COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. (March 30, 2004) The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) today announced the finalists for its National, Developmental and Volunteer Coach of the Year honors. The awards will be presented Sunday, May 2, 2004, during a dinner at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs.    Forty-one Olympic and Pan American sport organizations selected their 2003 National, Developmental and/or Volunteer Coaches of the Year as part of the USOC Coach of the Year recognition program. The five finalists in the National and Developmental categories and the winner of the USOC Volunteer Coach of the Year title will be honored May 1-3 at the Colorado Springs Training Complex.    Finalists for the USOC National Coach of the Year award are Bob Bowman (Baltimore, Md./USA Swimming), Mike Candrea (Oklahoma City, Okla./USA Softball), Edward Korfanty (Portland, Ore./U.S. Fencing), Terry Steiner (Colorado Springs/USA Wrestling) and Lloyd Woodhouse (Colorado Springs/USA Shooting).    Bowman, who joined the North Baltimore Aquatic Club in 1996, has coached swimmers, including world record holder in eight events Michael Phelps, to hundreds of national age group rankings, including more than 60 to No. 1. Additionally, his swimmers have set 54 national age group records.    Head coach for the 2004 USA Softball Olympic Team, Candrea has won six NCAA Championships during his coaching career at the University of Arizona. His Wildcat teams have made 17 consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament and 16 straight trips to the Women's College World Series.    Under Korfanty's leadership, the USA is enjoying its best fencing results in history with the U.S. women's sabre squad ranked No. 1 in the world team event and more than five U.S. women in the top world individual rankings.    Steiner, who is responsible for the training of America's elite women freestyle wrestlers and coaching the women wrestlers in the U.S. Olympic Training Center resident athlete program, led the U.S. women to first place at the 2003 World Cup.    Woodhouse retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1985 to coach the U.S. National Team and National Development Team. In 2003, his shotgun athletes won 12 medals at major international competitions, including a world title at the 2003 World Clay Target Championships.     The Developmental Coach of the Year finalists are Jim Foster (Columbus, Ohio/USA Basketball), Bob Fraley (Fresno, Calif./USA Track & Field), Don Freeman (Battle Ground, Wash./USA Baseball), Matt Imes (Princeton, N.J./USA Rowing) and Todd Wilson (Steamboat Springs, Colo./U.S. Ski and Snowboard).    Foster, who has been involved with USA Basketball since 1987, tackled his third USA head coaching assignment with the 2003 World Championship for Young Women Team. In guiding the 21-and-under squad to the gold medal, Foster upped his USA Basketball head coaching record to 27-4.    Fraley has played a pivotal role in rejuvenating the pole vault in the United States and his work has reaped dividends. Team USA's men's pole vaulters won the gold and silver medals at both the 2000 Olympic Games and 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships, as well as the bronze medal at the 2001 World Outdoor Championships.     In Freeman's fourth overall coaching stint with USA Baseball and first as a head coach, he led the 2003 Youth National Team to the program's third consecutive IBAF AAA World Youth Championship. The squad posted a 7-1 record in the tournament, outscoring its opponents 90-32.    Imes, who joined the U.S. Rowing staff in June 2002, coached the men's four with coxswain to a gold medal at the 2003 FISA World Rowing Championships.     Wilson started coaching in 1992, became Nordic Combined Head Coach for the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club in 1994 and Director in 2000. Many of his athletes have competed successfully at the Nationals and as members of U.S. Olympic teams.    Finalists for the USOC Volunteer Coach of the Year title are Roland Estrada (Providence, R.I./USA Boxing), Carol Hardemon (Miami, Fla./USA Track & Field), Mary Johnsen (Downieville, Calif./U.S. Tennis), Katherine Jones-Thiry (Redmond, Wash./USA National Karate-Do) and Dennis Marquard (Westlake, Ohio/U.S. Speedskating).    Estrada has compiled an 89-7 record over the past four years, and in 2003 racked up a 31-5 record while coaching athletes who won five state championships and three national titles. He is both father and coach to 2003 Pan American Games gold medalist Jason Estrada, the first non-Cuban to win the Games' super heavyweight title.     In 1969, Hardemon started working as a recreation leader for the Miami-Dade Parks Department, where she is presently employed as a park manager. Her love of community and spirit of volunteerism is typified by the Metro-Dade Track Club, which she co-founded, and her mentoring of at-risk children.    A nationally ranked high school tennis player who 30 years later served as volunteer director of the National Indoor Tennis Association, Johnsen has brought tennis to Downieville, population 325. She personally invites student leaders to join her on the court, knowing full well others will follow. This year 13 students turned out for the tennis team, 40% of the entire high school student body of 33.    Introduced to the sport of karate by her brother when she was a child, Jones-Thiry is currently teaching through the Washington Karate Association at Washington athletic clubs. She also has a coaching background in swimming and horseback riding.    Marquard began coaching for the Lakewood Speedskating Club, and other clubs in the Ohio Skating Association, in 1974 and has continued to do. He has enjoyed enormous accomplishments, contributing to the development and success of many skaters at all levels of the pipeline, including four world team members and three Olympians.    Terry Steiner (Colorado Springs, Colo.) - Additional Biographical Information    Steiner was named USA Wrestling's full-time National Women's Coach in April 2002.  He is responsible for the training of America's elite women freestyle wrestlers, as well as coaching women wrestlers who are involved in the U.S. Olympic Training Center resident athlete program. He also plays an important role in the development of women's wrestling in the United States.    Since becoming USA Wrestling's National Women's Coach, U.S. teams on international tours have turned in many outstanding performances. The United States placed second at the 2003 World Championships, with seven individual medalists, one in each weight class. Team USA upset Japan to win the 2003 Women's World Cup, as the world's top dual meet team. The USA swept all four gold medals at the 2003 Pan American Games, the first time that women's wrestling was contested.    Steiner completed his sixth season as an assistant wrestling coach at the Univ. of Wisconsin, working with head coach Barry Davis. He has helped develop a number of successful Div. I wrestlers, including two-time NCAA champion Donny Pritzlaff.    Steiner spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Oregon State. He was also a coach with the Hawkeye Wrestling Club in Iowa City, Iowa after his college career ended.    Since 1997, he served as one of the coaches for Wisconsin's USA Wrestling Cadet National Team. Along with his twin brother Troy, he directed a kids wrestling club in Iowa City in 1993-94.    As an athlete, Steiner claimed second in the 1998 U.S. Nationals in freestyle and placed at the National Championships eight times. He placed fourth in the 1996 Olympic Trials and fifth in the 2000 Olympic Trials. He won a gold medal at the 1996 Pan American Championships.     He was a 1993 NCAA Div. I champion for Univ. of Iowa, coached by the legendary Dan Gable. He won three All-American honors and compiled a career record of 124-27-2. He was also voted the Outstanding Wrestler at the 1993 NCAA Championships. Originally from Bismarck, N.D., Steiner won two state titles for Century High School. Steiner earned a bachelor's degree in social work from Iowa in 1993.