John Dagata - Assistant Coach - Staff Directory

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John Dagata

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
Phone:
(515) 294-7345

John Dagata enters his second season as the throws coach for the track and field team. In Dagata, Iowa State head track and field coach Corey Ihmels hired a proven throws coach for the Cyclone program. Dagata came to Iowa State after six successful seasons as jumps, multi-event and throws coach at California-Santa Barbara.

In 2007, Dagata protégés Amy Happanen and Eugene Bradley both earned All-America honors for the Gauchos in the hammer throw. In total, Dagata’s UCSB athletes earned eight Big West Conference individual championships, set seven school records and a pair of Big West Conference records. His student-athletes recorded 52 all-time top-10 performances in the UCSB record book. Gaucho competitors under Dagata qualified nine different times for the NCAA Championships and qualified for NCAA regional competition 46 times.

Dagata’s coaching efforts contributed to UC-Santa Barbara winning its first ever Big West Conference team title in 2005. Dagata was a participant in the IAAF Moscow Regional Development Hammer Throwing Seminar in Hungary in 2003. He also attended the Training Methodology in the Power Speed event at the Canadian Athletics Coaching Center in 2005 and the Technical Analysis in the Throws event there in 2006. Dagata is a USATF Level II certified coach in the throwing, jumping and sprinting events.

As a competitor, the native of Lancaster, Calif., was a Big Sky Conference champion at Cal State-Northridge in the 35-pound weight throw and ranked among the top-35 competitors in the U.S. in the hammer throw in 2003 and among the top 26 nationally in 2004, where he earned a U.S. Olympic Trials “B” Standard effort. He earned his bachelor’s degree with honors in sociology from Cal State-Northridge in 2000.