Dan Steele
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Born | March 20, 1969 Moline, Illinois, U.S. | (age 55)||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Eastern Illinois University | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Dan Steele (born March 20, 1969) is an American
Athletic career
A native of
Steele also earned a silver medal at the 1999
Coaching career
In 1993, Steele moved from Illinois to Eugene, Oregon to train full-time in track and field. In 2001 he became a volunteer athletics coach for the University of Oregon. In between coaching stints, Steele competed in bobsleigh for the U.S. both in 1998 and 2002. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he earned a bronze medal in the four-man event, a feat that ended a 46-year medal drought for the United States in that sport.
Retiring from bobsleigh after the 2002 Winter Olympics, Steele was formerly the Head Track and Field coach at the University of Northern Iowa. Prior to UNI, Steele was the Associate Head Coach at the University of Oregon. In 2009 Steele was named the National Men's Coach of the Year for helping lead the Oregon men to an NCAA Indoor title. Steele was also named the West Region Women's Coach of the Year in 2009 for helping lead the Oregon women to their first Pacific-10 title since 1992. That same year he coached
In 2015, Dan Steele, whose exemplary resume includes experiences as an Olympic medalist, NCAA champion and head coach, was most recently Iowa State Cyclones’s Men’s & Women’s Associate Head Track & Field coach.[1]
Achievements
Year | Tournament | Venue | Result | Extra |
---|---|---|---|---|
1999 | Pan American Games | Winnipeg, Canada
|
2nd | Decathlon |
World Championships | Seville, Spain
|
8th | Decathlon |
Personal life
Dan's twin brother Darrin Steele is also a bobsledder who competed in the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics.[2]
On July 28, 2017, Steele nearly died from a massive hemorrhagic stroke. He stepped away from coaching after the stroke. Steele spent 2.5 months in the hospital relearning how to walk and talk.
Book
In 2021, Steele published American Steele, a memoir chronicling his life as an athlete, coach, and stroke survivor.
References
- ^ "Steele Named Associate Head Track & Field Coach".
- ^ Doxsie, Don (18 April 2020). "Dan Steele continues to clear hurdles in recovery from stroke". Quad-City Times. Retrieved 18 December 2023.