Track and Field Coaching
Staff
Head Coach Lindie Kane
Lindie Kane begins her 12th season as the head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country program and head coach of track and field at College of the Canyons.
During her cross country tenure, Kane has coached more than 50 All-Western State Conference athletes, 10 All-Southern California honorees, three All-State runners and one JC All-American. Along with the many accolades, she has helped at least one individual qualify for the state Cross Country Championship Meet every year. The men’s cross country team made its first appearance, since 1970, at the state meet in 2006 and the women have appeared at the same competition in 2000, 2001 and 2006 under the leadership of Kane.
In the past 11 years as head coach of Cougar track and field, Kane has built the program into one of the best in the state. She has coached 15 JC All-Americans and produced 17 women’s school record and nine men’s school records.
The 2007 season was Kane’s best season to date for which she was voted the Western State Conference Track and Field Coach of the Year. The men’s year included back-to-back runner-ups in the Western State Conference with the team winning six individual events along with a 1-2-3 finish in the 200-meter dash. The men’s group also won both relays and the 4x100-meter relay posted the sixth-best time in the nation. As a team, they finished fifth in Southern California, a school best, and 11th at the State Meet.
In 2004, the women saw its best year with Kane leading the way. The squad finished in second place in the Western State, fifth in Southern California and eighth in the state.
A 1989 graduate of California State University, Northridge, Kane was a member of the cross country and track and field team at CSUN, under the direction of four-time Big West Conference Coach of the Year Don Strametz. She earned her bachelor’s of art in physical education in 1992 and completed her master’s of art in education at Azusa Pacific. Kane also holds a California Secondary Single Subject Teaching Credential from CSUN and is a certified United States of America Track and Field Level II Coach.
Kane shares her passion for athletics with her husband Mike, who was a former COC football coach, and their two sons, Doyle and Mikey. Kane and her family reside in Valencia. |