Coach Terry O'Neill is a veteran Ultimate coach and player. His coaching work focuses on the physical nature of the game, and the foot speed that is so crucial to success on the field. O'Neill has coached speed for such teams as the World Championship qualifying Ultimate team "Six Trained Monkeys".
Terry has been obsessed with speed from a very early age; he
joined his first track club at age six and has been racing ever since. Terry ran
with Speed Dynamics Atlanta from 1999 to 2001 under world class coaches Loren Seagrave and Paul Doyle. Experiencing what top-notch coaching can do for an
athlete's results, O'Neill became inspired to learn everything he could about
speed training across all sports. He has been sprint Coach for Greater Boston
Track Club, Men's and Women's Sprints/Hurdles/Jumps coach at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, Women's Sprints/Hurdles coach at M.I.T. and
Sprints/Hurdles/Jumps coach at Notre Dame: San Jose in California. He has also
coached speed for the Irish National Bobsled team.
"The most import thing I know about speed is that it can be taught. People have
this belief that endurance is made and speed is born, but it's just not true.
Yes we all have a different starting point, but everyone can learn to be faster,
quicker and more agile. With proper acceleration and sprinting technique learned
from the right drills, a nervous system tuned by the correct workouts and
muscles conditioned from rigorous hard work; any athlete can be considerably
faster"
Coach Alex Pozzy has been playing Ultimate since 1986 when he first learned at UMaine Orono. Shortly after, he joined Portland's Red Tide ultimate team and went on to the UPA national championships in '98 and '99. He is the founder and commissioner of the Portland Ultimate League. He competed in the PDGA Disc golf world championships in '99 and '00. He is currently coaching ultimate at Falmouth high school, which plays in the high school league he founded. "Ultimate doesn't build character it reveals it."
Marshall is a longtime Ultimate enthusiast, player, and coach. He was born and raised in Brunswick, Maine directly across the street from Bowdoin College’s athletic fields. When Marshall was twelve, his older brother taught him how to throw and catch a disc. Frisbee soon became a passion of Marshall’s, and he has been teaching the game to others ever since. Six years ago he decided to start his own Ultimate team when he discovered that his high school no longer had a Frisbee club. Marshall’s freshmen year his team won states and the Loggerheads has since placed among the top four in the state tournament each subsequent year. As the founder, former captain, and coach of the Loggerheads Ultimate Frisbee Team, Marshall has coached many players who have gone on to play ultimate at colleges such as Williams, Syracuse, and Earlham.
Marshall is currently a student at the University of Vermont, where he participates in Ultimate, squash, and tennis leagues. Because Marshall has experience as both a coach and captain, his coaching style is very hands-on, facilitating plays and instructing teammates and opponents from within the game. Marshall’s coaching style mixes drills, skill development, and scrimmages with camaraderie, enthusiasm, and fun. Both beginners and experts alike will profit from Marshall’s knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm.
Peter Slovenski has coached Track & Field at Bowdoin since 1987. Bowdoin
teams regularly finish among the top 5 teams in New England Division III
championships, and in nine seasons placed among the top 20 teams in NCAA
Division III. Slovenski was the New England Division III Coach of the Year for
Men's Cross-country in 1991 and for Indoor Track in 2000. He was voted Coach of
the Year for New England III Women's cross-country in 1991 and 1992. He has also
won NESCAC Coach of the Year for men's cross-country in 2000, 2001, and 2002.
Slovenski is a 1979 graduate of Dartmouth College, and a 1980 graduate of
Stanford University's School of Education. At Dartmouth he was a 4-year letter
winner in winter and spring track. He set freshman records in the decathlon and
pole vault in 1976. He made the All-Ivy League track team as a pole vaulter in
1977 and 1978.
Slovenski has twice served as NCAA Championship Meet Director when Bowdoin
hosted the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships in 1989 and
1993. He founded the Bates Track & Field Camp in 1989, and the Dick Fosbury
Track Camp in 2004. He has also been director of the Bowdoin College Day Camp
since 1989.