Nazareth College Men's Cross Country

Heymann returns for his third season as an assistant coach for the of the Nazareth cross country and track and field teams.   Heymann works with the Golden Flyers middle-distance and distance runners. In his first two years, he has coached two Empire Champions and six All Empire 8 performances. He has helped guide athletes to seven school record performances in track and field, and eight top 10 all-time cross country performances.   Heymann was a standout distance runner for Plattsburgh, competing for the Cardinals' cross country and track and field teams, serving as captain for three years.   As a cross-country runner, Heymann earned All-American honors three times as well as All-Atlantic Region and All-SUNYAC four times. He posted a personal best time of 24:12 for 8 kilometers and is a member of the SUNYAC Cross Country Hall of Fame.   As a member of the track and field teams, Heymann earned All-American honors four times, twice in the indoor 5,000-meter run and twice in the 10,000-meter run. He was named All-SUNYAC 11 times and won six individual SUNYAC titles. Heymann set school records in the indoor 3,000-meter run (8:17.54), indoor 5,000-meter run (14:13.05), outdoor 5,000-meter run (14:24.55), 10,000-meter run (29:55.37) and is a member of the school's Distance Medley Relay record setting team.   Heymann graduated from Plattsburgh in 2011 with a degree in Childhood Education 1-6 and from Nazareth College in 2015 with a Master's degree in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL).   A graduate of Tully Central High School, Heymann competed in both cross country and track and field.    

Goss has accomplished a great deal at Nazareth in a short period of time. A native of Skaneateles, N.Y., Goss has engineered steady improvement through his first five seasons as coach. His men's and women's track and field teams have broken 65 school records (combining both indoor and outdoor performances). In addition to his improvement on the course, Goss has seen six student-athletes earn All-Academic accolades since 2011.  Gabrielle LeBihan earned All-Academic honors for cross country in 2014, 2014 and 2015, while Robin Wagner joined her in 2015.  Taylor Pierson (2013, 2014), Hannah Brackley (2015), and Nick LaBarbera (2016) all garnered All-Academic honors in track.  As a team the women's cross country and track squads have been earned All-Academic recognition (3.2 GPA or higher) each season, while the men's cross country team garnered the honors in 2013 and 2014.  In 2016, Goss helped guide Gabrielle LeBihan to All-Region honors for the cross country season. His 2016 indoor season was highlighted by the Golden Flyers' first national champion as Luis Rivera placed first in the 35-pound weight throw. Rivera and Tom Sippie went on to earn All-American honors during the outdoor season in the hammer throw and 400-meter dash respectively. He also helped guide Taylor Pierson to record-shattering distances in the long jump as she became Nazareth's first-ever outdoor track and field All-American in 2013, an honor she duplicated indoors in 2014. He has coached 14 state titlists and 22 Empire 8 titlists in men's track and field and 11 state champions and 24 E8 champions in women's track and field. Before joining the staff at Nazareth, Goss excelled at Lynchburg, where he was at the forefront for many of the Hornets' recent track and field successes. In 2011, the Hornets sent three athletes to the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships. In addition, both the mens and womens teams captured their respective team titles at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championships and were ranked near the top of the southeast region. During Goss six seasons at Lynchburg, 15 school records were broken and 73 all-time top five performances were established. In addition, 21 Lynchburg athletes captured conference titles. Lynchburgs womens team was particularly strong in winning seven indoor ODAC titles and eight outdoor titles in the last 12 years. The men's team also dominated by winning 24 of 25 indoor and outdoor titles since 1998. Before joining the Lynchburg coaching staff, Goss spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Emory University in Atlanta, specializing in sprints, hurdles and jumps. At Emory, he was part of a staff that was recognized five times as University Athletic Association Coaching Staff of the Year. He coached 20 national qualifiers, including 11 All-Americans. Goss graduated from Lynchburg in 2001 with a degree in Sports Management. He went on to earn a Masters degree in Sports Administration from Georgia State. In 2011, Goss was inducted into the Lynchburg College Sports Hall of Fame. Goss was a standout in track and field at Lynchburg, specializing in sprints, jumps and the decathlon. He won the NCAA Division III title in the long jump in 2001 and was named NCAA National Athlete of the Year. He earned All-American honors 10 times, Southeast Region Athlete of the Year five times and ODAC Athlete of the Year six times during his collegiate career. Goss and his wife Mackenzie are the parents of daughter Brenna and son J.R. Men's/Women's Cross Country; Men's/Women's Track & Field Phone Email