Kirk Reynolds, the women's cross country and track coach, has been at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges since 1989. Reynolds earned a psychology degree from Lewis and Clark College in Oregon, where he competed in track and cross country. He has an M.S. in cognitive psychology from The Claremont Graduate School. From 1986 to 1989, Reynolds was an assistant coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, where he coached the men's and women's distance runners.
Reynolds has twice been selected as the NCAA III West Region Track and Field Coach of the Year,
and he has been a SCIAC Coach of the Year seven times in cross
country and track and field. He is
a USATF Level I certified coach, and is also a Correspondent for 'Track and Field News'
magazine. During Spring 2004, he traveled on sabbatical to Kenya in East Africa to study the wildly successful men and
women distance runners there. He lives in Claremont with his wife Carla
Jackson (a Pomona-Pitzer assistant coach and 800m/1500m runner
at Cal Berkeley) and
daughter Kalinda and son Caden
Reynolds is a Professor of Physical Education and teaches activity classes in weight training, wallyball, running/jogging, tennis, ultimate frisbee, aqua-fit, and wellness education. |
