Stan Rosenthal Position: Head Coach Experience: 6 seasons at USC Alma Mater: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1975

As cross country coach Stan Rosenthal enters his seventh year at South Carolina he looks to continue building upon the success he began in 2001. Rosenthal also coaches the distance runners during track and field season and was instrumental in helping the South Carolina women's team to its seventh consecutive NCAA indoor top-10 finish in 2007.

In 2007, Rosenthal saw Rebecca Chain run a four-second PR to advance to the finals of the 1500m at the SEC Outdoor Championships with a time of 4:37.13.

The South Carolina cross country team received USTFCCCA All-Academic Cross Country Team honors after posting a team grade point average of 3.56 for the fall semester, the 14th highest make of the 146 teams to receive the honor. Six Southeastern Conference teams received

All-Academic Team honors, with Carolina posting the highest team GPA. In 2006, Shay Shelton added to Rosenthal's total of SEC champions by claiming the indoor league crown in the 800m. Johnny Baez and Shawn Cunningham both found success in the 800m. Baez qualified for the NCAA East Regional meet and Cunningham was an SEC finalist and scorer. In 2007, Baez continued his success, by adding an SEC 800 finalist honors indoors. The prior year, Rosenthal coached Jenny Lake to a record-breaking 3,000m performance at the SEC Indoor Championship. Lake, who ran 9:41, broke the school indoor record she set in 2003 with a fourth-place finish. Rosenthal also coached the DMR team to a second-place finish at the SEC Championships.

With Rosenthal's assistance, the women's team finished fifth indoors at the NCAA Championships, while capturing the SEC outdoor and NCAA East Regional titles and finishing runner-up at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. In 2002, South Carolina's women finished fourth at the NCAA Indoor Championships and won the SEC and NCAA Outdoor Championships, giving the Gamecocks their first national team title in any sport. He coached Otukile Lekote to two NCAA titles (800m indoors and outdoors) and on the second leg of USC's NCAA champion 4x400m relay team. Additionally, Rosenthal oversaw the men's sprint medley relay team that was ranked No. 1 in the USA and NCAA that year. His 2005 women's squad accomplished the same feat as well.

Prior to joining the South Carolina staff, Rosenthal was the head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at UNC Asheville. During his seven-year tenure, the women won four Big South Conference Cross Country Championships. In the three years the women did not win, UNC Asheville finished as runner-up. The men's cross country team was Big South Conference runner-up in three of his last four years.

Rosenthal's runners have achieved success from the conference level to the world championship level. Two of his freshmen runners earned spots on the USA Junior Team and competed in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where they placed 40th and 43rd, respectively. Two other runners competed in the USA Olympic trials. Many of his runners have qualified for the NCAA Track and Field Championships. During his seven years as a high school coach in Virginia, two runners qualified for the Foot Locker/Kinney National Cross Country Championships.

Rosenthal has served on several USA international coaching staffs. He coached on three USA staffs for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships and was a coach at the USAOlympic Festival. In 2001, he was appointed to the NCAA Track and Field Committee. As a member of the Executive Committee for the Women's Cross Country Coaches Association, Rosenthal acted as the Southeast Region representative. he earned USA Track and Field Level I and II certifications for the endurance events.

Academic success is very important to Rosenthal. His athletes have achieved individually and as a team. In 2006, Rosenthal's cross country team placed several runners on the SEC Academic Honor Roll and three on the President's List. The cross country team has a cumulative GPA of 3.58. Jenny Lake was named 2005 USC Scholar Athlete of the Year, a McWhorter Scholar and the recipient of an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship. The first-team academic All-American graduated with a 4.0 GPA in mathematics and with honors from South Carolina's Honors College.

Two of the women's cross country teams coached by Rosenthal were ranked in the NCAA Division I Top 20, posting a 3.46 GPA. Seven athletes were selected as Conference Scholar-Athletes of the Year. During his coaching career, over 90% of the athletes he has recruited and coached have graduated. Many later earned graduate level degrees, including three who are currently in medical school.

In addition, to his coaching stint at UNC-Asheville, Rosenthal coached at Long Beach State, Georgia, South Alabama and was a graduate assistant coach at Tennessee. He also coached at Albemarle High School in Charlottesville, Va., and Spotsylvania, Va., where he started his coaching career in 1976. Coach Rosenthal earned his master's degree in education from Tennessee in 1983. His undergraduate degree came from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1975, where he majored in history and elementary education. While at IUP, he was a four-year varsity letter winner. In 1973 he competed in the six-mile run at Nationals. He was a member of two national qualifying cross country teams for IUP, in 1970 and 1972.