Kevin Phipps

Biography

Phipps joined the Big Red track and field staff as an assistant coach of throws in September 2016. Throughout Phipps' years as an assistant coach of throws at Cornell, he has coached numerous athletes to top-10 throws on the Cornell career record list. Before his coaching days, Phipps was a successful athlete himself at Baldwin-Wallace, his alma mater. He was a six-time DIII All-American and a seven-time Ohio Athletic Conference champion with 12 all-conference honors. He also played four years of varsity football for the YellowJackets and captained the team as a senior, earning all-conference honors as a defensive tackle. Phipps came to Cornell after five years as an assistant coach at Baldwin-Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, where he was named the 2016 U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association DIII Women's National Assistant Coach of the Year. He helped the Baldwin-Wallace women's indoor team to the 2016 NCAA DIII national championship and coached three national champions, 11 All-Americans, and 36 NCAA national championship meet qualifiers.