men's cross country Coaches

Co-captain of the 1993 men's cross country team and a four-year runner for the Saints in cross country and indoor and outdoor track, John Newman enters his 11th season as head men's cross country coach and his fourth at the helm of the men's track and field program. 

John served as assistant cross country and track and field coach from 1994-95 until becoming the head coach in 2001.  He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in sports studies in the spring of 1994 and his Master's Degree in education in 2001. 

Newman has played a major role in the success of the men's cross country program which includes 17 straight conference titles and a streak of four straight New York State Collegiate Track Conference championships. The Saints, who won the NCAA Regional championship in 1997 and 2000, also posted the program's best finish at the NCAA Championship race in 2010, finishing third overall. Newman, a native of Canton, NY, has coached eight All-Americans and 11 individual conference champions in cross country and was the Liberty League Cross Country Coach of the Year six times (04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 10). 

In track and field, his teams have won three NYSCTC indoor championships, back-to-back ECAC Indoor Championships and two Liberty League indoor championships during his tenure. The Saint men's team has had three All Americas including a national champion during his tenure.

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 cross country coach in the fall of 2008 and earned Liberty League Indoor Coach of the Year honors in her first season as a collegiate head coach. Her teams have had three top ten finishes in the Deb Vercauteren Program of the Year Award.

She is vice president of the New York State Collegiate Track Conference and is the Atlantic Regional representative to the NCAA Cross Country and Track and Field Committee.

Curran came to St. Lawrence from Susquehanna University where she served as an assistant coach. She holds a USATF Level 1 Coaching certification and was Gatorade Sport Camp Hydration Manager at the Penn State summer sports camps. She coached distance and mid-distance runners along with pole vaulters at Susquehanna and had two NCAA qualifiers in the 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.

Paul Doty will serve as the men's cross country team's Faculty/Staff Mentor for the 2011-2012 season.

Paul is charged with reference, that is, with helping students integrate both the print and electronic materials into their research in ways that move them along intellectually, and help faculty find the materials that are the substance of their syllabi and research. In the academic year, Paul will be working to expand consultation and outreach services, so that the depth and breadth of library resources are better understood and utilized.

Paul supervises the Interlibrary Loan Department, and questions about ConnectNY or other interlibrary loan services should go to him. Paul will be teaching in the FYP in the Fall 2008 semester, and will offer a course on Alan Turing this Spring for FYS. He has a B.A. in English from Keene State College, and an M.A. in English from the University of Maine. His Master's in Library Science is from SUNY Albany.