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Jim Allott

Adirondack native Jim Allott, who begins his fifth year as Clarkson's cross country running head coach and 10th season as Nordic ski coach.  Coach Allott hopes to transfer his success with Clarkson's Division III nationally ranked nordic ski team to the running program.
Allott, a Potsdam High School science instructor, possesses a great deal of coaching and training experience.  He has served as the varsity high school track coach for eight seasons and head swim coach for 13 years.

In 2007, Allott spearheaded efforts to host Clarkson's first major cross country event, the Liberty League Championships.  The event drew over 250 athletes.  In preparation for the race, Coach Allott supervised major improvments to Clarkson's XC trails and designed a new trail linking campus to the nearby wooded trails.  Coach Allott also hopes to make use of a new local rubberized track for team speed workouts.

As an avid endurance athlete, he continues to participate in kayaking, mt. biking and running races and is currently training for a 50 mile trail ultramarathon this summer.  Besides completing the NYC, Vermont City and Boston Marathons, he has also competed in the Iron Man Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii (1999) and represented the US in masters cycling in Russia.  In the summer of 2008, he competed in two 50k trail races, winning his age group at the Green Lakes Endurance Race.  In November 2008, he placed in the top 7% of all runners in the Philadelphia marathon.  Coach Allott, his wife Kathy and son Kevin, make their home in Potsdam.