Ray Hoffman enters his 11th season with the Kutztown University track and field and cross country programs. He has served the last 10 years as head cross country coach, and enters his third year as head coach of track and field. He served as assistant track and field coach his first eight seasons at KU.

In addition to his duties as head cross country coach, Hoffman will work closely with the athletes in the distance, steeplechase, long and short sprints on the track.

While at KU, Hoffman has played a vital role in the school’s most successful era in cross country and track and field. Kutztown’s men’s team won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championship three times (2000, 2001, 2002) and finished as runners-up twice (1999, 2005). The KU women’s outdoor team has won two PSAC crowns (2000, 2005) and finished as runners-up twice (2002, 2007). Indoors, the Golden Bear women won three-straight PSAC titles (2004, 2005, 2006). In 2006, the women’s cross country team won the NCAA East Regional title, while the team also has a runner-up finish (2004) and two PSAC runner-up places (2001, 2006) to its credit.

On the track, his athletes have set school records in 20 events during the indoor and outdoor track and field seasons. He has coached 37 PSAC Champions and 125 All-PSAC performers. Additionally, Hoffman was named the 2005 PSAC Women’s Indoor Track and Field Co-Coach of the Year. Hoffman guided nine athletes to Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship titles (1998-2002).

On the national level, he has had 37 NCAA provisional qualifiers and three All-America performers — Desiree Bower, steeplechase, 2007; Cody Hartzler, high jump, 2008; and Jim Dart, shot put, 2008.

In cross country, Hoffman has established KU’s program as one of the best in the region. The women’s team has earned five trips to the NCAA Championship, including a best-ever 14th-place finish in 2006 after winning its first-ever NCAA East Regional title. He is a two-time PSAC Women’s Coach of the Year (2000, 2006) and the KU Women’s Athletics Coach of the Year (2000-01, 2001-02).

In 10 cross country seasons, Hoffman’s runners have earned one PSAC individual title, 21 All-PSAC honors, one PSAC Runner of the Year, three PSAC Rookies of the Year, 19 All-Region awards, one All-America honor, nine All-Academic Team awards, 27 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team individual awards, and one Academic All-America of the Year.

Hoffman was an assistant women’s cross country and track and field coach at Clemson (1997-98). He helped guide the Tiger track and field team to second-place finishes at the indoor and outdoor Atlantic Coast Conference Championships. In addition, Hoffman coached two junior national qualifiers in the 3,000 and 5,000, guided his 4x1,500 relay team to the seventh-fastest time in the nation, and broke school records in the 4x800 and 4x1,500 relays.

Prior to Clemson, Hoffman was assistant track and field and women’s cross country coach at East Stroudsburg. He was named 1995 ECAC Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year. He guided the Warriors to two top-three finishes at the ECAC Cross Country Championships, and a consistent top-25 ranking in the country. Achievements by his athletes included a four-time All-American in cross country and track and an eight-time national qualifier. Hoffman’s runners captured 18 ECAC and three PSAC titles in track & field, while his track runners set 10 school records and garnered 22 All-PSAC and 27 All-ECAC honors. He also coached the 1996 PSAC and ECAC individual cross country champion, and the top NCAA Division II American miler in 1997.

A 1994 graduate of East Stroudsburg University, Hoffman captained the Warriors’ cross country team as a senior and was a three-time All-ECAC performer in the 3,000 and distance medley relay. He also was an All-PSAC performer in the steeplechase.

Keith White enters his third season as track and field assistant coach at Kutztown. White will coach the Golden Bears’ hurdles, jumps and multi-events.

White came to Kutztown after coaching the track & field and cross country teams at Millersville University from 1981-2005. While at Millersville, White’s team won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) women’s title four times. His athletes earned 27 All-America honors and won 66 PSAC individual championships.

White received his bachelors degree in education from Millersville in 1980.

Tony Dodds is in his second season on the KU coaching staff. He coaches the pole vaulters. Dodds previously coached at Exeter and Wilson-West Lawn high schools, and vaulted for Penn State while in college.
 

Paul Shump joins the coaching staff this season as a coach for the throwers. Shump is a graduate of King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, where he majored in psychology. Shump began his coaching career at Penncrest High School where his throwers earned five medals at PIAA meets. That included three gold medals in shot put. A native of Media, he moved from Penncrest to Manchester College in 2006, where he coached for two years.

Floyd Maine joins KU’s coaching staff this season as coach of the distance teams. He won the 5K and the 10K at the Jamaican Olympic Trials.