Columbia University Women's Track & Field

Daniel Ireland was named the Director of Cross Country/Track & Field in July of 2014, and the 2022-23 season will be his ninth season in charge of the Lions. Ireland came to Columbia with a solid pedigree of coaching that now, as he enters his ninth season in charge, includes 19 NCAA All-Americans; 92 individual NCAA qualifiers; 66 Ivy League Champions and with his nod as Ivy League Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2019, Ireland is a five-time Ivy League Coach of the Year, all of which he earned while in charge of the Columbia program. Ireland has also been a member of several organizations during his time as a head coach, starting in 2012 when he was the USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Region Women's Cross Country Representative, a title he held until the 2014 season. Currently he is the Ivy League Representative on the USTFCCCA DI Track and Field Executive Committee and since 2018 he has held the title of Vice President of the Metropolitan Conference. Under Ireland's tutelage three student-athletes have gone on to represent the United States with Brian Zabilski (2016) and Kenny Vasbinder (2017) each punching their tickets in cross country and Kali Hatcher (2019) throwing on the red, white and blue in the triple jump at the 2019 U21 Pan American Games. Columbia's cross country men posted their best finish since 2017 at the NCAA Cross Country Northeast Regionals, finishing fifth. The Lions also sent a pair of student-athletes to the NCAA Cross Country National Champi

Director of Cross Country/Track & Field Daniel Ireland has officially announced the addition of Dave Lado to the program's coaching staff in December of 2022...

Delaney Rasmussen joined the Columbia Track & Field and Cross Country programs as an assistant coach in July of 2024. Rasmussen spent the 2023-2024 season as...

Kevin LaSure joined the Columbia Track & Field program as an Assistant Coach in December 2025. While Coach LaSure will work with all of the tf/xc student ath...

Lawrence Johnson was named an Assistant Track & Field coach in the fall of 2024 and will oversee Columbia's multi event athletes and pole vaulters. "We are e...

Max Lydum joined the Columbia Track & Field program as an assistant coach in August 2024. Lydum will oversee all of Columbia's throwers. Prior to his move to...

Todd Weisse began his volunteer coaching commitment for the Lions in November, 2009. He served as a volunteer Assistant Coach for two years, primarily helping with distance/mid-distance. He assumed the duties of volunteer Director of Operations in 2011. Weisse brings over 10-years of coaching experience to the Columbia Lions, and is a USAT&F (United States Track and Field) Level 3 certified coach in Sprints/Hurdles; a USAT&F Level 2 certified coach in Youth Coaching; and holds a specialty certification in Sprints/Hurdles/Relays from the USTFCCCA (United States Cross Country Coaches Association; and an IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Academy Diploma in Sprints/Hurdles.