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Coaches
Marty Owens, Head Coach
(570) 372-4416 - owensm@susqu.edu
Marty Owens has served as head men’s track and field coach since the summer of 2004 after becoming the Crusaders’ head women’s track and field coach in the winter of 2003. He has also coached the men’s and women’s cross country teams since the summer of 2003.
In 2005, Owens was named Mideast Region Coach of the Year in men’s track and field by the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association after leading the Crusader men’s team to its 14th Middle Atlantic Conference team championship.
He was previously an assistant track and cross country coach and later head indoor coach at Westfield (Mass.) High School from April 2001 to June 2002.
He is a member of the Fleet Feet and Power Bar Team Elite racing teams and has competed in a number of marathons and other road races around the country, as well as the famed Ironman Triathlon World Championship in both 1995 and 1997.
In 2002, Owens finished fourth in the Washington D.C. Marathon, while finishing in the top 10 in the Vermont City Marathon in both 2000 and 2001. In 1998, Owens took second at the Atlantic City Marathon and in 1999 he was 13th in the Las Vegas International Marathon.
Owens has also competed in half-marathons, winning the Las Vegas Track Club Half-Marathon in both 1998 and 1999 while finishing fourth at the New Bedford Half-Marathon in 2000. In 1999, Owens was named the Southern Nevada Male Runner of the Year. His personal record in the half-marathon is 1:08.45 while his best marathon time is 2:27.32.
He is a 1987 graduate of Oakcrest High School in Mays Landing, New Jersey and a 1991 graduate of Ursinus College with a bachelor of science degree in health, physical education and recreation. He has completed course work toward a master’s degree in exercise physiology at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Owens resides in Lewisburg with his wife, Kathy, who
serves as director of institutional research and special projects at Susquehanna.
Kate Curran, Assistant Coach
(570) 372-4493 - curranm@susqu.edu
Kate Curran joined Marty Owens’ staff in 2006 and is in her second year as an assistant coach with the track & field and cross country programs.
The Springfield, Pa. native comes to Susquehanna University from Penn State, where she was a member of the Nittany Lion cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field teams specializing in distance events including the mile, 3000 meter, 5000 meter, and 3000 meter steeplechase races. Curran capped off her career at Penn State by qualifying for the 2006 NCAA Division-One Eastern Regional Championships in the 3000m steeplechase.
Curran, who helped the Nittany Lions win the 2004 Big Ten Indoor Track & Field Championship, was named captain of the Nittany Lion cross country team in 2005, a Penn State Scholar Athlete, and Academic All-Big Ten selection from 2003-2006, and was the recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award in 2005.
At Susquehanna University, Curran coaches distance and mid-distance runners along with pole vaulters. In the 2006-2007 track and field seasons she coached two NCAA championship qualifiers in the pole vault and was named to the Coaching Staff of the Year for men’s cross country in the Landmark Conference in 2007.
Curran earned a B.S. in Kinesiology with a certification in K-12 Health and Physical Education while at Penn State and is working toward a graduate degree in education.
Rachel Drosdick, Assistant Coach
(570) 372-4558 - drosdickr@susqu.edu
Rachel Drosdick enters the 2007-08 season as a first year assistant track and field coach specializing in the jumping events along with the hurdles.
A native of Verona, N.J., Drosdick is a 2007 graduate of Muhlenberg College where she was a four-year track and field letterwinner. She currently holds four individual school records for the Mules (indoor and outdoor long jump, indoor pentathlon, outdoor heptathlon).
Throughout her college years, Drosdick scored 100 points in Centennial Conference action, winning the indoor long jump in 2006. In addition, she was a NCAA provisional qualifier in the indoor long jump and heptathlon and was frequently recognized as an All-Conference selection..
A captain, Drosdick was voted Player's Player her senior year and earned Second-Team All-ECAC in the pentathlon as a junior.
Drosdick double-majored in French and Secondary Education while at Muhlenberg. |
