Associate Head Coach Ted Gibbons
Associate head coach Ted
Gibbons enters his 16th season with Connecticut’s men’s track and field program.
He specializes as the field events coach for the Huskies. Gibbons has produced
three All-Americans at UConn in Mike Deibler, Ray Wilks and Steve Santoli. Wilks
earned the honor in the shot put in 1999, while Santoli received All-American
status in the weight throw in 1998. Deibler earned the honor in 2003 in the
high jump.
A member of the
Connecticut staff since the 1992-93 season, Gibbons was elevated to associate
head coach of the program in January of 1996.
Prior to joining Greg
Roy’s staff at UConn, Gibbons served as coordinator of the men’s and women’s
track and field programs and head men’s track and field coach at Washington
University in St. Louis, MO from 1985-92. While at Washington, Gibbons led his
men’s track and field team to eight consecutive indoor and outdoor University
Athletic Association titles. Gibbons also served as assistant football coach
for the defensive line unit at Washington. Twelve of Gibbons’ track and field
student-athletes qualified for NCAA Division III National Championships during
his tenure at Washington University.
Prior to his Washington
position, Gibbons was head field events coach from 1982-83 and freshman football
coach from 1976-1982 at Brown University.
Gibbons, a Newport, R.I.
native, is a 1967 graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo where
he was selected honorable mention All-America in football and All-Small College
track and field in Western New York. Gibbons is a member of his alma mater’s
Hall of Fame.
Coach
Gibbons lives in Newport, R.I. He is married to Linda Forsberg. He also
has four children; Tisa,
Tammi, Eugenia and Ted. |
