Roberts Wesleyan College Women's Track

Dorr is an asset to the Roberts Wesleyan College athletic department. She is an outstanding runner and dedicated coach. During her collegiate career at Roberts Wesleyan, Jennifer received NAIA All-American honors in the 3000m and earned multiple NCCAA All-American awards in both cross-country and track and field. Jennifer currently holds the Roberts Wesleyan College record for the mile run and many other top ten performances on the Roberts Wesleyan record board. Her passion for running inspired her to continue her involvement in the sport even after college.  Since graduating, Jennifer has set personal records in the mile (5:01), 3000m (10:12), 5000m (17:35), and 10,000m (37:39) races.     Jennifer has been a part of the coaching staff since 2006. Her years of competitive running and passion for working with college students make her an excellent coach. Among the athletes, she is known as Aunt Jen because of her hospitality and delicious pies. She finds that running with the athletes provides another great opportunity to cultivate relationships and set a good example. The team is blessed to have a female mentor with such great character and passion.    Jennifer is also an elementary teacher in the Hilton Central School District. She began there as a long-term substitute in 2009, was offered a full-time probationary position in August 2010, and earned tenure in December 2012. Jennifer and her husband, Andrew, attend Pearce Memorial Church in North Chili and live in Churchville, NY. Their desire is to serve God by working in the lives of college students and they hope to continue that ministryin partnershipfor many years.

Andrew Dorr started coaching at Roberts as a Volunteer Assistant in 2008. He and his wife, Jennifer, served as co-Head Cross Country Coaches starting in 2011. And then in September 2018, Dorr was elevated to his current role of Director of Cross Country and Track & Field. Coach Dorr is responsible for overseeing all four programs (Men's/Women's Cross Country and Men's/Women's Track & Field), though his primary coaching duties are with the distance runners throughout Cross Country and Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field. Entering 2024, Coach Dorr has led the Men’s and Women's Cross Country programs to nine straight East Coast Conference (ECC) Championships. He has also been named ECC Cross Country Coach of the Year for 11 straight seasons. In all, Dorr has accumulated 22 conference coach of the year awards in his career. Dorr led the Women’s Cross Country Program to consecutive NCCAA national titles in 2013 and 2014 and also earned NCCAA DI Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year alongside his wife in both of those years. He was also named NCAA DII Cross Country East Region Coach of the Year by USTFCCCA in 2014 and 2019 after the Women’s (’14) and Men’s (’19) Cross Country Teams won East Region Championship Titles. In 2021, Dorr was named Men’s DII Indoor Track & Field East Region Coach of the Year. Nationally, the Women’s Cross Country Teams have made nine appearances at the NCAA Division II Championships (’14 - ’23) and the Roberts men have made four (’14, ’19, ’22, ’23). The program’s best finish was the women’s team’s 9 th place in 2014. Coach Dorr has left no stone un-turned in the effort to develop every distance runner in the program to his or her potential. Of note is Dorr’s commitment to the health of the runners. Distance running is a brutal sport where the objective is to ride the line between the highest level of fitness and potential breakdown. Research has shown that eighty-three percent of runners will get injured at some point in their career and perhaps as many as fifty percent will have an injury which prevents training and racing every year. Coach Dorr has partnered with area physical therapists to develop diagnostic, preventative, and rehabilitative programs specifically designed for distance runners in upstate New York. The Coaches Dorr live in Churchville with their three sons: Levi (8), Asher (5), and Ezra (3). The young members of the Dorr family can often be found nearby roping the runners into playtime and cheering on the team during practice and competitions. Coaching Philosophy Athletics is perhaps the most demanding activity in which college students can be involved. Achieving your potential as a runner requires understanding of the sport, self-awareness and patience, and self- discipline and unwavering commitment. My duties as a coach are to direct and guide the team members down the desired path and over obstacles each will inevitably face. An athlete’s mind, body, and character are put to the test through the pursuit of excellence and growing in all three of these is a priority. While I want everyone to improve, run fast, and win when it matters most, a majority of our team meetings and individual conversations are not specific to running, but rather to navigating life. I can best serve the student-athletes by helping them implement wisdom into their daily lives and finding hope that will sustain them through every season of sport or life. Principles, such as delayed gratification, and productive, moral living are equally helpful in all of life’s endeavors, so these are certainly keys to success for high-achieving student-athletes.