Track and Field
- Title:
- Assistant Coach, Distance/Recruiting
- Email:
- venditti@calpoly.edu
Prior to arriving at Cal Poly, Venditti spent a year coaching and competing at Loughborough University in England. While working on his master’s degree in sports management, Venditti participated in the Coaching & Volunteering Academy at Loughborough, giving him the opportunity to work with world-class athletes and mentor some of the best up-and-coming track and cross country prospects in the country. Loughborough is recognized as one of the best universities in the world for sports studies. The school has also won 60 of the last 65 men’s and women’s BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championships, making it the most successful student athletics club in England.
Venditti was a standout track and cross country runner at Monsignor Farrell High in Staten Island, NY from 2013-17, serving as a captain his junior and senior seasons. He went on to compete at SUNY Geneseo, a Division III school in New York, before a ruptured and torn Achilles ended his collegiate career during his freshman season. Venditti has been coaching high school and college athletes ever since.
During the 2018-19 academic year, Venditti was a volunteer track and cross country coach at his alma mater, Monsignor Farrell. He also had a coaching stint at CSI McCown High School in Staten Island before joining the College of Staten Island track and field staff in December 2019 as a volunteer assistant for the Division II school.
Venditti, a Staten Island native, spent two years coaching at College of Staten Island and graduated from St. John’s University in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in sports management.
