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TROY, N.Y. – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) has announced its Division III Indoor Track & Field Region award winners and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) intern coach Eric Flores was named Atlantic Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year.

In his first year at Rensselaer, Flores helped two student-athletes to receive NCAA bids in the weight throw, with top-ten marks in the division. The same pair – graduate student Lydia Frangos (Marion, MA/Masconomet Regional) and senior Ivy Muchuma (Nashua, NH/Nashua North) – went 1-2 in the event at the Liberty League and NYSCTC Championships, while finishing 2-3 at the ECAC meet.

A 2012 graduate of Cal Lutheran, Flores was the school's Athlete of the Year, as well as the USTFCCCA D-III National Men's Field Athlete of the Year in his senior season. A three-time national champion in the hammer throw, the All-American also won the  national title in the shot put.

Prior to his stint with the Kingsmen, Flores was a member of the Black Hills State University Track & Field team, where he was a four-time NAIA national champion, including the weight throw, hammer and shot put, before transferring to Cal Lutheran in 2009.

Flores earned his bachelor's degree in Exercise Science, with an emphasis in Pedagogy.