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Grove City Area High School

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Ben English

Assistant HS Cross Country Coach

Boys/Girls Varsity Cross Country

Coach English is entering his 10th year with the Grove City Cross Country team.  He was hired in the fall of 2007 to help work with the Jr High program proceeded by Coach Dave Blakely.  Coach English worked with the Jr. High from 2007-2012 and joined the high school program in 2013.  As coach of the junior high teams, English had a boys dual meet record of 41-0 and a girls dual meet record of 37-4.  Since joining the high school team in 2013, the boys were Region 2 Champions 2013, 2014, and 2015 and also District 10 Champions in 2013, 2014, and 2015.  The boys team was also 5th at AA states in 2013, runner up in 2014, and 5th place in 2015.  The girls were Region 2 Champions in 2014 and 2015 along with finishing 2nd at 2015 District 10 championships to earn there first state championship berth in program history.

Coach English comes to Grove City from Lakeview High school class of 2002.  He was a four year letter winner in baseball which he pursued in college.  He graduated from California University of Pennsylvania with a bachelors degree in Technology Education in 2006.  He was a student assistant coach for California University of Pennsylvania's baseball team where they were PSAC state champions in 2004 and PSAC west champs in 2006.  His current teaching position is at Grove City Middle School where he teaches Technology and Engineering to 6th through 8th grade students. 

When hired he started running and became "addicted" to the sport.  Coaching was always something English wanted to do and has been a great fit.  Since being hired in 2007 English has completed in over 20 marathons with a personal best of 2:40.06 at The Boston Marathon in 2015 and also won Harrisburg marathon in 2013.  He has run many other race distances stating that he just wants to be able to train and keep up with "most" of his athletes. Prior to being hired he never ran in a race.  He credits the cross country team for being his motivation for running and to pursue his own limits. 

In 2015 Coach English was hired as the Head Track and Field Coach for Grove City where he sent one athlete to states and 34 to districts.  The boys had a season record of 4-3 and the girls were 2-4.  In 2016 the boys track program was 6-0 with region honors and the girls teams set a record of 3-2.  Coach English led 5 girls to state medals in 2016 along with 14 total athletes.

Contact:
Email: english@grovecity.k12.pa.us

Phone: 724-458-8040


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