Men's & Women's Cross Country: Williams

	Peter Farwell
	Head Coach Men's/Women's Cross Country pfarwell@williams.edu 413-597-3249

Pete Farwell is the head coach of the men's and women's cross country teams at Williams (men since 1979 and women since 2000).

His men's teams have won 11 New England, 13 NESCAC titles and 7 ECAC titles, garnering Farwell 7 regional coach of the year honors. He was named 1994 National Coach of the Year after leading the Williams men to the first of its two NCAA championships.

Since 1993 the men’s teams have also finished 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 5th, 6^th, 6th, 7th, 7th, 9th and 10th at the NCAA championship meet.

Farwell took over the reins of the women's cross country team in 2000, and the Ephs won the NCAA title in 2002 and 2004 and has recorded 3 runner-up finishes, two 3rds, a 4th, a 5th and two 8th's in the past twelve years!

His women’s teams have won 3 New England, 5 NESCAC titles and 5 ECAC titles, and he has been chosen women’s regional coach of the year twice, NESCAC Coach of the Year three times, and National Coach of the Year in 2002 and 2004. Altogether he has coached 19 men harriers to 31 All-American finishes (including 2 national champs) and 15 women to 23 All-American finishes (including one national champ).

Bringing to the sport a Williams ('73) liberal arts undergraduate education combined with a scientific knowledge of physiology (M.A. in P.E. Coaching, Central Michigan University ‘90), Coach Farwell has devised a training plan that improves runners of all levels. His devotion to every athlete on the team helps make Williams one of the deepest Division III teams in the nation. Farwell's 23-year competitive experience included a 23rd-place finish (2:20) at the Boston Marathon and the 6-mile Williams school record.

Farwell was head coach of the Williams men’s and women’s track & field team from 1988 to 2001 and in 2008, being honored 15 times (11 for men's team, 5 for women's team) as New England Division III Coach of the Year and in 1995 was named Men's National Coach of the Year. Other years he has served as assistant track coach of the distance runners 1980-1987 and 2002 to the present.

When track was under his leadership the teams won 9 indoor and 11 outdoor New England titles for the men plus 6 indoor and 9 outdoor for the women, 11 men’s and 10 women’s NESCAC titles, 4 men’s and 6 women’s ECAC titles, and at the NCAA Championships the men placed 2nd twice and 7 times in the top 10 while the women also garnered 8 top 10 NCAA finishes, highlighted by two 3rds.

Altogether he has coached 76 different track All-Americans to 189 All-American performances, plus relay members (9 men’s and 9 women’s All-American relays).

These totals include 25 distance women (55 awards) and 20 distance men (42 awards), 13 women and 18 men in other events (for 35 women awards and 37 men’s), including 22 national champion performances (by 11 different athletes and one relay: 7 women distance, 5 men distance, 6 women and 4 men in other events).

	Lance Harden
	Assistant Coach of Men's/Women's Cross Country & Track & Field llh2@williams.edu

Lance Harden enters his second season coaching at Williams 2011-2012.

A native of Pittsboro, NC, Lance Harden graduated from The North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics (Durham, NC) before obtaining a B.A. in Philosophy from Davidson College (Davidson, NC) in 2009. While at Davidson, Harden was a nine-time All-Southern Conference runner, a conference champion at 10,000m, and set four school records. He was a two-year captain and part of Davidson’s 2009 cross-country team that finished a program-best second in the league meet.

After finishing coursework at Davidson in December 2009, Harden was the head distance coach of indoor and outdoor track at Northwood High School (Pittsboro, NC) in 2010. There he helped all of his athletes garner All-State honors at the NCHSAA 2A Indoor and Outdoor Track Championships by finishing in the top 8 of their respective events.

In 2010-11, Harden was a volunteer assistant coach of men’s cross-country and track at Davidson College where he helped the Wildcats place 4^th in cross country with the #1, #2, #5, and #9 fastest 8K runners in school history and in track break 7 school records (including steeplechase, 5000m and 10000m), achieve 9 All-Southern Conference awards, and win SoCon individual titles in the 800m and 1500m.

	Erica Maker
	Assistant Coach of Men's/Women's Cross Country Erica.Maker@williams.edu 413-597-3539

Erica (Clausen) Maker enters her 5th season with Williams Cross Country.

She was an assistant cross-country and track & field coach at Williams during the 2007-2009 seasons before leaving to accept a similar position at Trinity University (Texas).

Last fall she returned to Williams as a volunteer assistant and administrative assistant in the Department of Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation.

Prior to her first arrival at Williams, Erica was an assistant coach from 2005-2007 at Northwestern University, where she helped with the women's cross country program while completing her master's degree in Sports Administration. She was also an assistant coach in track & field at Loyola Academy in Chicago during the 2005 season.

A 2004 graduate of St. Olaf College, Erica majored in English and Spanish and studied abroad in Spain. She is originally from the Chicago area.

	Kathleen Newton
	Assistant Coach of Men's/Women's Cross Country kathleenmnewton@gmail.com 413-597-3249

Coach Newton enters her 8th season assisting Williams Cross Country. She is also the head track & field coach at Mt. Anthony Union High School in Bennington, Vermont.

Newton is a 2004 graduate of Southern Vermont College and she holds both the 5k cross-country and 5k track records there. Newton earned Conference and All-Academic Team status twice at Southern Vermont. She is now an accomplished Masters' runner, competing in distance races 5k and up.