Sheehan named women’s cross country coach at Yale – New Haven Register

Former Louisville assistant coach Taryn Sheehan has been named Yale’s women’s cross country coach and will work with the middle distance and distant runners for the Bulldogs’ women’s track and field program.

Sheehan joins the Bulldogs after spending three seasons at Western Michigan, where she was associate head coach for track and field/cross country and also served as interim head coach for the 2019 outdoor track season. She helped the women’s cross country team improve its finish at NCAA Regionals each of the past two years, rising from 19th in 2016 to 16th in 2017 and 14th in 2018. She coached Hanne Christensen to the 2017 NCAA Championships.

From 2011 to 2016, Sheehan was an assistant cross country/track & field coach at Louisville, where she helped the Cardinals to their best finish in school history at the NCAA cross country regionals in 2015. During her tenure, Louisville runner set school records in five events indoors and six events outdoors.

Sheehan takes the helm of a Yale women’s cross country team that is coming off a third-place finish at last year’s NCAA Northeast Regional.