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Karen Boen - Director of Men’s and Women’s Cross Country /Track & Field - Stonehill College. Not many coaches in the country can boast of the accolades that Karen Boen has put on her resume since arriving at Stonehill a decade ago. Now in her tenth season at the College, Boen has brought the men's and women's cross country and track and field programs to national prominence, collecting countless conference, regional and national awards along the way. Under her tutelage, seven men and women have gone on to earn All-America honors in cross country and another 14 in men's and women's track and field. She has collected a combined 10 Northeast-10 Coach of the Year Awards and eight more NCAA Northeast Region Coach of the Year Awards. |
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Shawn Green - Head Men's Cross Country/Track and Field Coach - Southern Connecticut State University. Green joined the Owls in 2009 with more than a decade of experience as a coach and student-athlete at four Division I programs – Quinnipiac University, the University of New Hampshire, Michigan State University and Georgia State University. He spent the last nine years building Quinnipiac’s men’s and women’s programs into two of the best in the Northeast.
A three-time Northeast Conference Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year, Green also guided the Quinnipiac University women’s cross country squad to the 2007 New England Championship. |
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Dan Ireland - Head Men’s Cross Country Coach - Yale University. Dan enters his tenth year as coach of the men's middle distance and distance runners. He joined the Bulldog staff in January of 2000 and made an immediate impact on those areas and to the cross country squad. The 2007-2008 school year was yet again another successful campaign as the Bulldogs once again made numerous additions to both the Indoor and Outdoor All-Time Lists. In addition, the Elis had great success at the Ivy League and IC4A Championships as Ireland's runners garnered over a dozen All-East performances |
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Ed O'Connor - Dean of Health Sciences, the former Head Men’s Cross Country Coach at Quinnipiac University. Ed coached the Quinnipiac University men's cross country program for 16 years. He is a five-time NEC Coach of the Year being honored in 2003, 2004, 2006 ,2007 and 2008. O'Connor oversaw the program's upgrade to Div. I in 1998 and won his first NEC Championship in 2004. In that same year, his student-athletes took the top two spots at the meet. His teams have also performed admirably in the classroom. Quinnipiac has been named an Academic All-American Team for 8 of the past 9 seasons. In January of this year, Ed announced that after 10 years of organization, Quinnipiac University will opening a Medical School at there North Haven, CT campus. |
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Jason Saretsky - Director of Men’s and Women’s Cross Country/Track & Field - Harvard University. Jason enters his third season as the director of men's and women's track and field and cross country at Harvard in 2008-09. During Saretsky’s first two seasons at the helm of the Crimson, Harvard has had two All-America performances, two NCAA qualifiers, 10 NCAA regional qualifiers, eight
Heptagonal champions, 10 school records and 74 marks added to the program’s top-10 list. |
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