During Coach Goldhammer's tenure he has developed the cross country program into a perennial conference contender. Under his direction the men and women have finished first or second in the SCIAC 45 times. The women's program has won 15 of the last 18 SCIAC titles and a total of 19 SCIAC crowns while the men's team has won 11 titles. At the national level the women have competed as a team 14 times while the men's team has gone 10 times. In 1995 the women finished in fourth place at the NCAA Championships and won CMS' first NCAA women's team trophy. He has coached 16 athletes who have earned 20 All-American honors.

Prior to CMS he coached at UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara City College and Cal State Los Angeles. He and his wife Toni live in Claremont. Their older daughter, Ami, is a graduate of Long Beach State and their younger daughter, Elizabeth, is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz.