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04/10/2012 Hawk Hill Roundup: April 10, 2012Atlantic 10 Baseball Player of the Week Kevin Taylor and women's track head coach Kevin Quinn chat this week on Hawk Hill Roundup. 10/25/2011 Hawk Hill Roundup: October 25, 2011In the final Hawk Hill Roundup of October, women's cross country coach Kevin Quinn talks about the upcoming Atlantic 10 Championships, men's soccer coach Don D'Ambra shares his team's mindset as the end of the season draws near, and senior captains Maggie Lupinski (women's soccer) and Ellen Rowe (field hockey) discuss their upcoming senior days. 10/11/2011 Hawk Hill Roundup: October 11, 2011It's ""Rivalry Week" on the Roundup as field hockey senior Therese Doyle looks ahead to the team's games against Villanova and Massachusetts, women's cross country coach Kevin Quinn discusses his group's preparation for the Atlantic 10 Championship, and women's soccer coach Jess Reynolds and men's soccer freshman Jake Nelson fill us in on their teams' mindsets heading into their respective matches against Temple. Kevin Quinn enters his 46th year directing the Saint Joseph's track and cross country programs, including the last 26 years as the head coach of the women's programs. A 1962 graduate of Saint Joseph's, Quinn joined the Hawk athletic staff as the head coach of the men's cross country and track squads in the fall of 1966, a position he held for 23 years. In 1985, he added the title of women's cross country and track head coach to his résumé, and is now entering his 26th season in that capacity. In July of 1989, Quinn was appointed to the position of assistant athletic director for facilities. In 2001 he was promoted to associate athletic director for facilities, a position from which he recently retired. An outstanding educator, teacher, and motivator, Quinn has led the Hawk track program to great heights during his tenure. His men's cross country squads won two Big 5 titles, while the 1984 men's track team turned in a seventh-place finish at the IC4A Championships. In 1993 the women's cross country team won the Atlantic 10 championship, becoming the first women's sport at Saint Joseph's to accomplish that feat. Under Quinn's tutelage, the 1997 track team set 10 new school records and notched SJU's first-ever women's Penn Relays victory, earning first place in the 4x800m relay. In 2000, Quinn again coached the Hawks to the Atlantic 10 cross country title, earning conference Coach of the Year honors. Over the past four seasons, Quinn's charges have broken school records in track and field on 21 different occasions, including seven in 2005-06. Throughout Quinn's career he has coached eight All-Americans, five IC4A champions, five ECAC champions, 19 male track individual, one relay and four cross country NCAA qualifiers, and nine female track individual and five cross country NCAA qualfiers. He also coached the only SJU NCAA champion, Donna Crumety (triple jump `91). An outstanding athlete in his own right, Quinn once held SJU records in the mile and two-mile runs. A charter member of the Saint Joseph's Track Hall of Fame, he placed third in the 1961 IC4A Cross Country Championships. Quinn also served as one of the team's tri-captains in his senior season. For his dedication and achievements, he was inducted into the Saint Joseph's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001. Quinn, 69, currently resides in Havertown, Pa, with his wife Marie. They are the parents of six children: Kevin, Marie, Sean, Kathleen, Colleen, and Brendan. |
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