Phone: (717) 337-6403
Steve Shutt begins his fourth season as the head coach of the Gettysburg College men’s and women’s cross country and track and field programs in the fall of 2009. He took the reigns for the Bullets in the summer of 2006 after seven years in a similar capacity at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.
Shutt’s first three seasons at the helm have proved to be successful, as he has guided his teams and student-athletes to impressive finishes on the conference, regional, and national levels. His men’s track & field team recorded the top finish in school history at the Centennial Conference Indoor Championships when it placed second in 2008, and the team tied its best performance at the CC Outdoor Championships when it also took second in 2008. The women’s track & field also tied its best performance at the Centennial Conference Outdoor Championships by placing second in 2008 before tying for sixth among 53 teams at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Outdoor Championships. In cross country, his 2006 women’s squad made a substantial improvement over the prior season, jumping three spots at the Centennial Conference Championships to fourth, before leaping seven spots to 11th at the ECAC Championships.
Individually, the Bullets have thrived under Shutt, breaking school records 21 times in 18 events. He has also steered his athletes to nine NCAA provisional-qualifying performances, and 86 All-CC finishes. The Bullets have crowned 25 individual champions at the ECAC and CC meets over those three years, with three advancing to the NCAA Division III Championships.
Shutt built quite the resume at Wittenberg as the Tigers’ cross country teams saw 10 student-athletes earn NCAA Division III Coaches Association All-Academic honors in addition to 10 All-North Coast Athletic Conference honorees. Four of his cross country runners were named All-Great Lakes Region, and in 2000, he guided the first Wittenberg athlete ever to qualify for the NCAA championships.
In track and field, Wittenberg set 38 school records under Shutt, and 12 athletes were crowned North Coast Athletic Conference champions at least once each. In 2003, he boasted the NCAA Division III national champion in the 110-meter hurdles and the runner-up in the 55-meter hurdles. Shutt also coached Tiger athletes to seven NCAA Division III All-America finishes.
Prior to his arrival at Wittenberg, Shutt was an assistant coach at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich., where he also served as the director of intramurals. From 1994-97, he served as a graduate assistant at Slippery Rock University while working toward his master’s degree in science of exercise and sport. A 1994 graduate of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., he was a four-year letterwinner in both indoor and outdoor track and field and was a two-time champion in the pole vault. In 2007, he received his master of science in kinesiology degree from the University of Texas-Pan American.
