Track & Field

The 2011-2012 season will mark the fourth overall and second as a full-time staff member for Brian Chabot as Head Men's and Women's Track and Field Coach at WPI.

Chabot's program produced two NCAA participants out of four provisional qualifiers and two Capital One / CoSIDA Academic All-America student-athletes in the 2010-2011 campaign. Coach Chabot made the trip to both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships with Noelle Richard who finished 12th and 21st overall in the 400-meter dash. Julie Eagle joined them at the Outdoor Championships to finish 14th in the high jump. Krista Baker qualified for the indoor weight throw and Jeff Baker hit his marks for the outdoor hammer throw and javelin. Funmi Adebayo and Jeff Baker each took home Capital One / CoSIDA Academic All-America awards to help WPI achieve a record of six student-athletes to earn the distiction in an academic year.

In 2009-2010, both the Men’s and Women’s programs finished third in the NEWMAC Championships. The Women’s finish was its highest ever in the current membership of the league. In all, seven WPI student-athletes were crowned individual NEWMAC champions. Due to these efforts, Chabot was named the Women’s NEWMAC Coach of the Year. The women’s team success continued through the remainder of the championship season, where they had their highest finish in a decade at the Division III New England championships. Three members of the Women’s team qualified for the NCAA Championships and Coach Chabot was recognized as the NCAA Division III New England Region Women’s Coach of the Year.

Chabot had quite the rookie campaign, helping the Engineer men place second at the NEWMAC Championships, their highest ever finish and fourth at the New England Division III Outdoor Championships.  For his efforts, which included four NEWMAC champions, nine All New-England outdoor performers and an All-American, Chabot was named both the men’s NEWMAC and NCAA Division III New England Region Coach of the Year.   

Prior to becoming head coach, Chabot served as an Assistant Coach for four years, working primarily with Sprinters and Jumpers, helping 38 of his athletes earn All-New England honors and eight garner All-ECAC distinctions.

Prior to joining the staff at WPI, Chabot coached Indoor Track and Field at his alma mater, St. John's High School in Shrewsbury from 2000-01. Under Chabot's tutelage, the Pioneers set school records in the mile and the 4x800 relay.

In college, Chabot was a standout cross country and track and field athlete at UMass-Amherst. Chabot was a two-year team captain in both sports for the Minutemen and received All-New England distinctions on multiple occasions. He graduated from UMass in 1999 with a double-major in Psychology and History.

Vinny Kotowski begins his fifth year in his second stint as an assistant coach for WPI Track and Field, primarily working with the hurdlers, jumpers and multi-event athletes.

Due to the success of his athletes during the 2009-2010 campaign, Coach Kotowski was named the NCAA Division III New England Region Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year.  During his time on Boynton Hill, Kotowski has coached numerous NEWMAC individual champions, three school record holders, as well as a New England champion and three-time NCAA participant in the javelin.

A 1992 graduate of nearby Worcester State, Kotowski was a member of the Lancers' basketball and track teams, the latter for which he received All-New England and All-Conference honors.

Kotowski, a Chicopee, MA native, has been coaching track and field since 1985 and has been involved with Chicopee High School, Doherty High School and Worcester State as a coach. He had three athletes go to the Division III NCAA Championships while coaching at Worcester State, one each in the hurdles, high jump and javelin.

Kotowski has been a four-time member of the U.S. National Decathlon team and has the 2007 National Champion in the pentathlon at the U.S. Track and Field Masters. He also participated in the Eco-Challenge for the Discovery Channel in 1997, an extraordinary 300 mile competition involving running, canoeing, whitewater rafting, mountain biking, mountain climbing, glacial travel, hiking and swimming swift icy rivers in the rugged wilderness of Canada's British Columbia. 

Mike Stomski is beginning his sixth year on the WPI coaching staff as assistant track and field coach, working with the throwers. Stomski is a 1981 graduate of Worcester State and served as the throwing coach for the Lancers from 1982 to 1989.

In 2009-2010, Coach Stomski oversaw perhaps the strongest group of throwers WPI has ever seen. He coached the NEWMAC men and women’s individual champion in the Hammer Throw, as well as the women’s individual champion in the Shot Put. Four of his throwers garnered Division III All-New England accolades and those same four qualified for the NCAA Championships. Due to the tremendous success of his athletes, Coach Stomski was named the NCAA Division III New England Region Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year.

At the 2009 NCAA championships, Stomski guided Jarrett Arredondo to WPI's first All-America honor since 2000 when the junior finished seventh in the hammer throw.  It capped a season what saw WPI throwers win three NEWMAC championships and earn six All-New England awards at the New England Outdoor Division III championships.   

While a coach at Worcester State, Stomski had a combined 16 indoor and outdoor NCAA qualifiers, with two earning indoor All-America and four outdoor All-America.  His student-athletes won three Division III New England and three ECAC championships during his time at Worcester State.  As a coach, Stomski was inducted into the Worcester State College Hall of Fame in 2006.

Stomski has also served as a Central Massachusetts Track and Field Official since 1990. He currently works as a City of Worcester fire fighter, and is married with four children.

Peter Lohrmann, the 2004 and 2005 co-captain of the WPI Track and Field squad, begins his second year as an assistant coach in 2011-2012.  Lohrmann will be primarily working with sprints and distance athletes.

During his tenure as a student-athlete, Lohrmann placed in the top 10 in the decathlon at the Division III New England Championships twice.  He also competed in the 400-meter hurdles for the Engineers.  In the classroom, the computer science major earned his bachelor’s degree from WPI in 2005 and master’s degree in 2006. 

Lohrmann is currently a software engineer at AMD and, in June 2010, became a Road Runners Club of America certified coach.  Lohrmann still competes in relays, half marathons and five and 10-kilometer races.