Stan Lambros
Cross Country – Track & Field
Coaching background
Coach
Lambros was a three-sport athlete in high school, and he was a team
member/captain on two (1982, 1983) Maryland High School State Champion
Track teams. After high school, he attended Loyola
College, Maryland, where he was a member of the first team in school
history to qualify for the NCAA Soccer Tournament – That team beat #1
ranked Virginia, before losing to eventual National Champion, Duke (2-1)
in the NCAA Quarter Finals. During this time, Lambros learned the importance of team.
Shortly after obtaining his master’s degree in Education, Counseling Psychology in 1991, Lambros began his coaching career. He
assumed the Head Coaching duties for Cross Country and Track &
Field at Milford Mill High School in Maryland, where he was privileged
to guide the cross country program to a state birth and coach Maryland
State Champion, Mike Mamo.
In 1994,
Lambros moved to Colorado Springs, where he tried his hat at coaching
college, elementary, and high school athletes in soccer, volleyball,
cross country, and track. It did not take long for Lambros
to move his coaching talents to Cheyenne Mountain High School, where he
took over as the distance coach for the track teams and assistant coach
of the soccer team. Since 1994, Lambros and his wife
(Karen Scott) have guided the distance athletes at Cheyenne Mountain,
and slowly developed a program that competes for individual and team
honors every season.
During his
time as an assistant coach, Lambros helped build the distance program to
one that recognizes the importance of team and the focus necessary to
become an elite athlete in Colorado. Since taking over the
helm of the distance program eighteen years ago, Cheyenne Mountain High
School has qualified athletes for state track every season.
During
the “early years” with Lambros and Scott, the track teams won four
Regional Championships and hundreds of individuals, such as Stephen
Wills, Jared Klajenbart, Lauren Rosenbaum, Natalie Mesce, Fred
Rudesheim, Steven Johnson, Joy O’Hare, and J.P. Taxman helped shape the
delicate balance between the team concept and individual performance. All
mentioned athletes where either school record holders or state
champions, but more importantly, they all were members of championship teams. The 2006 Regional Track Title sweep established the TEAM traditions that still exist within CMHS Cross Country and Track today.
With their dedication to each other and to the sport, hundreds of CMHS
XC/Track athletes have benefited from the strong legacy left in their
wake.
In 2006, Lambros became the Head Coach of the Boys and Girls Cross Country and Track & Field teams. Since
his induction as the Head Cross Country Coach at CMHS, Lambros has been
selected (locally and State -2010) as the Coach of the Year in every
season. As the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 Coach of
the Year, Lambros credits his teams, as they went on to win multiple
League, Regional and State Titles in both Boy’s and Girl’s Cross Country
and Track.
2010 marked
the pinnacle in a natural progression as the Indian’s went on to win the
Colorado State Championship in Boy’s Cross Country, Girl’s Cross
Country, Boy’s Track, and Snowshoe. Lambros has contributed to eighteen Colorado State Championship, three national championship performances and sixteen All- Americans during his career.
Coaching Philosophy
Coach
Lambros’ program goals include developing young people to value hard
work, respect others and learn to contribute to the greater good. Lambros enjoys the challenge of developing a team concept, and his training system develops individual athletes through a systematic, patient approach. If you’re looking for a short cut or quick results, this is not the program for you. The gains acquired through patience and consistency are always greater than the “quick fix.” One
will not find any shallow promises or guarantees’ with Lambros, but you
will find respect for high school life, team, training properly, and
treating others well.
Lambros
will be the first to tell you that he did not invent the science of
training humans to run, and he is clear that he is "standing on the
backs of coaching giants" when it comes to training methods.
Lydiard, Wetmore, O’Sullivan, Johnson, Newton, Gambetta and Vigil are
among the many coaching pioneers, with proven track records, that he
views as instrumental in helping design his training program for high
school athletes.
Education
B.A. Sociology
1979-1983
Archbishop Curley High School
Coaching Experience
2006 – 2012
Cheyenne Mountain High School Cross Country and Track & Field; Head Coach
1995 – 2006
Cheyenne Mountain High School; Assistant Coach Track & Field
1996 – 2005
Cheyenne Mountain High School; Assistant Coach Boys’ Soccer
1997
Glenelg High School; Assistant Coach for Cross Country; Track & Field
1994- 1996
Colorado College; Assistant Coach Men’s Soccer
1989- 1991
Loyola College; Graduate Assistant Coach (Recruiting and Scheduling)
Clinics, Camps and Certifications
