 Cerritos College
Director of Track and Field
Doug Wells
has been named the 2009 California Community College
Cross Country & Track Coaches Association (5CTCA)
Men's Track and Field Coach of the Year. Wells
helped lead the Falcons to a share of second place
finish at the state championships this past season.
Along with his duties with the men's team, he helped
lead the women's team to their second state title in
a row and third in four years, while both won the
South Coast Conference championship.
Wells, who will be
starting his 20th season as the Falcons director,
will be honored at the Annual 5CTCA meeting, which
will be held on December 12, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV.
Over the years,
Wells has been honored to serve as a coach at the
national level and as recently as 2006, he was chosen
as the Head Manager for the U.S. National Track and
Field Team and guided them at the NACAC Under-23
Team, which was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic. Wells was also selected by a special staff
selection meeting of the International Competition
Committee at the USA Track and Field National
Convention.
Prior to coming to
Cerritos, Wells spent 10 years at Taft College
and guided those teams to a state championship and
seven conference titles, while Wells was named the
California Coach of the Year twice. At Cerritos, he
was named the California Coaches Association Coach
of the Year for the third time in his career, while
he was awarded the Coach of the Year honor by the
California Track and Running News five times.
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