Hood rounds out coaching staff

Cook to coach throws; Aguilar added as GA

ABILENE - ACU head track and field coach Don D. Hood announced Wednesday that he has completed his coaching staff for the 2006-07 athletics year with the addition of assistant coach Jerrod Cook and graduate assistant coach Cory Aguilar.

Cook - who will coach ACU's throwers - joins the Wilddcat staff after coaching the previous two seasons at McMurry University.

He was a seven-time national qualifier between the indoor weight throw and outdoor hammer.  In 2003, he was a NCAA Division III all-America selection for his performance indoors in the weight throw.  He won five conference titles with the Indians from 2001-04 throwing the hammer and the javelin.  His throw of 59-5.00holds the school's record in the weight throw, while his mark of 188-11.00 is an outdoor record for the hammer throw.

Cook is certified at Level I by the USA Track and Field and also spends time as a personal trainer and helps work summer track and field camps throughout the state.  Cook graduated from McMurry in 2004 with a B.S. in exercise and sports studies and has helped coached three Indians to all-America honors.

Aguilar recently completed his eligibility by finishing fifth at the NCAA Division II outdoor championship meet in the pole vault.  However, it was his four points that gave ACU the men's team national championship.  ACU trailed 77.5.-76 to rival St. Augustine's after the final running event, but Aguilar gave the Wildcats enough points to give them the team title.

In April, Aguilar became the first Wildcat pole vaulter in school history to win four straight LSC titles as he cleared 16-2.75 to win the event. All-time great Billy Olson won the LSC title from 1978-80 and then again in 1982 after he sat out the 1981 season with a broken wrist.

In July, Hood announced that former Texas A&M hurdles and jumps coach Abe Brown had joined the ACU staff.