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INDIANAPOLIS — Gill Athletics and USA Track &
Field (USATF) will honor one boys’ and one girls’ high school track
& field team coach with the inaugural Gill Athletics National High
School Track & Field Coach of the Year Award. Pete Boudreaux, boys’
coach of Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, La, and James Holdren Jr.,
girls’ coach of Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School in Richmond, VA.,
will be recognized at the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 26 during
the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, IA in
front of a 14,000 Drake Stadium crowd. Both award recipients’ schools
will receive $5,000 worth of Gill Athletics track & field equipment.
Field (USATF) will honor one boys’ and one girls’ high school track
& field team coach with the inaugural Gill Athletics National High
School Track & Field Coach of the Year Award. Pete Boudreaux, boys’
coach of Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, La, and James Holdren Jr.,
girls’ coach of Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School in Richmond, VA.,
will be recognized at the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 26 during
the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, IA in
front of a 14,000 Drake Stadium crowd. Both award recipients’ schools
will receive $5,000 worth of Gill Athletics track & field equipment.
“High school track & field coaches are the backbone of the
sport of track & field in the U.S.” says David Hodge, CEO of Gill
Athletics. “Without their tireless work and dedication, the U.S. would
not lead the world in the sport as it does. Gill Athletics is proud to
recognize the great commitment of these coaches to our high school
athletes.”
sport of track & field in the U.S.” says David Hodge, CEO of Gill
Athletics. “Without their tireless work and dedication, the U.S. would
not lead the world in the sport as it does. Gill Athletics is proud to
recognize the great commitment of these coaches to our high school
athletes.”
Out of 158 applications from throughout the country, Boudreaux and
Holdren were selected as two of the 12 regional finalists for the Gill
Athletics National High School Track & Field Coach of the Year
Award. Based on the candidates’ coaching record, honors and
recognitions, and service to the sport and their communities, the USATF
Coaches Advisory Committee named Boudreaux and Holdren the final
winners.
Holdren were selected as two of the 12 regional finalists for the Gill
Athletics National High School Track & Field Coach of the Year
Award. Based on the candidates’ coaching record, honors and
recognitions, and service to the sport and their communities, the USATF
Coaches Advisory Committee named Boudreaux and Holdren the final
winners.
“I feel very fortunate and humbled by this recognition for our
school and the CHS track program,” responds Boudreaux. “At the same
time, I fully understand that this recognition is the result of many
very special people; my wife and family, the Catholic High School
family, the assistant coaches that have so loyally worked with us and,
of course, the many, many athletes through the years who have bought
into what we were doing and have helped make us the storied program that
we are today. I have been very blessed to be surrounded by such loyal,
giving and caring people.”
school and the CHS track program,” responds Boudreaux. “At the same
time, I fully understand that this recognition is the result of many
very special people; my wife and family, the Catholic High School
family, the assistant coaches that have so loyally worked with us and,
of course, the many, many athletes through the years who have bought
into what we were doing and have helped make us the storied program that
we are today. I have been very blessed to be surrounded by such loyal,
giving and caring people.”
“I have spent the better part of my life of 68 years in this
wonderful sport,” responds Holdren. “I am thrilled and honored to
receive this national award.”
wonderful sport,” responds Holdren. “I am thrilled and honored to
receive this national award.”
A list of the 2010 Regional Finalists and coaching highlights for
Boudreaux and Holdren follow. All this information and further details
about the award can be found at: www.gillcoachoftheyear.com.
Boudreaux and Holdren follow. All this information and further details
about the award can be found at: www.gillcoachoftheyear.com.
Regional Finalists:
Eduardo Diaz – Loyola
HS of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA
Claney Duplechin – Episcopal
HS in Baton Rouge, LA
Yvonne Grimes – Bethel HS in Bethel, CT
John Gudgel – Yellow Springs HS in Yellow Springs, OH
Charles
Harris – Lake Brantley HS in Altamonte Springs, FL
Rick Kates –
Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, MA
Michael Kuhn – Mandan HS in
Mandan, ND
Robert Nihells – Lake Park HS in Roselle, IL
Chris Schmidt – Spanish Fort HS in Spanish Fort, AL
Lorily
Smith-Thompson – Junipero Serra HS in Gardena, CA
Eduardo Diaz – Loyola
HS of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA
Claney Duplechin – Episcopal
HS in Baton Rouge, LA
Yvonne Grimes – Bethel HS in Bethel, CT
John Gudgel – Yellow Springs HS in Yellow Springs, OH
Charles
Harris – Lake Brantley HS in Altamonte Springs, FL
Rick Kates –
Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, MA
Michael Kuhn – Mandan HS in
Mandan, ND
Robert Nihells – Lake Park HS in Roselle, IL
Chris Schmidt – Spanish Fort HS in Spanish Fort, AL
Lorily
Smith-Thompson – Junipero Serra HS in Gardena, CA
Pete Boudreaux coaching highlights:
Pete Boudreaux’s track & field and cross country teams have
won 33 state titles – 11 state outdoor track titles, 7 state indoor
track titles, and 15 state cross-country titles. The track teams own the
four highest scores ever recorded in a 5A Louisiana state meet while
the cross country teams own the three lowest scores ever recorded in the
state championship. In 1991, Boudreaux’s school, Catholic High School,
became the first school to ac-complish the feat of winning state titles
in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track in the same year. The
2008-2009 and 2009-2010 teams repeated the feat to become the only
school in Louisiana to ever accomplish the feat in back to back years.
won 33 state titles – 11 state outdoor track titles, 7 state indoor
track titles, and 15 state cross-country titles. The track teams own the
four highest scores ever recorded in a 5A Louisiana state meet while
the cross country teams own the three lowest scores ever recorded in the
state championship. In 1991, Boudreaux’s school, Catholic High School,
became the first school to ac-complish the feat of winning state titles
in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track in the same year. The
2008-2009 and 2009-2010 teams repeated the feat to become the only
school in Louisiana to ever accomplish the feat in back to back years.
Boudreaux has been the Louisiana Coach of the year 14 times. He
has also earned Athletic Director of the Year and National High School
Regional Coach of the Year. Induction into the Louisiana High School
Athletic Association Hall of Fame and LSU Track Officials Hall of Fame
are prominent awards in Boudreaux’s career.
has also earned Athletic Director of the Year and National High School
Regional Coach of the Year. Induction into the Louisiana High School
Athletic Association Hall of Fame and LSU Track Officials Hall of Fame
are prominent awards in Boudreaux’s career.
Boudreaux served as past president of the Louisiana High School
Coaches Association and presently serves on the executive committee of
the Louisiana High School Athletic Directors As¬sociation. He has served
on several International coaching staffs and was named to the U.S
Olympics Sports Festival coaching staff and was a staff member for the
USA vs Great Britain in Edinburgh, Scotland (1993) as well as a staff
member for the Junior World Cham¬pionships in Annecy, France in 1998.
Coaches Association and presently serves on the executive committee of
the Louisiana High School Athletic Directors As¬sociation. He has served
on several International coaching staffs and was named to the U.S
Olympics Sports Festival coaching staff and was a staff member for the
USA vs Great Britain in Edinburgh, Scotland (1993) as well as a staff
member for the Junior World Cham¬pionships in Annecy, France in 1998.
James Holdren coaching highlights:
James
Holdren has been coaching cross-country and track for 43 years. He has
collected the most high school track wins in Virginia history, with a
career total of 1,362 wins in girl’s track and cross country, including
91 District team titles, 42 District runner-up finishes, 47 Regional
titles, 26 Regional runner-up finishes, 8 State titles, 10 state
runner-up finishes, 243 major invitational titles and a 973-257 dual
meet record. His girls’ outdoor track teams went undefeated in dual
meets for 16 years with 109 consecutive victories. He has coached 10
National Record holders, 57 All-Americans and 115 State champions.
James
Holdren has been coaching cross-country and track for 43 years. He has
collected the most high school track wins in Virginia history, with a
career total of 1,362 wins in girl’s track and cross country, including
91 District team titles, 42 District runner-up finishes, 47 Regional
titles, 26 Regional runner-up finishes, 8 State titles, 10 state
runner-up finishes, 243 major invitational titles and a 973-257 dual
meet record. His girls’ outdoor track teams went undefeated in dual
meets for 16 years with 109 consecutive victories. He has coached 10
National Record holders, 57 All-Americans and 115 State champions.
In 1988, Holdren won the NHSACA girls track coach of the
year award, and he won the NHSACA girls cross-country coach of the year
award in 2006. A coach can only win this award once in any particular
sport, making it even more of an honor that he has won it both in track
and in cross-country. He is the only Virginia coach to win the national
coach of the year award in two sports.
Holdren was inducted into the Virginia High School Hall of
Fame in 1993 and the National High School Athletic Coaches Association
Hall of Fame in 2006. Holdren was one of only two coaches in the
Richmond area to receive the honor.
Holdren has been a member of the Virginia High School
Coach’s Association since 1964, and has served on its Legislative
Council since 1975 and its Executive Board since 1978. Over the past 46
years, he has served in every capacity in the Virginia USATF
Association (formally AAU and TAC), including as its President for the
past three Olympiads. He was a charter member of the National High
School Athletic Coaches Association, serving on its Advisory Board
(1980-1988), as a National Girl’s Track Chairman (1981-1987), and as a
Board of Director (1981-1986, 1990-1997). He has served as the State
Track & Field Rules Interpreter since 1994 and as a District and
Regional Cross Country, Indoor Track and Outdoor Track Championship Meet
Director, and on the State Championship Games Committee since 1965.
About Gill
Athletics, founded in 1918, is the world’s oldest and largest manufacturer of Track & Field equipment. Gill implements and equipment are in use on most of America’s collegiate, high school, and junior high school tracks & fields. For more information about Gill Athletics, call 800-637-3090 or visit www.gillathletics.com.
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About USA Track & Field
USA Track & Field (USATF)
is the National Governing Body for track & field, long-distance
running and race walking in the United States. USATF encompasses the
world’s oldest organized sports, the World’s #1 Track & Field Team,
the most-watched events at the Olympics, the #1 high school and junior
high school participatory sport, and more than 30 million adult runners
in the United States: www.usatf.org.
is the National Governing Body for track & field, long-distance
running and race walking in the United States. USATF encompasses the
world’s oldest organized sports, the World’s #1 Track & Field Team,
the most-watched events at the Olympics, the #1 high school and junior
high school participatory sport, and more than 30 million adult runners
in the United States: www.usatf.org.
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