Cross Country Coaching Staff
Head Coach Greg Cooper
Greg
Cooper begins his third season as the men’s and women’s cross country and
track and field head coach.
Last year, Coach Cooper guided the men’s cross country team to an AMCC championship while the women’s team would placed third. Behrend would also have five men and three women earn all-conference as Cooper was named the AMCC Coach of the Year for the second time.
In his first season as head cross country coach, Cooper was named AMCC Coach of the Year for both men’s and women’s cross country. For the first time ever, both the men’s and women’s teams captured the AMCC Championships in the same season. Other highlights of the 2007 season included the selection of thirteen Behrend runners to the AMCC all-conference team, while the women’s cross country team was named a national all-academic team by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Cooper previously served under his father, Dave Cooper, as assistant coach of the track and field team for five years and the cross country team for two years. As an assistant coach Cooper specialized in the 400 and 800 meter sprints as well as the hurdles. He played an integral role in coaching Isiah Meek to national qualifying times in both the indoor and outdoor hurdles.
Cooper was a cross country and track standout at Union City High School where he was a PIAA champion in track & field (4 x 800 meter relay) and captain of Union City’s 1996 PIAA State Champion cross country team. Cooper continued his success at Behrend, where he set records in the 400 and 800 meters as well as three relay records.
Cooper graduated from the Behrend MBA program in May of 2006. In addition to coaching Cooper also instructs in the health and physical education department.
E-mail Coach Greg Cooper: gdc120@psu.edu
Assistant Coach Phil Stuczynski
Phil Stuczynski enters his first season as an assistant coach for the cross country and track and field programs at Penn State Behrend.
Stuczynski was selected as the track program's leadership and scholarship award winner for three straight seasons. The All Mason-Dixon Conference honoree also earned All-ECAC honors four straight seasons in running events. Stuczynski was a school record holder and part of an NCAA provisional qualifying 4 x 100m relay team in 2008.
Stuczynski graduated in May with a degree from Behrend in finance and is working towards completing an MBA.
E-mail Coach Phil Stuczynski: prs5007@psu.edu