Matt Gittermann currently serves as Head Cross-Country and Assistant Track & Field Coach in charge of the distance events at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Matt has been running competitively since sixth grade when he learned the value of training for races by running a four-mile race on a whim, then crying to his parents about the pain after. He started running for Lewiston-Porter High School (near Niagara Falls, NY) in seventh grade, and continued his career at Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland.

He estimates that he has run about four hundred races in his lifetime ranging from 100m to half-marathons to road races to a decathlon. He currently has a USATF Level II track certification in endurance and a USATF Level I Certification. This summer he will be one of 20 attending the USATF/USOC Emerging Elite Endurance Coaching Clinic at the Olympic Training Center and he will also be getting his USATF Level II Certification in Sprints/Hurdles/Relays.

He has also worked with Mount Hebron High School, Hammond High School, the former Maryland Track Club, and the Summer Striders High School Cross Country Program.