College of New Orleans Vice President for Athletics and Recreation Tim Duncan has namedas the Observe and Area / Cross Nation program’s interim head coach for the 2023-2024 season.”Ben was the primary and best alternative for Kim Gallow (Affiliate Athletic Director, and Observe & Area sport administrator) and I to pick as our Interim Head Coach. He’s a gifted and pushed chief who has helped our observe and subject program proceed its ascent up the Southland Convention and NCAA Regional rankings. I sit up for watching and evaluating him this 12 months,” mentioned Duncan.Hibbert, a local of Bakersfield, Calif. got here to the Lakefront final September as an Assistant Coach in control of Jumps, Hurdles and Sprints. Final season all 5 Privateers who certified for the NCAA’s Outside East Regionals have been instantly coached by Hibbert.Freshmanqualified within the 110M Hurdles with a time of 13.87 in the course of the Southland Championships – the second greatest time in each the Southland, and state of Louisiana.certified within the 100M following a mark of 10.13 additionally set on the Southland Championships.51.19 within the 400M Hurdles received the Southland Championship within the occasion and certified him for the East Regional as properly., and Sloan additionally certified for the NCAA East Regional’s 4×100 competitors after their time of 39.75 at LSU’s Alumni Gold. The foursome ran properly in chilly and windy situations in Jacksonville and ended up one spot wanting qualifying for the NCAA Nationwide Championships.Ten faculty data have been damaged by student-athletes who have been instantly beneath Hibbert’s steerage final season. In the course of the indoor campaignset the varsity document for the 200M, Sloan set the varsity document for the 400M,set the document for the triple leap, and freshmanset the varsity data for each the triple and lengthy leap.In the course of the out of doors marketing campaign Sloan set the varsity document for the 400M Hurdles,and Smith set the varsity data for the Lengthy Bounce and Triple Bounce respectively, and the ladies’s 4×100 workforce consisting of, Inexperienced,and Alowonle set a brand new mark in that self-discipline. Alowonle set a brand new out of doors lengthy leap document as properly – her third faculty document throughout an impressive freshman marketing campaign beneath Hibbert.Alowonle was topped Southland Indoor Champion within the lengthy leap, and Sloan was topped Southland Outside Champion within the 400M Hurdles.Hibbert was additionally a part of a training workers that guided the Privateer girls’s workforce to 98 factors and a 3rd place end on the 2023 Southland Outside Championships – the most effective end and factors complete by both a males’s or girls’s program at any convention championship in program historical past. The UNO girls’s fourth place end with 87 factors in the course of the Southland Indoor Championships additionally marks a program greatest.”I owe a giant thanks to Tim Duncan and Kim Gallow for trusting me to step into this position and lead this program. Moreover, I need to thankfor permitting me to be part of the success he is had throughout his time right here. He has been an amazing pal, mentor and advocate all through this course of. I sit up for persevering with the usual of excellence that has been established by him and by these student-athletes.I consider on this workforce, this workers, and the imaginative and prescient we’ve for the New Orleans Cross Nation and Observe & Area applications as we work to be on the prime of the Southland Convention and the NCAA” mentioned Hibbert.Previous to his arrival at UNO, Hibbert was a volunteer coach for the Indiana Hoosiers. He was instrumental within the improvement of First Group All-American sprinter Rikkoi Brathwaite. Throughout his lone season in Bloomington, Braithwaite completed second within the NCAA Indoor Championships with a 60M time of 6.52 – an Indiana faculty document.An excellent collegiate runner, Hibbert was an All-Large West Choice in 2019 within the 4×100 at CSUN. Profitable not simply on the observe, however within the classroom as properly Hibbert was a three-time All-Educational Large West Honoree throughout all three of his years with the Matadors.Hibbert earned his Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with a Focus in Sports activities Research from CSUN in 2020. He graduated Magna Cum Laude and was on the Dean’s Listing from 2017-2020. A recipient of the Large Ten’s put up graduate scholarship, Ben earned his Grasp’s of Science in Kinesiology with a Focus in Sport and Teaching Science from Indiana with 4.0 GPA in Might of 2022.will stay because the Assistant Throws coach for the Privateers for his second season, and an Affiliate Head Coach for the New Orleans Distance Program shall be named in the end.Preserve updated with all the pieces New Orleans Cross Nation and Observe & Area. Observe @PrivateersTFXC on Twitter, @PrivateersTFXC on Instagram, like /PrivateersTFXC on Fb and subscribe to the UNOPrivateers YouTube channel.
