About the Coach
Tom Donnelly
Head Coach, Men's Cross Country
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
610-896-1122
tdonnell@haverford.edu
Tom Donnelly enters his 36th season at the helm of Haverford’s track and cross country programs. Donnelly led Haverford to a second-place finish at the 2007 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championship. It was the school’s highest finish ever in any sport. The Fords’ success earned Donnelly the honor of NCAA D-III Mideast Region Men’s Coach of the Year from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Donnelly has taken Haverford to 64 Middle Atlantic and Centennial Conference championships in track and cross country, including 51 out of the last 56 since 1991. His runners have earned 116 cross country and track & field All-America certificates since 1980, including 24 individual NCAA championships and one NCAA championship relay team.
Individual program highlights under Donnelly’s guidance include Karl Paranya ’97 — a 1996 and 2000 Olympic trials participant in the 1,500 meters — who ran the first sub-4 mile (3:57.6) in NCAA D-III history in 1997; Seamus McElligott ’91, who won NCAA Division III championships in cross country, the indoor 5,000 meter run, and the outdoor 5,000 and 10,000, and also earned an All-America certificate competing in the Division I cross country championship; and J.B. Haglund ’02, who captured four NCAA titles during his senior year at Haverford.
Haglund, Haverford’s 2001 NCAA Division III Cross Country Champion, will return to the coaching staff for an eighth year. The four-time NCAA champion was also a two-time All-America runner in cross country.
Also helping the program is volunteer coach Jossi Fritz-Mauer ’06, a former distance runner for the Fords.