Taylor Cipicchio joins Angelo State University as her first season working with the jumping and multi event athletes. Cipicchio spent the previous two years as an assistant track and field coach at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
Last season, Cipicchio guided Idatonye Cheetham-West to post the 15th best women’s long jump mark in all NCAA Divisions. Cheetham-West had numerous school record distances over the season but finished the season with her best mark and current outdoor school record of 6.43m (21’ 1.25”) winning the WAC Outdoor Championship and qualifying her to the NCAA Division I West Preliminary Round with the region’s 7th best mark. Alongside Cheetham-West, Cipicchio additionally helped senior Dai’ja Coleman to qualify to the NCAA Division I West Preliminary Round in the Women’s Triple Jump. Coleman posted her personal best with a runner-up finish at the WAC Outdoor Championships of 12.58m (41’ 3.25”).
In the 2018 season, Cipicchio guided Anthony Magallon to post an NCAA Division I West Preliminary seed in the men’s high jump with a personal best mark of 2.10m (6’ 10.75”). Magallon won the high jump championship at the WAC Indoor Championships earlier in the season. Alongside Magallon, Cheetham-West also earned gold in the women’s long jump at the WAC Indoor Championships as well as the highest point scorer among all women at the Championship meet. Additionally, Coleman brought home silver at the same meet in women’s triple jump.
Cipicchio guided Coleman and Cheetham-West, as well as Freshman Eleanor Arndt to indoor school records in women’s triple jump, women’s long jump, and women’s pentathlon respectively.
Prior to her time at UTRGV, Cipicchio spent a season at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point (UWSP). Here, Cipicchio helped Stevens Point men’s and women’s programs to second place finishes at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Indoor Championships. At the WIAC Indoor Championships, Cipicchio guided freshman Sylviann Momont to a conference championship in the women’s pentathlon with a mark that qualified her to the NCAA DIII Indoor Championships. Momont’s efforts earned her All-American status with the 8th best mark in the nation at the championships.
On the men’s side, Cipicchio helped Jeremy Lee to a second place finish in the heptathlon at the WIAC Indoor Championships, with a NCAA Division III Indoor Championship qualifying mark. Lee finished in sixth place, also earning All-American honors, helping the men’s team finish in trophy fashion with fourth place.
In the outdoor season, she guided freshman Alex Grubbs to a WIAC Championship and NCAA Division III qualifying mark in the javelin throw, and additionally helping Momont to a second place finish in the heptathlon, with a NCAA DIII Championship qualifying mark. Additionally, Cipicchio guided freshman Briana Simonis to the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships in the women’s high jump.
Prior to her time at UWSP, Cipicchio was an assistant track and field coach at John F. Hodge High School for two seasons where she also taught math. She focused on pole vault, high jump, horizontal jumps, sprints and hurdles.Over her two seasons, she helped guide her program to 10 new school records while also establishing a pole vault program for the school. She helped guide her team to a state championship in the women’s 800 and 1,600-meter runs in both 2015 and 2016.
Cipicchio also spent 2014-15 and 2015-16 as a volunteer assistant at her alma mater Missouri University of Science and Technology, NCAA DII. Cipicchio coached one All-American, 9 Provisional Marks, and Men’s Great Lakes Valley Conference Outdoor Championship Title. Additionally, Cipicchio guided the men’s pole vaulters to sweep the podium with a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th place finish and the women’s pole vault title in the 2016 GLVC Indoor Championships.
Cipicchio graduated from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics. Cipicchio two-time NCAA Division II All-American in the women’s pole vault, finishing fourth place in both indoor and outdoor NCAA Championships in the 2014 seasons. Cipicchio was a four-time GLVC Conference Champion in the pole vault.
