Sherman Hart Head Coach First season at NU: 1988-89 Alma Mater: Northeastern '74

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Head coach Sherman Hart enters his 20th season at Northeastern University and is coming off a landmark campaign a year ago. The Northeastern women’s track & field team became the first Northeastern team to win a Colonial Athletic Association Championship, winning the outdoor title on April 21, 2007, and Hart was named CAA Coach of the Year. The Huskies had two huge performances in the title meet, as Tramaine Shaw was named Co-Track Athlete of the Year and Zara Northover was named Field Athlete of the Year. At the same time, the men’s track & field team placed fourth at the highly competitive CAA Championship. Nate Hunter led the team with wins in the shot put and discus. Hart has led the women’s team since the 1988-89 and transformed the team into a perennial America East and New England power. The program was ranked 20th in New England when he arrived on the scene, and three years later the team won its first America East title. In America East indoor meets from 1990-2005, the women’s team won indoor titles in 1993, ’94, ’95, ’96, ’98, 2003, ’04 and ’05. In outdoor championships from 1989-2005, NU’s women’s track & field team was champion in 1991, ’92, ’94, ’95, ’96, ’97, ’98, ’99, 2002, ’03, ’04 and ’05. In addition to the conference titles, the team has been a force on the New England stage, capturing indoor championships in 1996, ’97, ’99 and 2003, while taking outdoor titles in 1996 and ’99. Hart was named America East Coach of the Year a total of 11 times, five indoors and six outdoors. In 2002, the award was changed to “Coaching Staff of the Year” and his staff swept both the indoor and outdoor awards in 2003, ’04 and ’05. Northeastern competed in its first CAA Championship in 2006, with the women’s team placing second in its first title meet. Just a year later the Huskies won the CAA title, defeating runner-up and six-time defending champ William & Mary by eight points. Hart was named women’s District I Div. I Coach of the Year for the fourth time during the indoor 2002-03 season. He was also named District I Div. I indoor and outdoor Coach of the Year from 1994-97. Under Hart, Husky athletes have been named All-America 10 times, All-East over 100 times and have won countless conference and New England titles. Northeastern’s men’s program has continually improved under Hart since he became its leader during the 1998-99 season. During the 2000 indoor season, just a year after Hart started coaching the men, the team won its first America East Championship since 1996. He added indoor and outdoor conference titles in 2001 and won both again in 2002. After a run of second and third-place finishes, Hart got his team back to the top with a win at the 2004 America East outdoor title meet and the team continued its success by defeating favorite Albany for the 2005 indoor title. Hart won conference Coach of the Year honors for indoor track in 2000 and 2001 and his staff won “Coaching Staff of the Year” honors in 2002, ’04 and ’05. The team won the New England Outdoor Championship in 2002. Northeastern began competing in the highly-competitive Colonial Athletic Association in 2006 and has placed fourth in each of the championships it has competed in. Northeastern has been a regional track & field power for decades but in the past several seasons, the Huskies have broken new ground at the national level. Between its men’s and women’s programs, Northeastern has had athletes qualify for the NCAA Championship in each of the last five years. Most recently, Zara Northover has competed on the national level. As a senior in 2007, Northover placed 10th in the shot put at the NCAA Championship. It was her fifth appearance at the national championship and the top finish of her career. Just weeks earlier, she set a Northeastern and ECAC Championship record with her winning throw of 55’0.75 at the Eastern title meet. In 2006, men’s thrower Derek Anderson competed in both the indoor and outdoor NCAA Championships, placing eighth in the shot put to earn All-America status and 16th in the discus outdoors. In 2004-05, pole vaulter Laura Chmielewski and 400-meter runner Ahndraea Allen earned All-America honors indoors and outdoors, respectively Before he came to Northeastern, Hart coached at UMass Boston and turned the program into a powerhouse on the national scene. The Beacons won three NCAA Div. III titles, were national runners-up four times and ECAC champions seven times. From 1985-88, Hart’s UMass Boston teams competed at the New England Championship against Div. I, II and III competition and never finished lower than third. He coached 48 Div. III All-Americans and earned NCAA Div. III National Coach of the Year four times while at UMass Boston. Hart was inducted to the UMass Boston Hall of Fame in 2006. All three of his NCAA champion teams have been inducted to the UMass Boston Hall of Fame as well as six of his former athletes. Besides his work at the collegiate level, Hart founded the Boston International Track Club while he was an NU student in 1974 and has been director ever since. It was founded as a way for local youths to get involved in athletics, but amateur athletes, such as former Husky Jordine Kimbrel, also compete for the club. Hart has extensive experience as a social worker in the Boston area. He lettered in football at NU, graduating in 1974 with a degree in Economics and Humanities. He attended Archbishop Carroll High in Washington D.C., graduating in 1969. He was a member of the school’s record-setting mile relay team and served as a team captain.