2023-2024 marks the fifth season at WPI as an assistant track and field coach for Jason Weber. Weber oversees the success of the jumps squad, including the pole vault and combined events
In 2022, Weber's student-athletes performance was highlighted during the outdoor season and was led by a ninth-place finish at the NCAA National Championships and a second-consecutive NEWMAC Women's team title.
Katy Nippert '22 led Weber's crew setting a new NEWMAC long jump record and school record. Nippert also won the NEICAAA New England meet and held the longest mark in the NCAA with a jump of 6.06m before earning NCAA All-American and National Runner-up status in the long jump. Earning USTFCCCA All-Region honors in the process. On the men's side, Weber coached Matthew Catuccio to a NEWMAC championship in the High Jump with a jump of 1.90m. Catuccio went on to earn All-New England honors in the High jumps. Andrew Sifferlen placed third and garnered All-New England honors in the decathlon.
The indoor campaign was led once again by Nippert setting a new indoor school record with a jump of 5.88m. Nippert set a facility and a championship record to earn All-New England distinction, D3 New England Field Athlete of the Year, and USTFCCCA Field Athlete of the year. The graduate standout went on to earn All-America honors, her first as an individual, finishing seventh in the nation in the long jump with a leap of 5.58m collecting USTFCCCA regionals honors in the process.
Weber coached All-New England indoor honorees Andrew Whitney, Andrew Sifferlen, and Mike Reilly. Whitney was fifth in the long jump (21-10.75), and Sifferlen (4227 points) and Reilly (4095 points) were fifth and eighth in the heptathlon. Earning USTFCCCA All-Regional honors were Andrew Sifferlen in the heptathlon and Matthew Catuccio in the High Jump.
Despite the global pandemic, Coach Weber's group experienced tremendous success during the 2021 outdoor season, en route to helping both the men's and women's programs win the NEWMAC Championship. He saw two of his athletes set new program-best marks, including Abby McGahey in the triple jump (11.66m/38-3) and Katy Nippert in the long jump (5.54m/18-2.25), each would go on to win their respective events at the NEWMAC Championship. He also helped guide senior, Elizabeth Kirschner to the second-highest point total in the heptathlon in program history. A feat that earned her All-Region laurels by the USTFCCCA, along with Andrew Sifferlen (decathlon) and Bridget Wirtz (pole vault). Finally, his men's high jump squad would finish the season with the eighth-highest clearance average (1.91m/6-3.25) in all of NCAA Division III.
In his first year with the program, Weber saw his vaulters perform at a championship level, qualifying three men and one woman for the Division III New England Championships. He helped guide Johann Bradley '21 not only to the New England title, with a new school record (4.85m/15-11) but Bradley would go on to earn All-American honors, the first for the men's program in that event.
Weber arrived at Boynton Hill after an impressive 13-year stint as an assistant at Westfield State. At WSU he coached men’s and women’s school record holders in the pole vault with jumps of 16-5.50 and 12-9.50. Weber also has coached 32 men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor pole vault champions, including the conference record holders in both the men's and women’s indoor and outdoor championships. In all, he coached 10 NCAA qualifiers and NCAA All-Americans in the pole vault (2012 men's outdoor, 2013 men's indoor) and (women’s 2018 outdoor).
No stranger to the NEWMAC, Weber earned his undergraduate degree in business from Springfield He was a four-year member of the Springfield College track and field team, competing in the 55 and 100-meter dashes, as well as the 400-meter hurdles. Weber also coaches at Patriot Pole Vault and is a founding member of Patriot Pole Vault West.
Weber holds a USATF Level 1 coaches certification, along with Jumping Events and Strength & Conditioning certification from the USTFCCCA.
