CROSS COUNTRY COACHING STAFF
Head Boys Coach Dave Frank
Coach Frank is in his 7th year at Central Catholic after eleven years teaching math and coaching at Saint Francis HS in Mountain View, CA. At St. Francis, he worked with many CCS Section Champions and the 1998 California State Division III XC Champions. At Central Catholic, he worked under Alberto Salazar for five years before becoming the head coach in his 6th season in 2005. The 2005 team won the Oregon State 4A Title with the lowest score in meet history (23 points).
Dave Frank graduated from Gladstone HS, where he won five individual State Titles in track and cross country. Dave moved on to a strong collegiate and Olympic caliber running career:
- Former school record holder for the 3000m steeplechase
(8:38) at Stanford University
- Three time Olympic Trials qualifier in the steeplechase and marathon (2:18)
- Team captain of the 1990 Hood to Coast Champions, Black Flag
Head Girls Coach Sandy Dickerson
Coming Soon!
Assistant Boys Coach Mike Bergmann
MIke is in his 2nd year as a Central Catholic coach, although he has made a huge contribution to the program as a CYO coach over the past years; many of the current Ram stars got their start with Mike's CYO Track Club - Wiltshire, Bergmann, Morgan, Beltramo, Klotz - and were introduced to CC by Coach Bergmann. As an athlete Mike was a 2nd team All-State runner and competed at the University of Arizona . He has worked for NIKE for 23 years and lives in SW Portland with his wife Elaine and four children, Taylor, Meeghan, Erin, and Peter.
Assistant Girls Coach Kate Bennett
Kate has loved the sport of cross country since she got her first taste as a competitor in the 4th grade. She is originally from Seattle, WA where she attended Bishop Blanchet High School -- four seasons of track; two seasons x-country converted soccer player. After high school she attended the University of Portland and upon graduation began coaching at Bishop Blanchet in Seattle and prior to moving to St. Bonventure in Ventura, CA. Kate and her husband and were excited to return to the Northwest last year. Kate is in her first year at Central Catholic teaching Junior and Freshman English. In her free time she enjoys walking her black lab, Hank, with my husband.
Assistant Girls Coach Emily Ferguson
Emily ran CYO track at All Saints School, then ran both cross country and
track at Central Catholic. Sandy Dickerson, Dave Frank and Alberto Salazar
were some of her coaches while running as a Ram. She went on to run all
four years at Seattle University, and was the women's team captain for cross
country, indoor and outdoor track her senior and junior years. In college, she ran the 800m and 1500m races and was all-conference in the 800m in
indoor and outdoor track. She graduated from Seattle University in 2005.
Emily currently teaches pre-school at St. Agatha Catholic School and plans
on going for her masters in teaching next year. She just ran her first
marathon and qualified for the Boston Marathon, which she plans to run in
April 2007.
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