In the fall of 2009, Peter Slovenski will begin his 23rd season as the head coach of the men's and women's cross country, men's and women's indoor track & Field, and men's and women's outdoor track & field teams.

Slovenski has led the men's cross country team to the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship in 1991, 2001 and 2002. In 1994, the women's cross country team became the first team in Bowdoin history to qualify for a NCAA Division III Championship, and the Polar Bears recorded a seventh-place finish. Since 1989, Men's and Women's Cross Country and Track teams have won seven NESCAC championships, three ECAC championships and one New England championship.

"There is an impressive collaboration between the academic and athletic efforts of Bowdoin students," according to Coach Slovenski. "The same discipline and commitment that makes Bowdoin athletes excel in regional and national athletic competition also makes them excel in the classroom."

Slovenski has coached nearly 50 All-Americans at Bowdoin and served as the meet director for the 1989 and 1993 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Bowdoin.

Slovenski is a 1979 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he was a four-year letterwinner in winter and spring track. He set freshman records in the decathlon and pole vault and was an All-Ivy track selection in the pole vault in 1977 and 1978. He received an M.A. in educational administration and policy analysis from Stanford University in 1980.

To contact Coach Slovenski, you can email him at pslovens@bowdoin.edu .

A 2002 Bowdoin graduate, Casey (Kelley) Ellis returned to Brunswick in 2010 as an assistant track coach.  A two-season track captain for the women's team, she established a school record in the triple jump and placed 13th in the 2002 NCAA Championships. She was the ECAC champion in the triple jump in 2000, and a NESCAC All-Academic Athlete in 2001. She also competed for Bowdoin in the javelin and heptathlon.  After college she earned a Master's degree in Education from Stanford University, where she also worked in graduate admissions.  From 2008 through 2010 Ellis was an assistant track coach at Colby.  At Bowdoin, she coaches the horizontal jumps and the throwing events.  In her first season at Bowdoin, she coached athletes who made earned All-New England III honors in the weight throw, long jump, triple jump, and pentathlon. Currently, Ellis holds two USATF Level II certifications in the throws and jumps.

Lynn Ruddy, a senior member of the Bowdoin coaching staff and an Associate Director of Athletics, rejoined the track & field program in 2001. Coach Ruddy is the team's high jump and sprint coach. She served as the indoor championship liaison on the NCAA Division III Track & Field Committee from 1997-2001. Throughout her 30-year career at Bowdoin College, she has coached several All-Americans and All-New England athletes in the sports of swimming, cross-country, and track & field and was a long-time volleyball coach at the school. Ruddy is a graduate of UW-Oshkosh and a native of Wisconsin and proudly holds the lowest 'certified' golf handicap of anyone on the Bowdoin Athletics staff.