Greg Phillips
	Assistant Coach/Distance gphillips@whittier.edu (562) 907-4975

Whittier College track & field coaching staff in 2009. He is also the head coach of the WC cross country program.

Phillips enjoyed 11 years as the head coach of the track & field program from 1996 to 2006 but returned to his previous role as the distance coach at the start of the 2007 season.

During his time with the purple and gold he has seen over 20 qualifications for nationals from the Poets.

While Phillips has been on the staff at Whittier he has coached 65 percent of Whittier's men's and women's athletes listed on the all-time Top 10 runners for distances 800 meters and longer.

All in all in his coaching he has seen 34 inductees to the Whittier College Athletics Hall of Fame (cross country) and coached the Poets to their first ever national championships appearance by any Whittier women's program (cross country).

Phillips competed as a middle-distance/distance runner at the Division I level and can often be found running with members of the Poets.

Phillips holds a Master's Degree in Physical Education and has taught in the Department of Kinesiology & Leisure Studies.