Texas Rio Grande Valley Athletics

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) track and field team announced on August 8 that it has hired Taylor Cipicchio, who spent last season as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, as an assistant coach who will focus on jumps and multi-events.
 
Last season, Cipicchio helped Wisconsin Stevens Point men’s and women’s programs to second place finishes at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Indoor Championships.
 
It was at the WIAC Indoor Championships where Cipicchio guided Sylviann Momount to a conference championship in the pentathlon while also guiding here to an eighth place finish at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships where she earned All-American status.
 
On the men’s side, Cipicchio helped Jeremy Lee to a second place finish in the heptathlon at the WIAC Indoor Championships. He also went on to qualify for the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships where he finished in sixth place also earning All-American honors while helping guide the men’s team finished fourth place finish.
 
In the outdoor season, she guided Alex Grubbs to a WIAC Championship in the javelin throw while helping Momount to a second place finish in the heptathlon. Cipicchio also guided Momount, Lee, Grubbs and Briana Simonis to the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships.
 
Prior to her time at Wisconsin Stevens Point, 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 schools 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 Missouri University of Science and Technology where she guided Ryan McGuire to All-American honors in the pole vault both seasons.
 
Cipicchio graduated from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics. She lettered four years on the track and field team where she was a two-time NCAA Division II All-American in the women’s pole vault and a four-time Great Lakes Valley Conference champion in the pole vault.