College Track & Field
Rider Hires Hollingsworth Assistant Coach
Shelly Hollingsworth of Somerset has been hired as an assistant coach of the Rider University track & field team, Rider head coach Bob Hamer announced.
Hollingsworth comes to Rider from Kean College, where she was the head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country and track & field teams 2000-2006, winning the New Jersey Athletic Conference Women’s Coach of the Year award in 2005.
“Shelly is a very successful coach and she will primarily work with the jumpers and vaulters,” Hamer said, “but she can also help the team in any event area.”
Hollingsworth was an All-American at Penn State University ('92) in the Heptathlon, competing in the 1992 Olympic Trials in the hurdles. She set the Penn State record in the high jump. At Lakewood High School Hollingsworth was the New Jersey State Champion in the high jump and the 400 hurdles.
“Shelly was a tremendous high school and collegiate student-athlete who will be a great mentor to our student-athletes,” said Hamer, who was twice an All-American at Penn State in the1500 and medley relay.
“I am excited to have her on staff and I look forward to learning from her on a daily basis,” Hamer said.
