Alma Mater: University of Puget Sound ‘16
Seasons as NYU Cross Country Head Coach: 6 (including the 2026 season)
Seasons as NYU Track & Field Head Coach: 5 (including the 2026-27 season)
Highest National Cross Country Finishes:
Women: NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 2025, National Runner-Up 2023, 4
th 2024
Men: 4
th 2025, 5
th 2024
Coach of the Year Honors: 9
NCAA/USTFCCCA DIII Women’s Coach of the Year (2025)
NCAA Niagara Region Women’s Coach of the Year (2023, 2024, 2025)
NCAA Niagara Region Men’s Coach of the Year (2024)
UAA Men’s Coaching Staff of the Year: (2024, 2025)
UAA Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year (2023, 2025)
Tyler Deck Shipley, who was hired as head coach of New York University’s men’s and women’s cross country teams in August 2021, was promoted and given added responsibilities as head coach of the track & field teams in October 2022.
Deck Shipley’s run as the leader of both programs hit a pinnacle in 2025 as he guided the women’s cross country team to the NCAA Division III National Championship, the first in program history. In addition, the men’s team took a fourth-place national finish, the program’s best since 2009. The women’s top-five finishers all earned All-America honors, while three members of the men’s team also achieved the distinction.
For his efforts, Deck Shipley earned NCAA/USTFCCCA Division III Women’s Coach of the Year and Niagara Region Women’s Coach of the Year honors, as well as both Men’s and Women’s University Athletic Association (UAA) Coaching Staff of the Year accolades as both teams captured UAA Cross Country titles.
Team and individual success continued into the 2025-26 track & field seasons, with the women finishing 23
rd at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and the men taking 34
th, their best performance since 2005. The teams combined for 13 All-America honors between the two seasons.
The campaigns also included a wealth of academic accolades. The cross country teams combined for 15 USTFCCCA (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association) All-Academic honors while a total of 61 All-UAA Academic accolades were compiled by the cross country and track & field teams.
The 2024-25 season produced an outstanding set of results as NYU’s cross country and track & field teams reached new heights. The 2024 cross country campaigns resulted in top-five national finishes for both squads. The women took fourth and the men were fifth, with the combined result being best among all Division III institutions.
There were many other highlights during the cross country seasons as the men won the UAA Championship and the NCAA Niagara Regional. The women also won the Niagara Regional, placed second at the UAA Championship and finished no worse than third place at any meet.
Individually, Janie Cooper (14
th place) and Lucy Gott (39
th) on the women’s side, and Ryan Tobin (26
th) on the men’s, earned USTFCCCA All-America honors with their performances at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships.
For his efforts, Deck Shipley earned recognition as NCAA Niagara Region Men’s Coach of the Year while NYU received UAA Men’s Coaching Staff of the Year honors.
On the track, a record nine individuals qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships, with three (Tobin – 5k, Cooper – 5k, and Stella Kuttner – 1500m) earning USTFCCCA All-America honors. Indoors, Tobin won the UAA 3k and achieved All-America honors in both the 3k and 5k, while Katherine Cochrane was also a 5k All-American.
The Violets performed exceptionally in their classrooms, as well, with the squads accumulating a total of 24 UAA All-Academic honors for cross country and 40 for track & field.
The 2023-24 campaign was historic in multiple ways, as the women’s cross country team won its first-ever UAA Championship with Grace Richardson claiming the individual title and NYU earning UAA Coaching Staff of the Year honors. The Violets finished as the National Runner-Up at the NCAA Championship, as Richardson, Viv Kane and Morgan Uhlhorn achieved All-America status. Uhlhorn was named UAA Rookie of the Year, and Deck Shipley received Niagara Region Men’s Coach of the Year accolades.
NYU’s women earned three other wins during cross country season, taking first at the Vassar Season Starter, Paul Short Run and Connecticut College Invitational. The men’s team had a solid year as well, placing second at the Niagara Regional and landing five runners on the All-Region Team. The men also qualified for the NCAA Championship as a team and placed 16
th out of 32.
Many Violets performed well during the track season too, as Richardson was named the Niagara Region Women’s Track Athlete of the Year, won the UAA 3k title, was a First Team All-American in both the 3k and 5k at Indoor Nationals, and in both the 5k and 10k at Outdoor Nationals. Additionally, Cochran (5k & 3k) and Cooper (3k) were both Second Team All-Americans at Indoor Nationals for the women.
Under Deck Shipley’s tutelage, rookie Julian Aske represented men’s track & field in the 800m at both Indoor and Outdoor Nationals and nabbed Second Team All-America honors at both events. Tobin also qualified for Outdoor Nationals in the 5k.
Deck Shipley’s Violets also excelled in the classroom during 2023-24, as the cross country/track & field teams earned 66 UAA All-Academic honors between all three seasons, 10 individuals were named USTFCCCA All-Academic, five were selected as Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars and both men’s and women’s cross country were USTFCCCA All-Academic squads. Richardson capped off her stellar campaign with Academic All-America honors while nine Violets made the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team.
During the 2022-23 season, both the cross country and track & field teams produced many highlights. The women earned a berth in the NCAA Championship for the first time since 2013, finishing 26
th nationally as Richardson earned All-America honors with her 37
th-place finish. The women produced five top-three finishes during the season, including victories at the Vassar Season Starter and the University of Rochester Yellowjacket Invitational. The men’s team was also victorious at both of those meets, with Tobin qualifying for the NCAA Championship as an individual.
On the track, Richardson qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 5k while Kane was an outdoor qualifier in the 1500m. On the men’s side, Jon Diaz was the All-Atlantic Region Conference Indoor 800 Meter Champion and Aidin Hasan earned NCAA All-Niagara Region honors in the 5000m.
Both the men’s and women’s cross country and track & field squads earned USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors, while a total of 58 academic honors (37 T&F, 21 cross country) were garnered by student-athletes from a combination of the UAA, USTFCCCA, CSC, and Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars.
In his first year in charge of the cross country programs, Deck Shipley’s guidance helped lift Tobin, then a freshman, to his first NCAA Championship qualification. He finished 14
th at the NCAA Niagara Regional, earning All-Region honors and leading the Violets to an eighth-place team finish.
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.
A total of 10 runners, five from each team, earned UAA Fall Sport All-Academic honors. Both Tobin and Zodl earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors while both the men’s and women’s squads were selected as USTFCCCA All-Academic Teams.
As a track & field assistant in 2021-22, Deck Shipley helped lead the men to sixth-place finishes at both the Indoor and Outdoor UAA Championships and to a 10
th–place showing at the Metropolitan Outdoor Championships. One of Deck Shipley’s distance runners, Mubeen Zainul, claimed the 5,000m at the Chester Quarry Classic.
The women’s track & field team posted a fifth-place finish outdoors at the Ramapo College Invitational, with Katherine Cheng securing a victory in the 1,500m.
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 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 at Temple University from 2018-20. 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.
Also in 2018, the women’s team had the highest team GPA in the AAC.
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.
Possessing USATF Level One Coaching Certification, Deck Shipley is a native of Portland, OR, and resides in New York City.
Shipley’s All-Americans
| Name |
Year |
Championship |
All-America Honor |
Event |
| Grace Richardson |
2022 |
Cross Country |
All-American (37th place) |
Women’s 6K |
| Grace Richardson |
2023 |
Cross Country |
All-American (ninth place) |
Women’s 6K |
| Morgan Uhlhorn |
2023 |
Cross Country |
All-American (15th place) |
Women’s 6K |
| Janie Cooper |
2024 |
Cross Country |
All-American (14th place) |
Women’s 6K |
| Lucy Gott |
2024 |
Cross Country |
All-American (39th place) |
Women’s 6K |
| Ryan Tobin |
2024 |
Cross Country |
All-American (26th place) |
Men’s 8K |
| Jeffrey Chen |
2025 |
Cross Country |
All-American (40th place) |
Men’s 8K |
| Liam Hagerty |
2025 |
Cross Country |
All-American (33rd place) |
Men’s 8K |
| Theodore Udelson-Nee |
2025 |
Cross Country |
All-American (31st place) |
Men’s 8K |
| Josephine Dziedzic |
2025 |
Cross Country |
All-American (11th place) |
Women’s 6K |
| Stella Kuttner |
2025 |
Cross Country |
All-American (38th place) |
Women’s 6K |
| Ashlyn Pallotta |
2025 |
Cross Country |
All-American (29th place) |
Women’s 6K |
| Grace Rowley |
2025 |
Cross Country |
All-American (eighth place) |
Women’s 6K |
| Katherine Cochran |
2024 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (15th place) |
5,000m |
| Katherine Cochran |
2024 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (15th place) |
3,000m |
| Janie Cooper |
2024 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (16th place) |
3,000m |
| Grace Richardson |
2024 |
Indoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (second place) |
5,000m |
| Grace Richardson |
2024 |
Indoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (eighth place) |
3,000m |
| Julian Aske |
2024 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (14th place) |
800m |
| Katherine Cochran |
2025 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (11th place) |
5,000m |
| Josephine Dziedzic |
2025 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (13th place) |
5,000m |
| Ryan Tobin |
2025 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (12th place) |
5,000m |
| Ryan Tobin |
2025 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (10th place) |
3,000m |
| Janie Cooper |
2025 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (14th place) |
3,000m |
| Liam Hagerty |
2026 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (11th place) |
Mile |
| Theodore Udelson-Nee |
2026 |
Indoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (third place) |
5,000m |
| Huckleberry Oakes |
2026 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (14th place) |
Mile |
| Katherine Cochran |
2026 |
Indoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (third place) |
5,000m |
| Katherine Cochran |
2026 |
Indoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (ninth place) |
3,000m |
| Josephine Dziedzic |
2026 |
Indoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (fourth place) |
5,000m |
| Stella Kuttner |
2026 |
Indoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (eighth place) |
Mile |
| Stella Kuttner |
2026 |
Indoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (eighth place) |
3,000m |
| Julian Aske |
2024 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (16th place) |
800m |
| Grace Richardson |
2024 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (seventh place) |
5,000m |
| Grace Richardson |
2024 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (second place) |
10,000m |
| Ryan Tobin |
2025 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (fourth place) |
5,000m |
| Janie Cooper |
2025 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (seventh place) |
5,000m |
| Lucy Gott |
2025 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (14th place) |
10,000m |
| Stella Kuttner |
2025 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (10th place) |
1,500m |
| Grace Rowley |
2025 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (11th place) |
10,000m |
| Theodore Udelson-Nee |
2026 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (third place) |
5,000m |
| Katherine Cochran |
2026 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (fourth place) |
10,000m |
| Katherine Cochran |
2026 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
Second Team All-American (13th place) |
5,000m |
| Josephine Dziedzic |
2026 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (fifth place) |
10,000m |
| Josephine Dziedzic |
2026 |
Outdoor Track & Field |
First Team All-American (seventh place) |
5,000m |
