Kevin Gilhuly is in his ninth season on the University of Dayton track and field staff and shared the 2026 Atlantic 10 Women's Outdoor Track & Field Coach of the Year honor with associate head coach Aaron Gordon after Dayton captured the program's first-ever A-10 outdoor team championship in Fairfax, Va., this May. Gilhuly joined the Flyers as throws coach in November of 2017 and has since been elevated to Associate Head Track and Field Coach. He oversees all five throwing events — shot put, weight throw, discus, hammer and javelin — and serves as the primary recruiter for the throws group.
Under Gilhuly's direction, Dayton's throws program has become one of the most consistent producers of conference championships and all-time top performances in the Atlantic 10. His throwers have won at least eight individual A-10 titles since 2018, populated the program's all-time Top 5 lists across every throwing event, broken school records in the outdoor javelin and the outdoor shot put, and produced the first two Flyers to qualify for the U.S. Track & Field Olympic Team Trials.
The headline of Gilhuly's tenure has been Casey Bogues, a redshirt senior javelin thrower from Red Bank, N.J., who is a four-time Atlantic 10 javelin champion (2021, 2023, 2024, 2025), the school-record holder at 57.41 meters, and one of only two Flyers ever to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships twice. Bogues earned NCAA Second Team All-America honors as a freshman in 2021 after throwing 53.39 meters at the NCAA Championships, returned to the meet in 2024 to earn Honorable Mention All-America honors, and qualified for the U.S. Track & Field Olympic Team Trials in both 2021 and 2024, finishing eighth in the javelin final at the 2024 Trials. She has also been a 2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team selection and a multi-year USTFCCCA Collegiate All-Academic and Atlantic 10 All-Academic honoree. Gilhuly also coached former UD volunteer assistant Chantae McMillan to a javelin qualifying mark for the 2021 Olympic Trials.
The senior class signed in 2022 — Rebekah Conrad, Luisa Himmler, Daniela Peralta, Anna Yater and Jillian Yates — has driven the throws group's growth into Gilhuly's most decorated period at Dayton. Conrad, a native of Butler, Ohio, was the meet-high individual scorer at the 2026 A-10 Outdoor Championships with 26 points, winning the shot put (13.76m PR) and the discus (47.41m PR, fifth all-time at UD) and taking bronze in the hammer throw (56.35m). Yater finished second in the shot put at the same meet (13.28m PR). Senior Maggie Hofner, who entered the 2026 postseason ranked fourth in the A-10 in the outdoor discus (47.37m), and Conrad were Dayton's representatives at the Sycamore Open in pursuit of NCAA East Regional qualification. Peralta and Bogues represented the Flyers in the javelin at the 2025 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.
Earlier in Gilhuly's tenure, Jenni Rossi '18 was a two-time Atlantic 10 Most Outstanding Field Performer and set Dayton's school record in the outdoor shot put. Lily Cook '18 was the 2018 Atlantic 10 outdoor javelin champion and an NCAA East Preliminary qualifier. Alyssa Ramstetter '19 won A-10 gold in the hammer throw at the 2019 outdoor championships, and Taylor Flight was a two-time all-conference performer at the indoor championships in 2019 and 2020.
A native of Wallingford, Conn., Gilhuly came to Dayton from Sacred Heart University, where he helped his teams to the Northeast Conference Indoor and Outdoor Championships in 2015-16 and 2016-17, coached two NCAA East Regional qualifiers in the hammer and javelin, and was part of the 2016 and 2017 NEC Coaching Staff of the Year. Prior to Sacred Heart, Gilhuly was at Southern Connecticut State University, where he guided the men's and women's programs to the 2015 Northeast-10 Conference Championship as well as a program-first NEICAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship. He produced NCAA Division II All-Americans in the men's shot put, discus and hammer there, along with 11 All-NEICAA honors.
Gilhuly graduated from Monmouth University with a B.A. in 2013 and an M.S. in 2014. As a Hawk, he was a two-time USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic Team selection, a two-time NCAA Division I East Regional Qualifier in the javelin, a 2nd-Team All-NEC honoree, a member of three indoor and outdoor team conference championships, and team captain for both the 2013-14 indoor and outdoor seasons.
He holds multiple USTFCCCA certifications, including the Throwing Event Specialist and Multi-Event Specialist credentials, a USATF Level One Coach, a USA Weightlifting Certified Coach and a Certified Strength and Condition Specialist (CSCS) through the NSCA.
