spiker (Second Team)
2002 Josh Spiker (Third Team)
2000 Jay Schoenfelder (Second Team)
1997 Matt VanderZanden (Second Team)
1993 Donovan Bergstrom (Third Team)
1992 Donovan Bergstrom (Third Team)
1990 Eric Stabb (Third Team)
1986 Scott Jenkins (Honorable Mention)
ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN HONORS: 219
References
- ↑ http://www.uwbadgers.com/sport_news/mtrk/bios/bio.html?staffid=458 Retrieved 2008-08-28.