Men's Outdoor Track and Field

Head Coach: Arnold Minkoff

Coach Minkoff is in his second round of coaching at Farmingdale State. After 12 successful years of high school coaching at Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood Queens (Dual meet record 125-40), Coach Minkoff became the Head Coach at Farmingdale Junior College from 1980-1989. The team obtained National recognition placing 8th and 10th in the NJCAA Championships. His dual meet record was 44-7 with 4 National Champions, 57 All-Americans, 5 Eastern Junior College Team Champions, 2 New York State Junior College Team Champions and 15 Regional Junior College Team Champions. In 1983, the 4x800m Indoor Relay set a National Junior College record of 7:39.47.

In 1989, Coach Minkoff moved to C.W. Post College as an Assistant and became Head Coach from 1991-1995. At C.W. Post, he coached 14 more NCAA Division II All-Americans and another National Champion. Six of Coach Minkoff's athletes have competed internationally for their respective countries. Coach Minkoff has been a member of 10 United States Maccabiah Teams as an athlete, coach and overall team manager.

In 1995, Coach Minkoff became the Athletic Director of the Oyster Bay Schools. In 2002, he retired and returned to Farmingdale State as Head Coach in 2003. Coach Minkoff received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Buffalo and his Master's from NYU. He also has his School Administration Certificate from NYU.

Assistant Coach: Frank McHugh

Since he was 14 years old, he has been involved in Track & Field. At St. John's Prep, he was on the Penn Relay Championships 2-mile relay and continued his running career at St. John's University. Frank's first coaching position was at St. Augustine where he coached Joe Kearney, who finished second in the National Championships. After leaving St. Augustine, he moved to Elmont High School where he coached for over 30 years. During his tenure at Elmont, he coached 10 State Champions, 31 All-State athletes and 5 All-Americans.

Assistant Coach: Caryl Senn-Griffiths

Coach Senn has been a volunteer coach at Farmingdale State from 1986 - present. She is a former USA and Olympic Track Coach of the USA Amputee Team where she coached for 15 years. International competitions she took part in include, Barcelona, Spain; the Atlanta Olympic Games; the World Championships in Berlin, Germany; the Pan American Games in Mexico City, Mexico; and the Paralympic Revival in Duderstadt, Germany.

As a track runner, she was a Two-Time All-American in the Heptathlon at Ithaca College. She is a former ECAC Champion and Record holder in the Heptathlon and Pentathlon while she attended Ithaca. She is a 14-Time Empire State Games Champion in the Heptathlon. She is a Master's World Record holder in the Pentathlon and 4x400 Relay, as well as a Master's American Record holder in the Heptathlon.

Coach Senn has been a Physical Therapist and Director of Sports Medicine at a facility in Massapequa for the past 16 years. She was recently inducted into the Massapequa / Berner High School Hall of Fame for career and athletic achievements.

Assistant Coach: Patric Santiago

A 2006 Farmingdale State graduate, Patric will join the Track and Field coaching staff for the 2006-07 seasons. He is also the only student-athlete to ever compete in four sports in school history and was Captain of all four sports during his career, including soccer, golf, indoor and outdoor track.

Patric was a two-year Captain in both indoor and outdoor, competing in the High Jump and Triple Jump. He finished in 4th place in the Triple Jump at the 2005-06 Indoor Track ECAC Championship's and 8th at the Collegiate Track Conference Championship (CTC's) in 04-05. In outdoor track, he finished 3rd at the 2006 CTC's and 4th at the 2006 ECAC's in the Triple Jump and took 4th place at the 2005 CTC's. Patric leaves the Track and Field team on Farmingdale State's Top-Ten Performance List for the Triple Jump in 3rd place.

Academically, Patric graduated with a GPA of 3.96 and was named an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American in 2006. He was a member of Phi Theta Kappa and the Vice President of our Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. He was the first student-athlete at Farmingdale to receive the Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence in 2005, was a two-time recipient of the Chancellor's Scholar-Athlete Award (2005 and 2006) and a two-time Farmingdale State Male Athlete of the Year (2004 and 2006). He also received the 2006 ECAC Robbins Scholar-Athlete Award, which is given annually to just one male and one female student-athlete from Divisions I, II and III.

Assistant Coach: Jim Seifert

Jim Seifert joins the team as an Assistant Coach for the 2006-07 season. Jim is a former assistant coach at Farmingdale (1993) and returns with a wealth of experience, locally and nationally. From 1992-1996, he trained full-time and competed on the US National Team in the Discus Throw. During two of those years, he had the longest throw in the US and in 1993 had the 2nd longest throw in the World. He was a member of the 1996 Athens Olympic Centennial Games. In 1992, he won gold medals in 3 International Meets in Canada and Europe while competing on the US National Team.

Jim graduated from Long Island University - C.W. Post in 1984 with a Bachelor's degree in Business Management. He coached at Farmingdale in 1993 and coached at St. Anthony's High School in 1994. He is currently a Certified Personal Fitness trainer, working independently training clients in their homes and at various local gyms. He also works privately with high school and elite-level athletes as their strength and conditioning coach and performs strength and conditioning clinics throughout the Northeast.