Tyler Deck Shipley, currently in his second season as Head Coach of New York University's Men's and Women's Cross Country teams, will now also serve as Head Coach of the Violets' Track & Field teams.
Deck Shipley had been serving as an assistant for the track & field programs, but now replaces David Thompson as head coach.
"When we were faced with a change within our Cross Country and Track & Field programs, it did not take us long to realize that the best person to take over both programs was already on staff," said
Stuart Robinson, NYU's Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of Athletics. "Since his arrival on campus in August 2021, Tyler has demonstrated an ability to set high, yet attainable goals for our student-athletes. His work from year one to year two with cross country proves that he is a talented coach. I have no doubt that he will do the same as the head coach of both programs with the help of an associate head coach and four assistant coaches."
In his first year in charge of the cross country programs, one of Deck Shipley's runners,
Ryan Tobin, qualified for the NCAA Division III Championship. Tobin finished 14
th at the NCAA Niagara Regional, earning All-Region honors and leading the Violets to an eighth-place team finish. He qualified for Nationals as an individual.
On the women's side,
Gabrielle Stankosh and
Athina Zodl both earned All-Region honors, with Stankosh's 17
th-place finish leading the Violets at the Niagara Regional.
This season, both the women's
(#20) and men's
(#28) cross country teams are represented in the National Polls.
"After one year at NYU and seeing the passion of the student-athletes and the will of our athletic department to compete at the highest level in cross country and track, I couldn't be more excited to work with the student-athletes, help them reach their goals and create a program that is competitive in all three season," Deck Shipley said.
Deck Shipley joined NYU after serving as the Assistant Men's and Women's Cross Country and Track & Field Coach at La Salle University. In his one season there, Deck Shipley helped produce the team's first Atlantic 10 Cross Country Champion in more than a decade, Luke Jaciw-Zurakowsky, who went on to compete at the NCAA Division I Championship.
Deck Shipley served at Temple University from 2018-20 as the Director of Operations for the women's track & field team and assisted with both the men's and women's cross country programs . The men posted program-best second-place finishes at the American Athletic Conference (AAC) Championships in both 2018 and 2019. Four runners earned All-Region Honors in 2019, doubling the program's total over the previous 10 years. The women's team produced program-best finishes in 2018 at the AAC Championship (third place) and the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Region Championship (fourth place), while also capturing its first-ever ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference) Championship.
Deck Shipley began his coaching career as a Volunteer Assistant for the men's and women's cross country and track & field teams at Oklahoma State University in 2017-18. Both cross country teams qualified for the NCAA Division I Championships that season, while numerous student-athletes qualified for the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
A 2016 graduate of the University of Puget Sound with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Anthropology, Deck Shipley went on earn a Master of Science in Business from Temple in 2020. As an undergraduate, he was a two-time NCAA Division III All-American (5,000m indoors and 10,000m outdoors) in 2016, a 10-time Northwest Conference Champion and an NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship recipient.
"I am excited for the future of our program under Tyler," Robinson added.
