DOMINICAN TABS SUERO AS NEW WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY AND TRACK AND FIELD COACH

August 20, 2008

DOMINICAN TABS SUERO AS NEW WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY AND TRACK AND FIELD COACH

Orangeburg, NY (8/20/08) Dominican College Director of Athletics, Joe Clinton, has announced the hiring of Abdias Suero as the new Women's Cross Country and Track and Field Coach.

DOMINICAN TABS SUERO AS NEW WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY AND TRACK AND FIELD COACH

Orangeburg, NY (8/20/08) Dominican College Director of Athletics, Joe Clinton, has announced the hiring of Abdias Suero as the new Women's Cross Country and Track and Field Coach.

"We are very excited to have Abdias take over the cross country and track and field programs," Clinton said. "I believe he is the ideal candidate that can mold both these programs into elite Division II teams."

Suero comes to Dominican after spending last year as an assistant coach for the track and field program at Mercy College. Prior to that the was the Head Coach of the Boys' Cross Country and Track and Field teams at Christopher Columbus High School and the Head Coach at George Washington High School.

A graduate of the Pratt Institute, he went on to receive his Doctor in Medicine degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo and his certificate in Physical Education from the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena Santa Domingo.

Suero currently is a Physical Education teacher at Christopher Columbus High School.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement. Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world. Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level. To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.