Eisenreich Named Head Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Coach

Michelle Eisenreich, who helped Stanford to four NCAA team top 10 finishes in her four years with the program and who has 12 years of experience coaching in the Ivy League, has been named the head coach of women's track and field and cross country at Princeton University.

Eisenreich will become only the second coach in the 39-year history of the program as she takes over for Peter Farrell, who retired following the conclusion of the 2015-16 academic year.

"Coach Eisenreich brings to Princeton a unique and ideal perspective to our storied women's track and field/cross country program" said Ford Family Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux. "She has proven herself to be both an extremely talented coach, leader and mentor and her experience and success in both the Ivy League and at the highest national level will allow her to build upon our program's tremendous history of success both in the league and nationally. We could not be more thrilled to welcome Coach Eisenreich to Princeton."

Eisenreich has spent the last four years as the Associate Head Coach for the Cardinal. During that time, Stanford finished in the top seven at the NCAA outdoor championships twice and in the top eight indoors twice, including a seventh-place finish outdoors this past spring. She coached 10 All-Americas, in the women's javelin, shot, hammer, discus, and the men's hammer, while three athletes won Pac 12 championships in the women's javelin and discus. Eisenreich helped her athletes set school records in both the women's javelin and the weight throw and has coached athletes at the World Juniors, World University Games and Junior Pan Am Championships.

"I am humbled by this tremendous opportunity to not only work at one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the world but to also lead a women's track and field/ cross country program with such a rich history and tradition of excellence as Princeton's." Eisenreich said. "Director of Athletics, Mollie Marcoux and the athletics administration have created a wonderful environment for athletic success and I am eager to get to work writing a new chapter of achievement for the women's program."

Eisenreich was a standout student-athlete herself, having graduated from Cum Laude from Carleton College in 1996. She received All-America honors in the discus; was conference champion in the discus and indoor and outdoor shot put; and twice earned Academic All-Conference honors. She was inducted into the Carleton Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.

She began her coaching career while earning her master's degree in motor learning and development at Purdue. From there she coached at Colgate for two years, where she worked with both the men's and women's throwers, jumpers and multi-event athletes.

She went from Colgate to Brown, where she would spend 12 years working with the Bears. Her final two and a half years there saw her have the position of Director of Men's and Women's Track and Field and Cross Country.

During that time, she would lead Brown's women's program to one second-place and two third-place finishes at outdoor Heps and the Brown men to two third-place finishes and earned the 2009 USTFCCCA North East Region men's assistant coach of the year. Eisenreich coached 53 All-Ivy League athletes in the throws and multi-events including a three-time All-America and NCAA national champion Craig Kinsley in the men's javelin, who she later coached in the 2012 Olympics. Her athletes set school records in the women's indoor and outdoor shot put, weight, hammer, discus, javelin and men's javelin and at the time set Ivy Heps records in the women's shot and hammer.

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