Courtney Jaworski was hired as Yale's Mark T. Young ’68 Director of Cross Country and Track & Field in June 2024. An Ivy League and NEWMAC Coach of the Year, he has had a plethora of successful experiences as both a head coach and as a former Ivy League student-athlete.
In Jaworski's first cross country season at Yale, the Yale men finished fifth and the Yale women finished 11th at NCAA Regionals. The men had three all-region honorees and the women had one. Both teams earned USTFCCCA All-Academic Team recognition, and four Bulldogs were honored individually as USTFCCCA All-Academic Athletes. In track and field, Yale set nine school records indoors and eight school records outdoors. The Bulldogs had four men and four women compete at the NCAA First Round East meet.
Jaworski came to New Haven from Smith College, where he served as the Pioneers’ Director of Cross Country and Head Track & Field Coach for three years. He and his staff made an immediate impact, being named the 2022 NEWMAC Coaching Staff of the Year and placing second at the NEWMAC Cross Country Championships.
Under Jaworski’s tutelage, Smith’s team appearance at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships in 2021, finishing 29th, was the first in 30 years for the program, having last appeared in 1991. Their 2022 appearance, finishing 27th, marked the first time the Pioneers had qualified as a team for the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships in back-to-back years since 1987 to 1990.
In 2022 and 2023, Jaworski had two individuals place in the top 15 of their event at the NCAA Track & Field National Championships. Smith long distance runner Laurel Kruger also won both the 5K and the 10K at the NEWMAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships in 2022.
Under the direction of Jaworski in 2023-24, Pria Parker finished sixth in the mile run at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships and Lyda Martin won the mile run at the New England Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
In addition to his two stints at Smith, Jaworski spent time at Dartmouth as the head coach of the women’s cross-country program and associate head coach of the women’s track and field team from 2014 to 2021. With the Big Green, he was the 2014 Ivy League Cross Country Coach of the Year and helped them to three NCAA Division I Cross Country Championship appearances in 2014, 2017 and 2018. In addition, he coached three All-Americans, 12 First Team and 11 Second Team All-Ivy League performers, 12 cross country all-region honorees and 26 NCAA Qualifiers in his eight years in Hanover.
A graduate of Penn and member of the cross country and track and field programs, Jaworski earned a degree in political science in 2006, while amassing multiple major awards. Those accolades include both All-America and All-Region recognition, eight Ivy League titles, and four straight years of Academic All-Ivy honors. In addition, Jaworski was named USTFCCCA Outdoor Track & Field East Region Athlete of the Year and received two Ivy League Indoor Track & Field Athlete of the Year honors. He went on to earn a master’s degree in exercise science and sport studies from Smith in 2013.
Jaworski's impressive resume extends beyond the collegiate space to both the professional and international levels. He competed for Nike's premier Olympic development distance and middle-distance team, Oregon Track Club Elite where he won the 2007 Penn Relays USA vs. World DMR and placed seventh in the mile at the 2007 USA Indoor Track & Field National Championships. Jaworski also qualified for the 2004 United States Olympic Trials and competed for the United States as part of the World Youth Games.
Prior to hist time at Dartmouth, Jaworski spent a year as the head coach of the track and field and cross country programs at Manhattanville College. He was an assistant coach for both cross country and track and field at the University of Puget Sound from 2009 to 2011.
