Dartmouth College Women's Cross Country

Wunderlich helped Dartmouth's Kaitlin Whitehorn to the high jump titles during both the indoor and outdoor Heps meets. In the outdoor season, Whitehorn qualified for Nationals, placing 12th and earning All-America Second-Team honors under the guidance of Wunderlich. He also guided student-athletes to stong showings in multis over the course of both seasons. In 2014, Wunderlich qualified for both the indoor and outdoor USATF Championships in the decathlon and heptathlon, finishing 12th in the former and sixth in the latter. The previous year, the Westminster, Maryland, native represented his country as part of Team USA at the 2013  Pan American Combined Events Cup, placing fifth in the decathlon. Wunderlich had his best season as a Dartmouth coach in 2016 as Kaitlin Whitehorn won both the indoor and outdoor Heptagonal championship in the high jump. After each Ivy title, Whitehorn would go on to earn All-American First Team status at the NCAA Championships, taking seventh during the indoor season and third during the outdoor campaign. Whitehorn became the first Dartmouth woman ever to win three outdoor titles in the high jump and the first ever to win three in a row as well. In all, she finished her collegiate career with six titles in the event. Under Wunderlichs coaching, Whitehorn would go on to compete in the 2016 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, where she would smash her own Dartmouth record and finish fifth, just missing out on a shot at going to Rio. Wunderlichs hiring was a homecoming of sorts for the 2009 graduate with a degree in human biology. As a student-athlete, the Westminister, Maryland, native was an Ivy League champion in the decathlon as a junior and was honored with the Everett L. Palmer Award as a senior for his contributions to the program. As a member of the Big Green, Wunderlich was also a 2008 Academic All-Ivy League selection and was three-time second team all-conference student-athlete between javelin and the decathlon. In 2012, Wunderlich posted the 23rd-best mark in the US in the decathlon, achieving the Olympic Trials "B" standard with a score of 7,636 points. Upon his graduation, Wunderlich went on to serve as a volunteer assistant coach at Johns Hopkins (2009-10), a graduate assistant coach at Central Missouri (2010-12) and, most recently, as an assistant at Marietta since August 2012. While in Ohio the last two years, he worked closely with all individuals in the jumps and multis events as well as javelin throwers.

Forino coached Emmaline Berg 13 at the 2016 Indoor USA Championships. As a recruiter, Forino has proven himself to be one of the best, securing the 2015 National High School Champion in the discus to Dartmouth. A 1995 graduate of Keene State College, Forino had served as the mens track & field head coach at Hillsdale since August 2011 before returning to Dartmouth. Prior to his appointment to lead the Chargers program three years ago, he had served as an associate head coach for eight seasons. While at Hillsdale, Forino also worked with the strength and conditioning program, designing and implementing workouts for more than 10 sports to improve speed, agility and conditioning. Before his 13-month stint in Hanover, Forino spent time at Springfield College (2000-02), working as an assistant with the mens and womens track & field teams while pursuing his masters degree in athletic administration. In his career, Forino has coached more than 40 All-Americans, including the 2010 Division II Indoor National Champion in the weight throw. "We are very excited to add Jeff to the Dartmouth coaching staff and to welcome him back to the Upper Valley, Marjorie and Herbert Chase 30 Head Coach of Men's Track and Field and Cross Country 77 said.  He will do a great job with our throws group and I am sure they will respond well to his coaching technique and instruction. Jeffs vast experience and success as the head coach of Hillsdale will serve him well. His knowledge of Dartmouth as a former coach with our program and in working with in strength and conditioning will allow him to hit the ground running."

Ford-Centonzes position was endowed thanks to the generosity of Herbert and Marge Chase. Herb, a member of the Class of 1930, was manager of the team and then a track and field official at Dartmouth meets for many years. The Chase endowment is the first for any athletic program at Dartmouth. This very special support will add to the prestige of a program that has been in existence at the College for over a century.    During the course of the 2015-16 academic year, several of Ford-Centonze's student-athletes set standards of excellence at the national level. Senior Kaitlin Whitehorn was a First Team All-American in the high jump at both the indoor and outdoor NCAA Championship meets, while Dana Giordano was a first teamer in 1500m during the outdoor season. Giordanos 4:11.86 in Eugene not only was good for third in the nation, but also broke the events program record previously held by Abbey DAgostino. Whitehorn graduated from Dartmouth in the Spring of 2016, but not before etching her name into the program and Ivy League record books as arguably the best high jumper in conference history. A six-time league champion and three-time All-American in the event, her 2016 outdoor championship makes her the first in program history to win not only three, but three in a row. In addition to the three All-American First Team honors, Ford-Centonze saw her team win six individual titles combined between indoor and outdoor Heps meet. Jennifer Meech 17 broke a nearly three-decades old program record in the 400m, running a 53.97 to eclipse the previous mark of 54.54 set in 1987. Additionally, Meech, Alison Frantz, Sara Kikut and Maria Garman tied the Dartmouth outdoor record for the 4x400m relay at the Virginia Challenge by running 3:42.54. At the conclusion of the 2016 outdoor season, Abbey DAgostino 14 and Lexi Pappas 12 became the first former athletes from a Ford-Centonze team to qualify for the Summer Olympic games. DAgostino qualified in the 5000m representing the United States, while Pappas went to Rio for Team Greece to run in the 10,000m. In all, four former Dartmouth females participated in the Olympic Trials in Eugene as Megan Krumpoch 14 (800m) and Whitehorn (high jump) also competed.   In 2014, Ford-Centonze led the Dartmouth women to all new heights. The Big Green finished tied for seventh at the NCAA Indoor National Championship, a new program best for Dartmouth and the highest finish ever by an Ivy League team on either the men's or women's side. It was also in 2014 that Ford-Centonze was elected by her peers as secretary at the annuall USTFCCCA Convention. No stranger to a leadership role, she had also served as Heptagonal Coaches Group President from 2004-06. During the course of three seasons of competition in 2013-14, Ford-Centonze guided five inidividuals to All-America status, earning 11 seperate honors in that time (2 in XC, 7 indoor, 2 outdoor). During indoor season, the women's DMR finished eighth, while Megan Krumpoch claimed sixth in the 800m. At the outdoor meet, Krumpoch moved on one spot, taking fifth in a program-record 2:03.42 at Oregon's Hayward Field. In addition, Abbey D'Agostino became the first Ivy Leaguer male or female to win the NCAA Cross Country individual Championship in 2013 at Indiana State's home course in Terre Haute. She would go on to win two more national titles during indoor season to finish her career with seven, the most by any Ivy League student-athlete in the history of the conference. Capping off the successful stretch of 2013-14, the Big Green under Ford-Centonze's guidance finished fourth in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA)  final standings for the Terry Crawford Division I Women's Program of the Year Award, the best placement ever by an Ivy League school. In 2012, the Dartmouth women's DMR team earned All-American honors after taking third at the NCAA Championships in Boise. Also during that year, Ford-Centonze was a part of of coaching Abbey D'Agostino to three track All-American honors, including the program's first ever individual national championship as D'Agostino claimed the top prize in the 5,000 meters. In the year that followed, D'Agostino won three more titles and the Dartmouth women set numerous sprints, hurdles and relay program records during the 2013 track seasons. Some of the records that were broken had stood for more than two decades, including the  100m, 200m, 4x100m, 4x400m. She has led the Big Green to unprecedented heights in the ECAC and Heptagonal championships in the past sixteen years. During the 2002 outdoor season Ford-Centonze saw her first All-American Heptathlete when Shaina Damm placed eighth at the NCAA championships. The 2003 outdoor season was the start of the the NCAA Regional competition, and the Big Green women have had qualifiers for the meet each year. Since 2003, the Big Green women have been named as one of the nation's top All-Academic Team by the US Track & Field Coaches Association. The 2006 season was a record breaking year for Coach Sandys sprint/hurdle crew. In all they saw five records fall, with Fatih Stanley 06 making history at the outdoor Heptagonal Championships by being the first athlete to win both the 100m and 200m, and the first Dartmouth athlete to take home the 200m crown. The womens team brought home the third place 2007 New England trophy with a total of 18 women.  The womens records continued to fall during the 2007-09 campaigns. In 2008 the 4 x 400m relay broke a six year old record with a time of 3:49.78, and again in 2010 with a time of 3:48.41. Natalie Todd-Zebell 09 continued to rewrite the pole vault records each of her four years. Emily Daly 09, broke both the 20lb wt. and hammer records during the 2009 season.The twenty-two year old 400im record fell as Alexandra Tanner 11 posted a time of 59.04 on her way to qualifying for the NCAA regional meet.      In 2008, Ford-Centonze led a group of Dartmouth track athletes on a two-week trip to Ireland and England, where they competed against the Limerick University team and in an open meet in London. Coach Sandy has seen her womens team be named All-Academic Team by the United States Track and Field Coaches Association since 2003. During the 2008 season, they were ranked ninth out of 117 honored teams in the country.      Ford-Centonze came to Hanover from the University of Vermont, where she spent six years as head coach for track. Under her guidance, the Catamounts captured three straight New England outdoor championships, from 1987-89. Vermont also finished second in 1988 and third in 1989 at the New England indoor championships. She was named New England Coach of the Year for outdoor track in 1988 and 1989 and the North Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year in 1992.     Within the coaching profession, Ford-Centonze has served on the ECAC technical committee, the ECAC running jury and the New England Womens Intercollegiate Cross Country and Track and Field Association standards committee, as well as the NCAA protest committee. She is a past president for the ECAC Track and Field Association. At the beginning of the 2000 track and field season, Sandra was chosen by her peers to be the District I NCAA Representative for Women's Track and Field. Ford-Centonze has been an instructor at the Stowe (Vt.) Summer Sports Festival since 1991  and during the  summer of 1996 she directed a speed development camp for a group of 30 Japanese football players who came to the United States for training.  In 2000 she added Dry Land Ski training to her camp duties. She has been a member of the Bates Track and Field Camp since 1997, coaching both sprints and hurdles. During the summer of 2003, Sandy started a track and field day camp for the town of Lebanon. The summer of 2005 saw Coach Ford-Centonze make a move to the Dick Fosbury Track Camp at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Coach Ford-Centonze stays active with Girls and Youth in sport, having been a past clinician for the NCAA Youth Education Through Sport(YES), as well as a panelist at the Patrina Foundation Leadership Conference at The Ethel Walker School. During the summer of 1999, Coach Ford-Centonze was an instructor and panelist at the Girls Scouts of the USA National Sports Event. Ford-Centonze started her coaching career at her alma mater, Appalachian State University, where she was assistant track coach from 1984-86. She also holds a masters degree in Athletic Administration from Appalachian State. As an undergraduate, she captained the 1981-82 and 1982-83 Mountaineer track squads and was chosen Appalachian States Most Valuable Performer as a junior when she went undefeated in the 400 in just her second year of track competition. She and her family live in Lebanon, NH.  She is the proud mother of Christian and Antonio.

Phelps assists the Big Green coaching staff in day-to-day operations, while working closely with student-athletes on both the men's and women's sides. In his first season with the Green and White, Phelps was a key member of the staff working with middle distance and distance runners. First-Team All-Ivy League showings from Will Geoghegan 15 and Phil Royer 13 highlighted Phelps' first Heptagonal Cross Country meet in November 2012. Since coming to Dartmouth, Phelps has worked with several student-athletes who have gone on to achieve high levels of success. In 2014, one of those individuals was Megan Krumpoch 14, who earned First Team All-America honors in the 800m during both the indoor and outdoor seasons at the NCAA Championships. Krumpoch also won the indoor Heps title in the indoor 800m as a senior in 2014 and was a member of the 4x800m relay team that won Heps championships in both the indoor and outdoor meets that year with the help of Phelps. Under Phelps guidance, numerous Dartmouth student-athletes have earned All-Ivy honors and secured points for the Big Green at championship events as well as post top-five times in their respective events in Dartmouths all-time record books. As an assistant coach with the cross country programs, Phelps has helped direct the Big Green womens team to a pair of Ivy titles in 2013 and 2014. Additionally, he has worked with individual champions as well as several All-Ivy First and Second Team runners. As a member of the Longhorns' staff for two years, Phelps was a part of a cross country program that reached the National Championship meet in consecutive seasons. In both years, Texas produced the top freshman finisher; a product of Phelps' guidance throughout the fall. During his time in the Lone Star State, Phelps also contributed to the men's indoor and outdoor track & field teams that finished third nationally in the Program of the Year field. His time in Austin also saw Phelps work directly with two All-Americans and All-Big 12 Performers as well as help the coaching staff produce the nation's top recruiting class in 2011. A 2010 graduate of the University of Illinois, Phelps was a four-year letterwinner in all three seasons of competition.