Jeremey Gee enters his fourth season as an assistant coach withthe men’s and women's track and field programs in 2009-10.Gee oversees the sprints, hurdles and jumps, working primarily withthe sprinters and horizontal jumping events. He is also theprogram’s recruiting coordinator.
Since his arrival Gee’s student-athletes have recorded fournew school records, posted 69 ECAC/IC4A qualifying performances,and added 39 new marks to Harvard’s top-10 list. Hiswomen’s relay team of Brittan Smith ’09, DanielleMiraba l’08, Shannon Flahive ’09 and Favia Merritt’08 established a new school record in the 4x100 meter. Inthe long jump, regional qualifier Smith set a new indoor schoolrecord and has the number two mark outdoors with Flahive rightbehind her at number three. Smith also added her name to theprogram’s top-10 list in the 55, 60, and 100 meters. Mirabalran Harvard’s second fastest 60 and added her name to thetop-10 list in the 55, 100, and 200 meters. Merritt broke theschool record in the 100 meters, moved into fifth in the 200, andadded her name to the program’s top-10 list in the 60meters.
His Men’s 4 x 400m relay team of John Dingus ’12, JonWofsy ’09, Derek Jones ’09 and Justin Grinstead’10 stands number seven on the program’s all-time list.Dingus also broke the indoor school record in the 400m with Wofsyrunning the ninth best time in the program’s history, andsprinter Steven Geloneck ran the fourth best 100m time.
Prior to joining the staff at Harvard, Gee was the head track andfield coach at his alma mater, El Camino High School, for fouryears. Gee coached his teams to four San Diego sectionchampionships and was named “Coach of the Year” threetimes for the San Diego section and twice for the North Countysection.
Before coaching at El Camino, Gee was an assistant track coach forone of the top programs in California, James Logan High in UnionCity. James Logan hosts the annual Olympic Development Clinic, thelargest learn-by-doing clinic in the nation, at which he was ableto work with former Olympians and Olympic coaches. He made animmediate impact in the school and the community coaching some ofCalifornia’s best athletes and organizing winter mini-clinicsand summer camps for the local residents. During his years as ahigh school coach in his specialty events, the horizontal jumps,Gee guided nine females over 19 feet and nine males over 23 feet inthe long jump and eight females over 38 feet and four males over 48feet in the triple jump.
Gee is a 1999 graduate of the University of Nebraska at Kearney,where he was the first African-American student to earn a B.S. inMathematics. He was a member of both the Lopers’ football andtrack and field squads. He was a four-year starter andall-conference athlete in football. In track, he was the teamcaptain, an all-conference selection in the jumping events, and amember of two school record-holding relay teams.
After competing for the Lopers, he coached the horizontal jumpersfor one season at his alma mater in the spring of 1999.
Gee is a certified USA Track and Field Level 1 coach and a Level 2coach in the sprints, hurdles and relays.
