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Women's Track
Coaching: Laurie Feit-Melnick enters her 16th season as head coach of the Rhode Island women's cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field programs in 2007-08. Feit-Melnick boasts an impressive track & field resume, most recently adding the 2005 Words Unlimited Women's Sports Coach of the Year honor to her list of accolades. Feit-Melnick has led the Rams to four-straight Atlantic 10 Indoor Track & Field Championships and has been named A-10 Coach of the Year nine times, six for indoor track (1996, '99, '00, '01, '02, '04), twice for outdoor track ('03, '04) and once for cross country (1998). The Rams have claimed five A-10 indoor titles (2000, '01, '02, '04, '05) and four league outdoor titles ('02, '03, '04, '05) during her tenure. The Massapequa Park, N.Y. native also was honored as the University of Rhode Island Women's Coach of the Year for the past four-consecutive years (1999-2002). Feit-Melnick has had 71 Atlantic 10 Champions, two conference record-holders and have sent seven athletes to national competitions. Her cross country teams have included 16 All-Conference athletes and finished second in the conference four times (1992, '99, '01 and '02). She has coached 147 all-conference athletes, 55 academic all-conference selections, 11 A-10 Rookies of the Year and three Atlantic 10 Most Outstanding Performers. Feit-Melnick served as USA Junior team leader at the 1998 World Cross Country Championships in Marrakesh, Morroco. She also was appointed to the 2001 World University Games Coaching Staff for the World University Games in Beijing, China in 2001. Feit-Melnick received a bachelor's degree from Rutgers in 1988, where she was a four-year member of the Scarlet Knight cross country, indoor and outdoor track teams. She was named MVP of the Rutgers cross-country team as a senior. A middle distance runner on the track team, she also was a member of the All-East two-mile relay team. After spending one season as an assistant cross-country coach at Rutgers, Feit-Melnick joined the coaching staff at Miami (Ohio), where she worked from 1989-92. She took over the cross country and track and field head coaching duties on an interim basis during the 1990-91 seasons. Feit-Melnick received a master's degree in exercise science from Miami (Ohio) in 1992. She is a USA Track & Field certified Level I and II coach as well as a member of the U.S. Women's Track & Field Association and the Women's Intercollegiate Cross Country Coaches Association. She was the New England Women's Intercollegiate Cross Country/Track & Field secretary from 1993-94 before taking on the role of commissioner from 1994-99. She has served as a seeding advisor and secretary/treasurer of the ECAC. She also coached the USA Junior Team for the 1998 World Cross Country Championships in Marrakech, Morocco, after serving on the NCAA Protest Table for the 1995-97 Outdoor Championships. She is married to John Melnick, an assistant track & field coach with the Rams. The couple resides in Narragansett with their two children, Mollie Joy and Adam John.
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Friday, May 16
Women's Trackat ECAC Championship Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) 10:00 AM
Saturday, May 17
Women's Trackat ECAC Championship Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) 10:00 AM
Sunday, May 18
Women's Trackat ECAC Championship Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) 10:00 AM
Friday, May 30
Women's Trackat NCAA East Regional Championship Florida State University (Tallahassee, Fla.) 11:00 AM
Saturday, May 31
Women's Trackat NCAA East Regional Championship Florida State University (Tallahassee, Fla.) 11:00 AM
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