Dartmouth College Women's Cross Country

Mike Nelson joins the Big Green as the Marjorie & Herbert Chase ’30 Director of Dartmouth Track & Field and Cross Country in August 2024. Nelson enters his s...

Kristin Cupido joined the Big Green staff as an assistant coach in November 2024. Cupido will serve as a Cross Country / Distance Coach. Cupido will enter her second season with the Big Green in 2025-26. “Kristin has a proven record of success, and we’re excited to add her to the Big Green track & field/cross-country coaching staff. She has worked with several conference championship teams along with multiple NCAA national qualifiers. Her depth of knowledge and experience coaching the distance events will be a tremendous asset to our program. I am confident that she will continue to build upon the legacy of success of the Big Green distance runners!” said Marjorie & Herbert Chase '30 Director of Dartmouth Track & Field and Cross Country, Mike Nelson. Prior to Darmouth, Cupido worked at Miami University as an assistant coach. Highlights of Cupido’s time in Oxford include men’s cross country team titles in 2018 and 2022 (and eight consecutive top three team finishes overall), as well as RedHawks sweeping the men’s and women’s individual titles at the 2022 MAC meet for the first time ever (Obsaa Feda and Carmen Riano). Miami also claimed the men’s outdoor track title in the spring of 2021. The RedHawk men finished third in the MAC Cross Country Championships last fall, while Miami’s women came in eighth, with the programs combining for four All-MAC honorees. During the indoor track season, the RedHawk women posted a second consecutive top five team finish at the MAC Championship

After serving as the Assistant Athletics Director for Dartmouth Peak Performance (DP2)/Academics from late 2019 into 2022, and the Associate Athletics Director for Enrollment Management from 2022 through 2025 Lyndsay Ostler was promoted to the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Development. In her current role, Ostler acts as the liaison between athletics and the offices of admissions and financial aid while managing the admissions support process. She also assists the coaches with the recruitment process in evaluating student-athletes' academics and navigating the admissions application process and deadlines while providing strategic leadership to Academic Support and Career Development. Ostler led the DP2 academic service area in her initial role with the department, focusing on advising student-athletes, creating high-impact programming and supporting holistic development. She also oversaw the Faculty Advisors program for athletics and served as a point person for community service, student-athlete handbook, SAAC, the Dartmouth Celebration of Excellence and campus connections. Prior to her arrival at Dartmouth, Ostler spent seven years at Colby-Sawyer College as a coach and administrator. As the assistant athletics director and senior woman administrator, she served as the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Advisor, coordinated service opportunities and awareness events, and created pre-season programming on "Maximizing Campus Resources for Stud

Assistant Director of Strategic Communications (Women's Soccer, Men's Basketball, M/W Cross Country, M/W Track & Field, Softball, Men's Tennis, Interim Women's Rowing)

Tory Engel joined the Big Green staff in 2022. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware and her masters from the California Universit...