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Erick Camodeca
Erick Camodeca

Bio

  • 2023-24 marks his third season as the cross country head coach and will be
    in his fifth season as the track and field head coach
  • Has coached five Landmark Conference champions (three indoor, two outdoor)
  • Has coached five Landmark Second Team performers (four indoor, one 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.
  • 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