Ogilvie Announces Staff Changes for 2011-12

DURHAM, N.C. - Duke Director of Track & Field Norm Ogilvie announced Thursday two staff changes for the 2011-12 cross country and track & field seasons.

Assistant Coach Jan Ogilvie has been promoted to a full-time jumps coach for the Blue Devils' track & field program, and Patrick Wales-Dinan has been added to the staff as an assistant women's cross country and men's and women's track & field coach.

"These two coaches will help round out one of the best coaching staffs in the ACC," Director of Track & Field Norm Ogilvie said. "The mixture of experience and youth that we will receive from Jan and Patrick are exciting additions to what is already a great staff."

Jan Ogilvie returns full-time to the track & field staff in the fall of 2011 after spending two years as the Duke Aquatics Director from 2009-11. During that time, Ogilvie served as the volunteer jumps coach for the Blue Devils. She was also previously the head women's cross country and track & field coach from 1997-2003 before transitioning to Director of the Brodie Gym from 2003-09.

Ogilvie will oversee the high jump, long jump and triple jump events for the men's and women's teams. In her time at Duke, she has coached at least one school record holder in each of those events.

In the spring of 2011, Ogilvie tutored one of the top freshman high jump duos in the country in Tanner Anderson and Michael Krone. Anderson won the IC4A Championship and set a program record with a leap of 7-4.25 while earning All-ACC honors during the indoor and outdoor seasons. He also qualified for the indoor NCAA Championships with a program record of 7-2.5. Krone notched an indoor best of 7-0.25 and earned All-East accolades outdoors.

Ogilvie previously coached a seven-time NCAA qualifier in the high jump in Debra Vento, whose 6-1.50 clearance is tops in school history. Vento went on to garner All-America status, as well as multiple ECAC and ACC Championships, and placed as high as third at the NCAA Championships. Ogilvie also guided horizontal jumper Jade Ellis to Duke records in the long and triple jumps, and was the mentor to Ifey Anoliefo, the program record holder in the women's long jump, and triple jump record holder Jodi Schlesinger.

Prior to her career at Duke, Ogilvie was the head women's coach at Boston University, where she won several New England Coach of the Year awards. She also previously served as an assistant coach at Indiana University, Syracuse University and Kansas State University.

"Jan brings a wealth of coaching experience over the past three decades and is one of the very best in her specialty areas," Norm Ogilvie said.

In addition, Patrick Wales-Dinan has been hired as an assistant coach for the 2011-12 seasons. Wales-Dinan will assist with the women's cross country program under the direction of head coach Kevin Jermyn, as well as with the men's and women's teams on the track.

"Patrick reminds me of a younger Kevin Jermyn," Ogilvie said. "He has the ambition, passion and knowledge to be a successful Div. I coach. Some Div. I experience will him make an even more valuable asset to our program."

Wales-Dinan comes to Duke from Williams College, where he was an assistant for the Ephs' cross country teams and the distance coach for the women's track & field program from 2009-11.

At Williams, Wales-Dinan tutored four All-Americans and one NCAA Div. III national champion in Jennifer Gossels, who won titles in both the 5,000m and 10,000m events in the spring of 2011. Last spring also saw him become the first coach in NCAA Div. III history to oversee four NCAA Championship qualifiers in the women's 10,000m.

Wales-Dinan also helped to guide the Ephs' cross country teams to consecutive NCAA Div. III Championship appearances, including a runner-up finish for the men's squad in the fall of 2009.

A native of Duxbury, Vt., Wales-Dinan was a two-time All-New England runner and state champion in the 800m at Bates College. He was also a member of Bates' 2004 NCAA Div. III Cross Country Championship-qualifying team.

After graduating from Bates in 2005, Wales-Dinan served as the head coach of the cross country and track & field teams at Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine from 2005-08. He then became the assistant coach for women's cross country and track & field at the University of Southern Maine from 2008-09, where he helped the Huskies win their ninth-consecutive LEC and Alliance League titles. Wales-Dinan also served as the meet director for the 2008 Maine State Cross Country Championships.

Wales-Dinan is certified USATF Level II: Endurance Events.

"I am very excited to have Coach Wales-Dinan joining our program," said women's cross country head coach Kevin Jermyn. "He was very successful at Williams developing All-America level runners and top students in the classroom. He is going to fit in wonderfully at Duke. Our team is going to befit greatly from his expertise and enthusiasm."

The Blue Devil cross country teams kick off the 2011 season on Thurs., Sept. 1 at the N.C. Central Dual in Durham.

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