
Erick Camodeca
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- Title:
- Head Coach
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- Phone:
- 410-337-6462
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- Email:
- erick.camodeca@goucher.edu
Bio
- 2024-25 marks his fourth season as the cross country head coach and will be
in his sixth season as the track and field head coach - Has coached five Landmark Conference champions (four indoor, three outdoor)
- Has coached five Landmark Second Team and Honorable Mention performers (nine indoor, five outdoor)
- Coached back-to-back Landmark women's Indoor Rookies of the Year
(Carter Hinton-Ayodele, 2022, Tanise Thornton-Fillyaw, 2023) - Hinton-Ayodele was the 2022 indoor Field Performer of the Meet
- Hinton-Ayodele is a three-time NCAA Championship qualifier in the triple jump,
while Thornton-Fillyaw qualified in the women's 800 in both indoor and outdoor
in 2023 and 2024. - Thornton-Fillyaw finished fifth in the indoor 800 and third in the outdoor 800 at nationals
in 2024. - The Gopher women's team has been ranked as high as No. 7 in the Mid-Atlantic
Region.
- Served as the Cross Country/Track and Field Assistant Head Coach
at Eastern Mennonite in 2019-20 - Helped two athletes qualify for the NCAA Division III National Championships
for the outdoor season and one for the indoor at Eastern Mennonite - Served as the head coach at Stevenson for five seasons
- Named the 2018 MAC Coach of the Year and the Mid-East Region Head Coach
of the Year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association - Helped Stevenson its first conference titles at the 2019 MAC indoor and
outdoor championships - Led Stevenson to the 2019 indoor title at the Eastern College Athletic Conference
- Mentored 15 national qualifiers, four All-America athletes and numerous regional
and conference of the year recipients at Stevenson - Helped athletes break 96 of the 106 indoor and outdoor record for both the men’s
and women’s track and field teams at Stevenson - Served as an assistant coach at NCAA Division I Loyola for the 2013-14 season
- Served as the head coach of the men’s track and field team for six years and
the women’s track and field team for three years at York - Coached 50 all-conference selections in the indoor and outdoor season including
five Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) Athlete of the Year selections and
five CAC Rookie of the Year honorees - Helped six athletes qualify for nationals and three earned All-America status at York
- Aided his athletes to break 35 men’s record and 27 women records at York
- Named the CAC Coach of the Year in 2010 and 2011
- Helped York to the 2011 CAC Men’s Track and Field Outdoor title, its first since 1992
- Guided York women to a second-place finish in 2011 for its highest finish in
program history - Served as the cross country head coach at York from 2010-12
- Helped the men’s cross country team at York to back-to-back titles including
the program’s first ever crown in 2011 - Named the CAC Coach of the Year twice
- Aided three CAC Athlete of the Year selections, three Rookie of the Year honorees,
three individual champions, two NCAA qualifiers and one All-American
as the cross country coach at York - Started his coaching career as an assistant coach under the legendary
head coach John Caslin at Goucher for two seasons for both cross country
and track and field - Helped the team set four school records in track and field, sent one women's
cross country runner to nationals (J. Fraley Coles) and had one All-CAC
second team selection
- Graduated from Goucher in 2006
- Earned All-CAC first team honors for the 400-meter relay team with a
school record time in 2007 (the record was then broken while he was
serving as an assistant coach at his alma mater) - Helped the 4x200-meter relay and the medley relay teams set school
record for the outdoor and indoor seasons - Scored in 18 of the 21 CAC championship events he competed
- Served as a track and field team captain and also played on the
men’s soccer team - Served as the vice president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee