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Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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CoolMotivationalKnowledgeableDevelops Team Beyond The FieldPassionate About Coaching

I’ve only been at Hofstra for a short time, but I’ve already seen improvement in my running. Coach Vince really knows what he’s talking about and understands how to help his athletes get better. On top of being a great coach, he’s also a great guy and someone who genuinely cares about the team. He’s a huge family guy, and you can tell he wants the team to have that same kind of bond and really be one group.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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AccessibleBelieves In YouCreates A Great Team CultureGreat LeaderKnows The Game

Coach Giambanco is a coach that is easy to talk to and understand that he only wants the best for you. He has taken athletes to the next level and understands running to a great degree. He’s the kind of coach that makes you happy that you chose to come to Hofstra University.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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HonestBelieves In YouDevelops Team Beyond The FieldGreat Communicator

Coach Vince is a great coach but beyond that a great human being. He invests deeply into his team not only at the athletic level but the emotional level. He believes in his athletes and gives them the tools to succeed. Not only from an athletic standpoint but from a personal perspective he developes the individual as a person and is dedicated to seeing the growth of his team. This is rare in the NCAA, the atmosphere he creates is highly unique and a great place to be.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Dedicated to asking my kid questions and getting to know him. Passionate coach

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Coach was extremely knowledgeable and clearly knew how to train runners the right way, from workouts to race prep. He pushed us to improve while still caring about the team and the sport. A lot of the criticism you see doesn’t reflect my experience at all. I was on the team with some of the people who left negative reviews, and honestly their behavior was very immature and not a fair representation of the program.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Once again, Hofstra XC/ Track has produced another All-American. This makes 5 over the last few years. This program is built on hard work and the pursuit of excellence. If you want to be great, you will love being part of this program. The improvement curves from High School to College of team members is massive. This is what the program has accomplished over the last few years: -Men's Outdoor Track and Field Division 1-AAA Team National Champions (2021) • Men's CAA Cross Country Champions 2025 (First in program history) • 5 All-Americans • 2 Regional Cross Country Champions • 1 Regional Track and Field Champion • 4 NCAA All-Region Student-Athletes • 11 NCAA Qualifiers • 4 CAA Cross Country Champions, 4 CAA Track Champions -CAA 10K Record -CAA Championship 10K record. • 2 CAA Track Athletes of the year - 4 CAA XC Athletes of the year • 1 AlL-USA U20 Performer • 33 All-CAA Award Winners • 5 CAA Team Academic Excellence Awards for the highest team GPA in the conference -Fastest All-Time NCAA Marathon Alumni

Women's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Women's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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As an alumni, I could not be more proud of the growth of this program. Yesterday, Hofstra registered a top 10 finish at the regional championship as a team (highest in program history by 8 spots) and produced ANOTHER Northeast Region Individual Champion who will be heading to Nationals next week to represent the PRIDE. Something special continuing to build on Long Island. Go to Hofstra if you want to take your running to the next level and be part of this special program that continues to prove the haters wrong.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Champions!!!!! Hofstra XC is now your CAA Cross Country Champions. If you want to be great - come to Hofstra. If you want to complain - go somewhere else!

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Choosing to run for Coach and this program was the best decision of my young life. I had an incredible experience that brought growth and meaning to my life and has shaped me to this day. I wouldn’t have changed a thing. If you want to be a part of something special, choose Coach Giambanco and Hofstra Track/ XC.

Women's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Women's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Absolutely terrible coach. He has no knowledge about the sport whatsoever. Rarely lets athletes race, making them drop out of races. Hes very rude, and inconsiderate. He isnt understanding or supportive. He doesnt care if u have injuries or mental illnesses. You could show him xrays showing your injuries and he has accused them of being fake! DO NOT GO HERE!!

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Great coach! Caring and honest!

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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I am writing this review to share my extremely negative experience with Coach Vincent Giambanco. It's disheartening to see how he manipulates athletes into writing glowing reviews by directly asking for them. This tactic speaks volumes about his character and the lack of genuine feedback he values. Coach Giambanco consistently devalues his athletes, fostering an environment where personal growth and well-being take a backseat to his own ambitions. His rigidity and lack of understanding when life circumstances interfere with training are appalling. If you have a job interview or something of mere importance, expect to be made to feel guilty. It's as if he believes running is the only thing that matters, and personal responsibilities can simply be ignored. It’s also important to highlight the coach's limited success. While he boasts about the achievements of Alex Masai, his overall coaching record is underwhelming. A coach's success is measured by the development of the entire team, not just one standout athlete. If you're looking for a coach who genuinely cares about your development as an athlete and as a person, I strongly advise you to look elsewhere. Coach Giambanco's focus seems to be more on self-promotion than on the well-being of his athletes. Save yourself the disappointment and find a coach who prioritizes your growth and supports you through life's challenges.

Women's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Women's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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The team culture here is amazing. Coach pours his heart and soul into scrapping and clawing for continued elevation of the program. The team attracts recruits that are hungry for success and understand the sacrifice and disciple required to do so. The bread and butter of the program is the weekly Long Run at Rockefeller State Park every Sunday morning. Enjoy your Long Run with teammates climbing one hill after another on beautiful dirt carriage path trails along side your brothers and sisters. When you are done, stuff your face with bagels!! Go Pride!

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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DirectKnowledgeableGreat LeaderPassionate About CoachingRespectful To Players

Coach take an effort based approach to training, he teaches the team how to monitor their body and take an enjoyable/ holistic approach to training. He emphasizes a big picture strategy where the goal is consistency and gradual improvement. He stresses the importance of student athletes communicating when they are over fatigued or have an ache or pain and adjusts training daily around individual. Each student athlete receives an individual training program each week, there is obviously overlaps as we train as a team and run a range of weekly mileage/ paces. These programs also include the practice times and locations so you know what to expect for the week and can plan effectively. There is a former member of the team that has been writing negative reviews and trying to bring the program down, don't be fooled, this is a special program and coach has lead this team to new heights. If you are a distance runner looking for a passionate team and Coach, come to Hofstra - you will be happy you did so.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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For the second straight year the team has earned the highest GPA in the conference of all track teams.

Women's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Women's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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The pursuit of excellence. Coach and this team is not for everyone. It's for those that hold themselves to a high standard. For those that take care of business. For those that strive to be the best version of themselves. Coach emphasizes behavior. He expects self discipline and buy in. If you commit to the proccess you will improve by leaps and bounds and be part of a special team.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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If you love a nice sunrise you will love Coach :) Coach believe in a rise and grind lifestyle - live a healthy lifestyle, early to bed/ early to rise and most importantly approach training with all of your heart. Love your teammates and love the process. 4 years goes by fast, choose Hofstra and Coach and you will have a very special experience pursuing your passion with like minded teammates and coaches.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Saddening to have Vince Giambanco as my coach, in fact, it’s sad to have a coach you never saw until it’s time for a meet. I was an athlete in the track and field program. I went through many assistant coaches during my time that merely did not care one bit about the program. They lacked experience, ambition, and pure knowledge about the sport. For coach Vince, he acted childish at the meets and tried to laugh with other coaches or parents while his athletes underperformed.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Unfortunately, this coach's performance falls far below expectations. Their disregard for their athletes mental well-being, abuse of power, and narcissistic behavior create a toxic environment. Furthermore, their closed-mindedness and poor knowledge of the sport result in unfair treatment of athletes and questionable training decisions. It's evident that the team would benefit from either self-training or a new coach who is competent and fair. Additionally, leveraging athletes' past successes they had no hand in coaching is disingenuous. Ultimately, their coaching style not only fails to improve athletes' performance but also puts them at risk of injury

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Coach Giambanco has taken over what was maybe the worst program in the NCAA in 2014 and has lead it to becoming. a destination for competitive distance runners. There is strong comradery amongst both the men’s and the women’s team and this is something that does not happen by accident. He treats everyone with respect and does his best to guide everyone to success while always putting the team first and holding a high standard for behavior and attitude. Coach Giambanco never, ever makes it about himself – you won’t see him on social media and if anyone tries to shine the light on him, he quickly steers it back to the team, staff, and support staff. Coach Giambanco understands it takes a team of people to accomplish anything and is humble enough to understand that the program is powered by man power, and the more strong characters the better. He is very direct about what he expects and understands that it may not be the right program for everyone. If you want to have an incredible college experience and be surrounded by great people – come here, just know the standard and expectations are high. Only good team members are wanted.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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If you run Cross country you hate him because you have to deal with his awful coaching, but if you run Track you still hate him but slightly less because you’ll never see him. He also talks like he’s AI generated.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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From my personal experience, I didn’t enjoy him as my coach when I ran here. He only focused on the top runners which are usually from the cross country team. If you aren’t a top performer you won’t get that much attention even if you show you want to grow as an athlete. He never put actual time into a training plans. A lot of training was copied and pasted from one another’s and from previous weeks. Lack of originality. There was no considerations that we were also students. Up unnecessarily early to train and by mid day I’m falling asleep in classes. I’ve seen multiple athletes get hurt because they are overworked. No one needs to run 100 mile weeks to race a 10k. The fact he struggles to hold onto a full team and keep everyone healthy shows part of why he isn’t fit to be a D1 coach.He’s gone through multiple assistants in my time there because he can’t work well with others. If you don’t agree with him it’s a problem even when he’s wrong which is 95% of the time. He never put time into the track team. He made the assistant coach create our workouts and manage the team. It was known as the “developmental group”. The cross country and track team was kept separate when it came to training and the teams were small already so why not make them smaller right? I was genuinely surprised by all the good reviews but as I read them they are just people he chose to reach out to, to write a good one. I think he’s a good person which I gave him a bonus star on caring but in my 4 years at Hofstra I’ve yet to hear a positive experience between him and an athlete. The team on the other hand is how you make of it. I enjoyed my team and they made it bearable. We didn’t like coach so it’s common thing we bonded over even tho there was a separation between the mens and girls team. Mainly became a maturity thing.

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Violates NCAA rules, abuse of power, narcissistic, extremely closed minded, lacks common knowledge of the sport and poor training choices, unfair to most athletes and favors others, the team would be better off training ourselfs or with a new coach who knows what he's doing, he also uses athletes past success to show off the school when he never coached them before when they were fast, none of his athletes get faster instead they get injured!, do not train with this coach, you would be better off training your self with YouTube videos :/

Men's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Men's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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Coach Giambanco, can not deal with the truth. He has read all of the bad reviews and instead of listening to them and trying to change, he has been calling up every person, athlete, and contact in his phone to get them to write a good review about him. He is dismissive and can never admit his faults especially when the change is in his best interest. He bosses his assistant coaches around and treats them like puppets, which is why there has not been a single one who stays for more than 2 years. His now assistant coach has her hand so far up her butt that she can not treat her athletes like humans.

Women's Cross Country/Track & FieldVincent Giambanco

Women's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field

Hofstra University

NCAA DI • Coastal Athletic Association | CAA

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As a parent of 4 college student/athletes and a 40 year career in public education and law enforcement ; I fully endorse Coach Vincent Giambanco. When my daughter had narrowed her search to a small North East D1 college and one that embraced academic prowess and a competitive cross country program ; Hofstra University was a must visit. After contacting the school and a recruiting visit at my home by Coach Vince and staff, it was clear that this man embodied all the qualities necessary to promote a University , a competitive and challenging classroom and campus life for my daughter, while putting our entire family at ease with the knowledge he would watch over her as if she were his daughter. Once at Hofstra my daughters' transition was smooth and in the classroom the student /teacher ratio was low and challenging and Coach Vince was always available to help with even the smallest things on and off the field. I can conclude by saying that Coach Vince is a sincere and honest person. He challenged my daughter on the field to be the best she could be and taught her leadership by example. My daughter was a five year runner and captain for team Hofstra and was a High Honored student for all semesters through graduation. BEST OF LUCK COACH AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO.