SUWANEE, Ga. - After exclusive voting by the
conference’s men’s and women’s outdoor track
& field coaches, the Rhodes College track & field coaching
staff – led by Robert Shankman – has been named the
2010 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference men’s and
women’s Staffs of the Year.
Shankman and his two assistants, Isabel Alexander and Jordan
Horwitz, led the Lynx to the first men’s and women’s
title sweep since Trinity University in 2007.
Shankman was selected as men’s track and
field Coach-of-the-Year for the fifth time in his during his tenure
at the helm of the Lynx’s track and field program. Behind
three individual titles and a team victory in the 4x100 relay,
Rhodes’ men won their first track and field title and since
1996, at last month’s SCAC championship meet at Hendrix.
Shankman’s men set one SCAC championship meet record over the
course of the weekend. As a program, Rhodes has won five
men’s track and field titles in the SCAC era.
He was also named the league’s women’s track and field
Coach-of-the-Year after leading the Lynx to their third consecutive
women’s track and field title. The Rhodes women won eight
individual events and both the 4x100 and 4x400 relays in earning a
39-point win over DePauw. The 39 point margin of winning was the
largest since 2006 (81). This marks the sixth time Shankman has won
coach of the year honors on the women’s side of the sport
– having been previously honored in the team’s other
championship years of 1996, 1998, 2002, 2008 and 2009. He has also
been the men’s COTY five times (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and
2010) – giving him 11 total track and field COTY honors. The
11 COTY honors are the most all-time track and field COTY awards in
league history.
In announcements made earlier, Tim Scannell of
Trinity University was named the SCAC baseball Coach-of-the-Year
and Roland Rodriguez of Millsaps College and
Angela Froboese of Southwestern University were
selected SCAC softball Co-Coaches-of-the-Year. In tennis,
DePauw’s Scott Riggle was voted the
league’s Women’s Coach-of-the-Year while Trinity
University’s Russell McMindes was voted
Men’s COTY.