Pete Dolan Hometown: Los Gatos, Calif High School: Bellarmine Prep Last College: UC Santa Barbara Position: Head Coach Graduated: 1982

Pete Dolan Profile on UCSBTrack.com
Santa Barbara Newspress Article on Dolan's Coaching

Pete Dolan is the head coach for both the men's and women's track and field teams, as well as the head coach for the men's and women's cross country teams.

Since Dolan's arrival at Santa Barbara in 1988, both the men's and women's distance programs have become highly regarded in the Big West Conference. Since 2000, distance athletes from 800m-10,000m have qualified for the Div. 1 NCAA Championships.

2005 was truly a historical year for Dolan. On the women's side, they claimed their first Track & Field Big West team title. The distance women broke school records from 1500m-5,000m, a Big West Conference Record at 5,000m, won Big West titles, swept the first four spots in the 5k, qualified four to the NCAA Regionals at 5,000m and landed two at the NCAA Championship 5k finals.

On the men's side, the 1500m school record was broken, Tetlo Emmen was named All-American at 800m and the Top-10 board continued to be re-written. During the Cross Country campaign, Chris Ashley won the men's individual Big West title was named Athlete of the Year.

In 2003, Katie Appenrodt became an All-American at 5000m and in 2004 his athletes went 1-2 in the 800m at the NCAA West Regional Championships and qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 5000m and 10,000m.

The women have excelled at phenomenal rates over the last four years. In 2004, the Gauchos not only claimed their second Big West Championship, defeating a tough Idaho squad but also finished 3rd at Regionals and 17th in the country at the NCAA Championships. In 2003, the women claimed their first national ranking by ending their storied season with a 29th place finish the NCAA Championships, their first trip to the big dance. The gaucho women have claimed 5 conference championships in 1993, 1994, 1996, 2003 and 2004.

His men's cross country team has claimed the conference championship in 1995, 1997 and 2001. His 2001 team ranks as one of UCSB's all time great teams that would end up finishing 17th at the NCAA Div 1 Championships (there are over 850 NCAA men's teams). They have finished in the top 3 at the Big West Championships six years in a row.

Dolan has earned Big West Coach of the Year awards nine times.

Dolan prides his program on fulfilling athletes' potential with exceptional rate of improvement over four to five years of training.

Dolan By the Numbers - Cross Country / 800m-10k
* 8 Big West Cross Country Team Titles
* 8 Time Big West Cross Country Coach of the Year
* 6 Big West Cross Country Individual Titles
* 1 Cross Country All-American
* 16 Cross Country All-Regional Honors
* 14 - Years in a row that UCSB Athletes have been awarded All-Big West honors (leads Big West).
* 1 Big West T&F Team Title (Women '05)
* 1 Big West T&F Coach of the Year
* 24 Big West T&F Individual Titles
* 4 NCAA T&F All-Americans
* 28 T&F All-Regional Qualifying Marks (800m-10k) since 2003.

Personal Info:
As an undergraduate of UCSB, Dolan was named All-Big West in the 10,000 meter in 1982 and was named UCSB's Most Valuable Distance runner in the same year. He received his bachelor's degree in Business Economics from UCSB in 1982 and his master's degree in Sports Science from the United States Sports Academy in 1987.

Below are several athletes' progression charts from high school, through their UCSB career.

Dave Cullum (graduated 1997)

• 1997 Division 1 All-American in the steeple
• Former holder of 3 school records in the steeple, 1500m, and 5k.
• 5 time All-Big West selection