Gettysburg College Athletics

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Steve Shutt begins his third 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 2008. 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 two 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 team placed second at the Centennial Conference Outdoor Championships 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 regional championships.
Individually, the Bullets have thrived with Shutt steering his student-athletes to 14 school records, seven NCAA provisional-qualifying performances, and 63 All-CC finishes. The Bullets have crowned 22 individual champions at the ECAC and CC meets over those two years, with two 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.