Larry Kimball returns to USCB Athletics after a six-year retirement and will join coach Terica Harris' staff to work with the distance runners.
Kimball has been part of the USCB athletics department since its inception and has overseen the launch and growth of the men's and women's cross country and track programs.
Starting with just three cross country members in USCB’s first season of athletics in the fall of 2007, Kimball built teams that have grown significantly in numbers and quality. During the short period of athletics at USCB, Kimball’s teams have produced numerous All-Sun Conference performers and national championship qualifiers in both cross country and track and field.
Kimball's expertise as a race organizer also has served USCB well, as the Sand Sharks' home course in Hardeeville has played host to the Sun Conference Cross Country Championships in 2008, 2010, and 2013, and the Sand Shark Invitational has grown into one of the biggest races in the Southeast with nearly 40 schools competing annually.
During his time at USCB, Kimball has coached six NAIA All-Americans and 17 CoSIDA Academic All-District winners, as well as four Sun Conference Champions of Character award winners.
Prior to coming to USCB, Kimball was the head women's cross country coach at St. Michael's (Vt.) College from 2001-05. During his tenure there, he coached numerous All-Northeast Ten Conference runners, as well as Academic All-Conference student-athletes. In each of his five seasons at St. Michael's, Kimball's teams had the highest GPA of all the school's athletics teams.
Kimball served as the distance coach at the University of Vermont from 1990-98 and helped lead the Catamounts to four team runner-up finishes in the America East Conference. He also coached three NCAA Division I individual national qualifiers and numerous individual New England and America East Conference champions.
Prior to his coaching stint at Vermont, Kimball helped coach the boys cross country team at Burlington High School and the girls team at BFA Fairfax to Vermont state championships.
In addition to his coaching resume, Kimball served as co-director of the Stowe 8-Mile Road Race, which was voted as the 1998 New England Race of the Year by New England Runner magazine. He has also served on the executive committee of the prestigious Key Bank Vermont City Marathon and was on the board of directors of the Green Mountain Athletic Association. Kimball also was a member of the executive committee for the Women’s Division I Cross Country Coaches Association.
Kimball was inducted into the Run Vermont Hall of Fame in 2010 and was also honored by Vermont Governor James Douglas in 2003 as a Vermont Leader for Fitness and Sports for Outstanding Contributions to Physical Fitness and Sports. Kimball was selected to run with the Olympic Torch prior to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
As an athlete, Kimball has competed in races throughout the United States and Canada, including more than 40 marathons. He was also an all-conference and all-state track athlete at Carson Newman College in Tennessee.
Kimball received a bachelor of arts in history from Trinity College in Vermont and a master of science in administration from St. Michael’s College. Kimball retired from Verizon and lives in Bluffton with his wife, Ruth. He has two daughters and two grandsons.
