Robert Whitten Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 1st year Education: B.S., New Hampshire, 2004 M.S, New Hampshire, 2006

Rob Whitten begins his first season as assistant coach with the University of Rhode Island men's cross country and track and field.

In this role, Whitten will work with URI's jumpers and multi-event athletes. He has his USA Track & Field level II certification in jumps.

Prior to coming to Kingston, Whitten served as an assistant track & field coach at the University of Hartford for the past two years.

In 2008, Whitten coached UH's first two America East individual champions and first-ever NCAA regional qualifier. During his two-year tenure, 48 men's and women's indoor and outdoors school records were broken.

Prior to Hartford, he spent two years as a graduate assistant coach at New Hampshire, assisting with the jumps and multi-event athletes. He was part of the 2006 America East Outdoor Track & Field Coaching Staff of the Year.

Whitten graduated from New Hampshire in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. While with the Wildcats, he was a five-time all-conference and two-time All-New England performer in the pole vault and multi-events. In 2006, he received his master's degree in kinesiology from New Hampshire. He was a high school New England champion in the pole vault and is the former state of Maine indoor and outdoor pole vault record holder.

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HEAD COACH: JOHN COPELAND

• 401-874-2163

• uritrack@mail.uri.edu

ASST. COACH: KYLE POLAND

• 401-874-2163

• poland.kyle@gmail.com

ASST. COACH ROBERT WHITTEN

• 401-874-5377

• rwhitten@mail.uri.edu

CROSS COUNTRY LINKS

• Atlantic 10 Cross Country

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