Track & Field
- Title:
- Assistant Cross Country/Track & Field Coach
Jackie Sgambati is entering her first season as assistant coach for the Chanticleers. Previously, Scagmati was the head coach of the Elon University women[apos]s cross country team for the past eight seasons.
Sgambati led the women[apos]s squad to a fourth-place finish out of the 11 teams in the Southern Conference during the 2006 campaign. For the second year in a row, an Elon runner earned Freshman of the Year accolades as Caitlin Beeler placed ninth at the league meet with a time of 17:59.47, setting a school record. Beeler became just the second Elon cross country runner to earn all-conference honors at the Division I level and the first Phoenix women[apos]s cross country runner to break 18:00.0.
In 2005, Sgambati[apos]s women[apos]s team placed fifth in the Southern Conference as Alana Black ran to an eighth-place finish at the league championship, earning all-conference accolades while setting a then-school record with a time of 18:40.18. Sgambati also guided Anna Mae Flynn to Southern Conference Freshman of the Year honors in 2005. Flynn placed 11th at the league meet with a time of 18:45.87. John Tumbleston, a two-time Academic All-American, also tied the school record on the men[apos]s side in 2005 with a time of 25:47.13. The men[apos]s team placed seventh at the conference championship.
An avid marathon runner herself, Sgambati served as former coach Bill Morningstar[apos]s assistant for the Elon cross country teams before taking over as head coach. She was also a marathon coach for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for three years.
A native of Mechanicville, N.Y., Sgambati graduated from Elon in 1998 and earned a bachelor of science degree in sports medicine with a concentration in exercise science while earning four varsity letters in cross country.
Sgambati earned her master[apos]s in nutrition from East Carolina in 2006. She married Joe Winslow in July of 2007.
