Kirk Reynolds, the women's cross country and track coach, has been at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges since 1989. Reynolds earned a psychology degree from Lewis and Clark College in Oregon, where he competed in track and cross country. He has an M.S. in cognitive psychology from The Claremont Graduate School. From 1986 to 1989, Reynolds was an assistant coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, where he coached the men's and women's distance runners.
Reynolds has twice been selected as the NCAA III West Region Track and Field Coach of the Year, and he has been a SCIAC Coach of the Year seven times in cross country and track and field. He is a USATF Level I certified coach, and is also a Correspondent for 'Track and Field News' magazine. During Spring 2004, he traveled on sabbatical to Kenya in East Africa to study the wildly successful men and women distance runners there. He lives in Claremont with his wife Carla Jackson (a Pomona-Pitzer assistant coach and 800m/1500m runner at Cal Berkeley) and daughter Kalinda and son Caden.
Reynolds is a Professor of Physical Education and
teaches activity classes in weight training, wallyball,
running/jogging, tennis, ultimate frisbee, aqua-fit, and wellness
education.
Coach Harris began coaching track & field at Pomona-Pitzer in 1999. A 1998 graduate of Pitzer College, Coach Harris, a USA Level 1 certified coach, is an exceptional sprint/hurdle/relay coach for both the Men’s and Women’s Track & Field teams.
While competing for Pomona-Pitzer from 1994-1998, Coach Harris started at guard for the women’s basketball team in the winter, and competed in the sprints, hurdles and relays for the women’s track & field team in the spring.
In track & field, Coach Harris earned six SCIAC titles – three each in the 100 hurdles (1995, 1996, 1998) and 400 hurdles (1995, 1997, 1998). Only a small number of SCIAC women have earned as many individual titles as Coach Harris. In addition, she was a part of SCIAC champion 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams for Pomona-Pitzer.
Coach Harris’s best hurdle times of 15.04 in the 100 hurdles and 64.18 in the 400 hurdles as a senior stand #2 and #3 on the Sagehen all-time lists, and qualified her to the 1998 Division III National Championships.
Coach Harris was a Team Captain during both her
junior and senior years for both basketball and track and field,
and was named as the Most Valuable Player her senior year for both
the basketball and track & field teams.
Coach Mittino attended UC San Diego from
1999-2003 where she was a member and a captain of the track and
field team. As part of the pole vault squad, Coach Mittino
was a NCAA All-Academic athlete each year and qualified for the
National meet. In 2000, 2002 and 2003 she placed in the top
three at the CCAA conference meet. She is on the top ten list
for women at UCSD with a personal best of 11'6.5".
Coach Mittino began coaching at Claremont High School in 2004 and
joined the Pomona-Pitzer coaching staff in 2008 where she coaches
men's and women's vault.
