Kate Curran, a former Penn State cross country and track and field athlete, joined the Saint staff as head women's track and field coach and assistant men's and women's cross country coach in the fall of 2008, and was promoted to head women's cross country coach prior to the 2016 season.
She served as president of the New York State Collegiate Track Conference for two terms and was the Atlantic Regional representative to the NCAA Cross Country and Track and Field Committee from 2012-2016.
Her teams have finished in the top-15 of the Deb Vercauteren Program of the Year rankings six times as selected by the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, with three top-five finishes.Â
Under her leadership, the Saints have won 12Â Liberty League titles (six indoor, five outdoor, one cross country) and she has earned Liberty League Coach of the Year Honors 12Â times. She was named USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Coach of the Year for the indoor and outdoor seasons in 2014, and again for the indoor season in 2015.Â
Through the 2018-19 season, she has coached 40 Liberty League major award winners and produced 40 All-Americas, including three two-time national champions (Wendy Pavlus '11, Aly Pirinelli '10 and Divya Biswal '15). Pavlus was named USTFCCCA National Track Athlete of the Year in 2011 and Biswal earned USTFCCCA National Field Athlete of the Year in 2015.
Curran came to St. Lawrence from Susquehanna University where she served as an assistant cross country and track and field coach, working with distance and mid-distance runners along with pole vaulters and had two NCAA qualifiers in the pole vault in the 2006-07 season.
As a Penn State undergraduate, she was a member of the Nittany Lion cross country and track and field teams and was varsity cross country captain as a senior. She was a member of the 2004 Big Ten Champion women's track and field team and earned Penn State and Big Ten Scholar-Athlete awards and was the recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award in 2005.
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