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This is Norm Tate’s first season as an assistant coach at Rowan University. He will instruct the sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers for both the men’s and women’s track and field teams.

Prior to Rowan, Tate was an assistant coach for the Richard Stockton College men’s and women’s track and field teams from 2007-08. Tate worked at the Hilton Hotel & Casino Resort in Atlantic City, NJ from 1986-2006. He was an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) manager. Tate was the head coach of the men’s and women’s track and field team at Hempstead High School in Hempstead, NY from 1981-86. He led the women’s team to the Nassau County Championship in 1985 and 1986. Tate served as an assistant coach for the men’s track team at Manhattan College for two years (1974-76).

Tate provides the Profs with a lot of international competition experience. He was a member of the 1968 United States Olympic Team in the triple jump. Tate captured the United States National Championship in the long jump in 1966, 1969 and 1970. He was the U.S. Champion in the triple jump in 1969, 1970 and 1971.

Tate graduated from North Carolina Central University in 1966 with a bachelor’s of science degree in physical education. He was a member of the Eagles’ track and field teams from 1961-65. During that time, Tate earned NCAA All-American honors three times (1963, 1964 and 1965) and was a two-time NAIA All-American selection (1964 and 1965). In 1964, he was named the Outstanding Athlete at the Penn Relays. At the 1965 NAIA Championships, Tate was selected the meet’s Outstanding Athlete.

In 1985, Tate was inducted into the North Carolina Hall of Fame. He also joined the Penn Relays Hall of Fame in 1994. Tate currently resides in Voorhees, NJ.