Zeb Lang Hired as Men's Cross Country, Track - Cornell University ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Nathan Taylor, the George E. Heekin '29 Head Coach of Men's Track & Field and Cross Country, is pleased to announced the hiring of Zeb Lang as his the cross country and track assistant coach starting this season. Lang will be in charge of guiding the men's cross country team and the track and field team in the middle-distance and long-distance events.

Already very familiar with Cornell, Lang has four years of volunteer coaching experience for the Big Red men. He served as a volunteer assistant coach from 2009-2012 and also volunteered during the 2003-2004 school year.

?I embrace this opportunity to coach the team that has given me so much,? Lang said. ?I'm so thankful to Coach Nathan Taylor for giving me this tremendous opportunity and I'm eternally grateful to former coach Robert Johnson and John Kellogg for mentoring me in all aspects of coaching over the past several years.?

Lang received his bachelor's degree in economics from Cornell in 2003 and spent the following year as a volunteer assistant while working in Cornell's Department of Alumni Affairs. After a five-year stint as a real estate accountant in Denver, Lang returned to Ithaca in 2009 and completed his MBA at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management in May 2011 before gaining experience as a senior financial analyst at Merck in 2011-2012.

In 2012, Lang helped guide Brett Kelly to 29:24 in the 10,000 meters, Max Groves to 14:15 in the 5,000 meters, and John Schilkowsky to 4:03 in the indoor mile. He also assisted in coaching Rutger Admirand, Will Weinlandt, and Nick Wade to sub-1:50 800-meter races.

Lang worked with two distance runners in 2011 who earned a berth in the NCAA outdoor championships, where Adrien Dannemiller competed in the steeplechase and Nate Edelman earned an All-American finish in the 10,000 meters.
Over the past two years, Lang has guided four sub-30-minute 10,000-meter runners, nine 5,000-meter runners who have run 14:30 or faster, six 1,500-meter runners who clocked 3:50 or faster, and five 800-meter runners who ran 1:51 or faster.

As an undergraduate, Lang competed in cross-country for four years, earning a varsity letter his senior year and competing at the Heptagonal Championships and Northeast Regional Championships in 2002. Lang was also a member of the 2002 Cornell squad that won the IC4A Cross-Country Championship for the first time since 1921. In track and field, Lang competed in the long-distance events and during his senior year, Cornell won the Heptagonal Championships indoors and outdoors.

Lang takes over as the assistant coach after former assistant Robert Johnson stepped down to a volunteer role in the off-season.

Source: http://cornellbigred.com/news/2012/8/17/MTRACK_0817120023.aspx

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