Chris Bostwick Position: Assistant Coach - Jumps/Mulit-Events Experience: Second Season

Chris Bostwick enters his second season with the Spartan track and field program, working with the horizontal and vertical jumps and also serving as the coordinator for the multi-events. Prior to his arrival in 2006, Bostwick served as an assistant coach for the women's track and field and cross country programs at Miami (OH) for four seasons (2002-06).

In his first season with the Spartans, Bostwick mentored two national qualifiers, a Big Ten Champion, and three NCAA regional qualifiers. His top athlete was Jon Allen, who was an indoor national qualifier and an outdoor national finalist in the triple jump. The Big Ten outdoor runner-up in the triple jump, Allen reset both the school's indoor and outdoor triple jump marks during his sophomore campaign. Allen moved the indoor school record to 52-2 with his performance at Notre Dame's Meyo Invitational, and he added a school-record leap of 52-1 at Penn State during the Big Ten Outdoor Championships.

Pole vaulter Mark Langlois and women's multi-event athlete Anna Coster also excelled under Bostwick's tutelage during the 2006-07 season. As a senior, Langlois won the indoor conference pole vault title, becoming only the third Spartan in program history to win a Big Ten indoor title in the event. He also provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships with his personal-best clearance of 17-1 1/2. On the women's side, Coster broke the pentathlon school record at the Big Ten Indoor Championships (3,806) while provisionally qualifying for the national meet, and she followed by breaking Michigan State's heptathlon school record (5,012) at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships.

Before joining the Michigan State staff, Bostwick spent four seasons as Miami's sprints, jumps and pole vault coach. Bostwick's athletes made four NCAA appearances, won two Mid-East regional titles, took home seven Mid-American Conference titles and set 11 school records, including seven of the eight Miami benchmarks in the jumps. During the 2006 season alone, Bostwick's athletes set school records in the pole vault (indoor and outdoor), long jump (indoor and outdoor), high jump (indoor) and 60 meters (indoor). He also tutored NCAA provisional qualifiers in five events.

Bostwick's top two pupils at Miami were Lashonda Davis and Sarah Landau, each two-time NCAA qualifiers. Davis won four MAC titles under Bostwick's guidance, including the 2006 outdoor long jump crown with a school-record leap of 21-0. With her jump, she became only the second athlete in conference history to hit the 21-foot mark in the long jump. Landau, meanwhile, swept the indoor and outdoor conference pole vault titles in 2006, won her second straight Mid-East Regional pole vault title and finished 11th at the NCAA Championships. In two seasons working with Bostwick, Landau moved the Miami indoor vault record from 12-0 to 13-5 and upped the outdoor standard from 12-3 to 13-7 3/4. Also winning a MAC title under Bostwick in the 2006 season was Kristina Bolterstein, who took the indoor high jump crown with a school-record clearance of 5-10.

During the 2005 track and field season, Davis reset the indoor (20-3 3/4) and outdoor (20-10 1/2) long jump records, won MAC silver medals in both and qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships and the USATF Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Davis also excelled as a sprinter, winning MAC titles in the 60 meters indoors and the 100 meters outdoors. Landau joined Davis as an NCAA qualifier in the 2005 season, as she broke the Miami indoor (12-11 1/2) and outdoor (13-7 3/4) pole vault records and won the regional pole vault title. Landau went on to finish 11th at the national meet.

In his first two seasons at Miami, Bostwick's athletes saw unprecedented results. During the 2004 season, Davis earned an at-large bid to the national meet as a freshman, while school records fell in both the 4x100 and 4x400 meter relays. The RedHawks' 400-meter relay team also earned a MAC gold and a bid to the NCAA MidEast Regional. In Bostwick's first season, school records fell in three different events, including the triple jump.

Before joining the RedHawks' staff in 2003, Bostwick spent two years at Binghamton University (N.Y.) as assistant men's and women's track coach. In addition to his recruiting duties, Bostwick coached the sprinters, vertical jumps and horizontal jumps, along with the multi-event competitors. Over his final two years, Bostwick produced six conference champions, 18 all-conference athletes and five all-east selections.

Bostwick is a Level III-certified track and field coach, which is the highest certification available from USA Track and Field. He has also earned a Level II certification in the sprints, hurdles, relays, and jumps. In addition, Bostwick serves as an Instructor in USATF's coaching education program. He has been a featured speaker at numerous camps and clinics throughout the country, covering the sprints and jumps.

While an undergraduate at Cortland State (N.Y.), Bostwick competed in the sprinting and jumping events, earning all-conference honors 10 times. He also was chosen to serve as team captain as a senior.

Bostwick graduated from Cortland State, where he served as a graduate assistant coach under head coach Dr. Jack Daniels. In that time, he coached 21 all-conference athletes and five all-Americans.

A member of the USA Track and Field (USATF) and the US Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), Bostwick maintains several coaching certifications.