volunteer assistants/Director of Operations/student manager KAREN
leah
Volunteer Distance Coach First season Humboldt ‘81
director of track operations First season UCLA ‘07
COSTELLO
Karen Costello enters her first season as a volunteer coach with the women’s team after having coached high school and community college athletes for the past 20 years. She coached in Salinas, CA at Notre Dame HS, Salinas HS and Hartnell Community College. While at Hartnell, her athletes won the West Coast Conference title and the Northern California Championship, helping her garner West Coast Conference Coach of the Year accolades. As an athlete at Humboldt State University, Costello set four school records and was named to the All-Far Western Conference track team on two occasions. She also ran cross country for Hartnell College as a 31-year old mother of two and helped her team win the California Small College Championship in 1991 as the No. 1 runner. She held course records as well and earned AllWCC and All-NorCal team honors. Costello is currently working on a Masters degree in Sports and Exercise Psychology from Argosy University. She earned her B.A. in Journalism in 1981 from Humboldt State. She has two children, A.J. who is a senior pre-med major at the University of San Diego and Alycia, a senior human performance major at USC. She resides in Malibu with her three dogs.
Katy
viuf Volunteer Pole Vault Coach First season UCLA ‘10
Katy Viuf enters her first season on the coaching staff at UCLA after having concluded her Bruin pole vaulting career in 2010. She will serve as a volunteer coach with the vaulters in 2011. Viuf capped off her career with a fourth-place finish in the vault at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and also posted the No. 4 mark all-time in school history (14-2). She also finished in a tie for ninth at the 2010 USATF Senior National Championships (141.25). Viuf was a three-time NCAA Outdoor competitor and Pac-10 finalist in the vault. She began training in the event in 2007 after previously being a cheerleader for the Bruins. Viuf graduated in 2010 with a Bachelors Degree in Physiological Science.
waller
Leah Waller enters her second year as Director of Operations for both the men’s and women’s track and field squads. Her duties include - overseeing the day-to-day operations of the track and field teams, serving as co-meet director, arranging team travel, submitting meet entries and act as the point person for the teams within the athletic department. In addition to her duties with track, she is the administrative support for men’s and women’s soccer, baseball, and men’s and women’s tennis. Waller also works with Housing Services to coordinate all student-athlete on-campus housing. Waller graduated from UCLA in March of 2007 with a bachelors degree in Economics and International Development studies. While a student at UCLA she worked for athletic tutoring in Covel Commons.
astra
felder student team manager
molly
mahony student team manager
2011 UCLA WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
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