Stockton University Athletics

Nick McDonough is in his third year at Stockton, where he currently serves as head men’s and women's cross country coach and assistant track & field coach at Stockton. McDonough has been the head women’s cross country coach since 2019 and he added the head men’s cross country coach role in 2022.
 
McDonough arrived at Stockton in 2019 with 23 years of college coaching experience, highlighted by an NCAA Division III national championship in men's cross country while at New York University. In 2021, he led the Osprey women’s cross country team to the program’s second NJAC championship and its best finish ever at NCAA Regionals with sixth place.
 
In McDonough’s first year with the Ospreys, his squad placed fourth at the NJAC Championships and in the top half, 19th of 38 teams, at the NCAA Atlantic Regionals. The 2020 season was shortened to just two meets due to COVID, with the Ospreys finishing second out of five squads at the NJAC Championships.
 
McDonough spent 16 years (1998-2014) as the head cross country and track & field coach at NYU, steering the Violets to great success on the national stage. He helmed the men's cross-country team to the NCAA title in 2007 after a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championships in 2006.
 
McDonough led the NYU women's cross-country team to sixth place at the NCAA meet in 2013, and his 2004 and 2007 men's indoor track & field teams each finished 10th at the NCAA Championships. Overall, he coached 42 All-Americans and his student-athletes set 85 school records in track & field.
 
McDonough was selected NCAA Division III Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2007 plus Atlantic Region Coach of the Year (2006-07, 12-13) and University Athletic Association Cross Country Coach of the Year (2006-09) four times apiece during his tenure at NYU.
 
More recently, McDonough was the head men's and women's cross country/head women's track & field coach at Division I Manhattan College from 2014-16. He oversaw the rebuilding of all three programs, including recruiting and roster expansion, and elevated the Jaspers to greater success in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
 
McDonough coached the Manhattan men's cross country team to its highest MAAC finish in a decade, women's cross country team to its highest finish in eight years and women's track team to a top-three conference finish.
 
After competing on the college level at Syracuse University and earning a bachelor's degree in political science & government, McDonough began his coaching career with a five-year stint as an assistant cross country/track & field coach at Seton Hall University (1993-98). He coached eight Division I All-Americans and numerous NCAA qualifiers in the mid-distance and distance events while on the Pirates' staff.