David Warth
Cross Country/Track and Field - Head Coach
Phone: 585-475-6666
Email:
djwatl@rit.edu
Dave Warth enters his 12th year as the head coach of the men’s cross country and men’s and women’s track and field programs at RIT. Both programs are among the best in the northeast region.
Last season, Mike Hardbarger earned indoor All-American honors in the mile. Hardbarger also qualified for the 2009 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships, along with Matt Joseph, and Matt Marion. In 2008, Stephen Burns became RIT’s second individual national champion, as he won the javelin throw at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships. Hardbarger also took home All-American honors in the 1,500-meters, finishing fifth. Warth also coached LaKeisha Perez, who was named the 2008 RIT Senior Female Athlete of the Year and was also a 2008 Indoor Track and Field NCAA Participant. Several of Warth’s athletes earned Academic All-American honors as well. In all, nine different men’s records and four women’s track and field records were shattered last season.
In 2006-07, Warth led RIT to one of its most successful seasons ever, as the men’s cross country squad made the NCAA Championships for the first time since 1996. On the women’s side, Trisha Sliker and Adrienne Gagnier made the NCAA’s. Warth led both the women’s indoor and outdoor teams to the Empire 8 and New York State Championships—a first for both programs. The men won both the Empire 8 Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships and Warth was named the Empire 8 Coach of the Year in all four sports.
In 2005-06, Warth coached two All-Americans (Allison Griggs, hammer throw; Stephen Burns, javelin) and two other runners (Jimmy Sorel, hurdles and Danielle Simmons, sprints) who qualified for the NCAA Championships.
In 2004-05, Warth was recognized by the U.S. Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association as Atlantic Region Indoor Track Women’s Coach of the Year.
Warth brings a strong background in track and field to the Tigers program. The 1989 graduate of the University of Notre Dame ran cross country and track during all four years for the Irish. His long-standing 1,000-meter indoor school record was finally broken in 2006.
Warth served as the head track and field coach at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester (1990-96) and continued to coach indoor track (1996-98). During that span, his teams won two Section V indoor titles and three outdoor titles.
A 1985 McQuaid graduate, Warth is the holder of five indoor track records and one outdoor track record. He was a member of the 1984 New York State Class A champion Knights.
Warth lives in Rochester with his wife, Mary Boutote, daughter, Katherine and son, Raymond.
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