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After a legendary career spanning nearly half a century, Kevin Quinn announced his retirement on June 8, 2015. Quinn spent a combined 49 years as head coach between SJU’s men’s and women’s track and field and cross country programs.
Kevin Quinn concluded his 49th year at Saint Joseph’s University and his 30th season with the women’s track and cross country programs in 2014-15. Quinn served as the director of the track and cross country programs for 47 years between 1996 and 2013.
A 1962 graduate of Saint Joseph's, Quinn served as the head coach of the men's cross country and track squads for 22 years between 1966-1988. He added the women’s track and field and cross country programs to his head coaching duties in 1985.
In July of 1989, Quinn was appointed to the position of assistant athletic director for facilities and was promoted to associate athletic director for facilities in 2001. Quinn also held the title of the director of track and field from 1966-2013.
In a total of 147 men’s and women’s cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track seasons that spanned 49 years, Quinn coached 40 NCAA qualifiers, nine NCAA All-Americans, and 10 ECAC/IC4A champions, as well as Saint Joseph’s only NCAA champion, Donna Crumety, who claimed the 1991 title in the triple jump. Quinn coached 15 NCAA Track and Field Championships indoor qualifiers along with four Academic All-Americans, 11 Academic All-District selections and 50 Atlantic10 Academic All-Conference selections, including the 2001 A-10 Student Athlete of the Year, Gina Bundy.
In 30 years with the Saint Joseph’s women’s track and field and cross country programs, Quinn coached five NCAA All-Americans and 14 NCAA qualifiers, five ECAC champions, 87 track champions, and 31 All-Conference cross country selections in the Atlantic 10, including nine A-10 Performers of the Year and one A-10 Rookie of the Year.
During the 2013-14 season, Quinn coached five Atlantic 10 bronze medalists, 13 ECAC competitors, and a pentathlon champion in a season that saw school records broken in the 60m hurdles and Sprint Medley Relay in addition to Saint Joseph’s second-fastest 4x4 performance in program history. Under his direction, and for the first time in program history, three of his student-athletes were selected to the Capital One/CoSIDA Women's Track and Field and Cross Country Academic All-District 9 Division I First Team in the same season.
In 2012-13, Quinn coached Dannah Hayward to the USA Junior National Championship, and Emma Slattery, who became the first female Hawk to earn CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team honors since 2001. He also coached three ECAC All-East team selections in a track season that saw six school records broken.
Quinn led the Saint Joseph’s cross country and track and field programs to great heights during his tenure. His men's cross country squads won two Big 5 titles, while the 1984 men's track team turned in a seventh-place finish at the IC4A Championships. A two-time Atlantic 10 Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year, Quinn coached the 1993 and 2000 squads to the A-10 titles; the 1993 squad became the first women's athletic team at Saint Joseph's to claim an Atlantic 10 title.
Under Quinn's tutelage, the 1997 track team set 10 new school records and notched SJU's first-ever women's Penn Relays victory, earning first place in the 4x800m relay.
In his 23 years with the Saint Joseph’s men’s track and field and cross country programs, Quinn coached four NCAA All-Americans and 26 NCAA qualifiers in addition to five IC4A champions.
An outstanding athlete in his own right, Quinn once held SJU records in the mile and two-mile runs and was the first American to cross the finish line of the 1961 IC4A Cross Country Championships, earning third overall. Quinn is a two-time MAC cross country individual champion, a two-time MAC mile champion and record holder, and a two-time NCAA qualifier in the mile. After graduating from Saint Joseph’s, Quinn won the famed Berwick Marathon.
Quinn is a charter member of the Saint Joseph's Track Hall of Fame and a member of the Saint Joseph’s Athletics Hall of Fame. He was also selected to the Middle Atlantic Conference Century 100 Cross Country Century Team in 2012 and is the first coach to have served as president of the ICAAAA and ECAC Coaches Associations.
Quinn currently resides in Havertown, Pa., with his wife, Marie. They are the parents of six children: Kevin, Marie, Sean, Kathleen, Colleen, and Brendan.
