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	Matt Gittermann
	Position: Head Cross County Coach/Assistant Track & Field Coach

UMBC Director of Athletics Dr. Charles Brown announced in Fall '08 that Matt Gittermann has been named head men’s and women’s cross country coach. He will also be the assistant coach for the men's and women's track and field teams.

Prior to UMBC, Gittermann had served as head cross country and track and field coach at Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City, Md., since August 2004. All four of his boys’ teams (2A/3A) had finished among the top eight in the state championships, peaking with a fourth-place finish last fall. The Mount Hebron girls’ program also rose to prominence, finishing third at the state championships in 2007.

The track programs had also been extremely strong under Gittermann’s leadership. His 2005 boys’ indoor team and 2007 girls’ outdoor team both finished as runners-up at the state championships. Overall, Mount Hebron broke more than 80 school records, produced 15 individual state champions and one All-American during Gittermann’s tenure.

Gittermann started his coaching career as head track and field coach at neighboring Hammond High School in the fall of 2003. The January 2003 graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio,  earned four letters in cross country and three in track and field and was the 1999 Ohio Athletic Conference freshman cross country Runner of the Year.

The Lewiston, N.Y., native earned his bachelor’s degree in Middle Childhood Education from Baldwin-Wallace and just completed his master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction with Administrative focus from McDaniel College (Md.) in May 2008.

Gittermann currently teaches Biology in the Howard County Public School System. He has a USATF Level II Certification in Sprints, Hurdles, Relays, and Endurance. Additionally he was one of 20 collegiate and high school coaches selected to attend the USATF/United States Olympic Committee Emerging Elite Endurance Coaching Clinic at the Olympic Training Facility at Chula Vista, Calif.