CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Director of Harvard track and field and cross country Jason Saretsky announced the hiring of two new assistant coaches Wednesday. Marc Mangiacotti and Andrew Dubs are the newest members of the Harvard coaching staff. Saretsky also announced the restructuring of the Harvard track and field and cross country coaches.

“I am thrilled to add two outstanding coaches to our program,” said Saretsky. “Both coach Mangiacotti and coach Dubs have tremendous experience working with academically oriented student-athletes and they are both proven winners. They both possess incredible technical knowledge of the events they will be working with and are tireless recruiters. We had an opportunity to do some reshuffling this summer, and I am confident the changes we made will have a dramatic impact on our student-athletes' experiences as well as our results. It is going to be an exciting year.”

Mangiacotti comes to Harvard as an assistant coach after spending the previous two seasons at Brown, where he served as associate head coach and mentored the sprinters and hurdlers. With the Crimson, Mangiacotti will oversee the men's sprinters and hurdles. During his time at Brown, he made a big impact on the Bears sprinters, coaching five Ivy League champions that combined for nine league titles. He also coached 15 athletes that earned All-Ivy League credentials and saw his group break four school records. Prior to his time at Brown, Mangiacotti served as the co-head coach at Wheaton (Mass.), and assistant coach at Houston and Bridgewater State.

Dubs joins the Harvard coaching staff after spending the 2011-12 season working at the University of North Carolina as the throwing coach for the track & field program. Dubs' primary event group with the Crimson will be the throwers. The 2011-12 season saw Dubs help the UNC throwing corps yield three ACC scorers, two first-team All-ACC honorees and two NCAA qualifiers. He was also responsible for bringing one of the best recruiting classes of throwers in the nation to UNC. Prior to his time at North Carolina, Dubs was a volunteer assistant at Auburn, studying under the tutelage of Auburn throwing coach Jerry Clayton, and an assistant at his high school alma mater, Council Rock South in Holland, Pa.

In addition to the new faces in the coaching ranks, Saretsky announced a restructuring of his staff, most notably promoting women's sprints/hurdles/heptathlon/men's and women's horizontal jumps coach Kebba Tolbert to associate head coach. Tolbert is in his second season with the Crimson and aided the Harvard sprints group to one of its best seasons in recent history in 2011-12. Brenner Abbott, in his second year at Harvard, will coach the vertical jumps and decathlon while Priscilla Bayley, also in her second year at Harvard, takes over as the men's and women's middle distance and women's distance coach. Bayley will also serve as the recruiting coordinator for the entire staff.   

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