Princeton University Athletics
Women's Cross Country
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- roskiewz@princeton.edu
- Phone:
- (609) 258-1231
Ed Roskiewicz is in his 14th season with the Tigers as the assistant cross country and track & field coach, joining the program in 1999. He works closely with all of the field events, sprints, hurdles and multi-event athletes. In 2012, Roskiewicz was promoted to associate head coach of women's track & field and cross country.
During his time at Princeton, Roskiewicz has helped the team to 10 Ivy League titles, five in cross country (2006, '07, '08, '09, '10), three in indoor track & field ('08, '10, '11) and two in outdoor track & field ('09, '11). His success includes winning the Ivy League Triple Crown in 2010-11, as Princeton became just the 10th school in NCAA history to swept all six titles (men and women) in a single academic year.
Roskiewicz has had teams and/or individuals in the NCAA Championship every year for the last 11 years.
Prior to coming to Princeton, Roskiewicz was at Rider University, where he served as the head coach of the men and women’s cross country and track and field teams. During his seven-year tenure, he led the men’s teams to five Northeast Conference championships and 10 second-place finishes. In addition, Roskiewicz started the Bronc women’s cross country program in 1993 and led that team to five second-place conference finishes. Overall he coached over 100 individual conference champions, 34 All-East performers and four NCAA qualifiers.
Before his time at Rider, Roskiewicz served as the associate coach of the men’s and women’s cross country and track and field programs at Rutgers for six years.
Roskiewicz earned a B.S. in health, physical education and recreation from Penn State University in 1982 and a M.S. in the same field at the University of Tennessee in 1986. While a student at Penn State, Roskiewicz was elected as the track team’s captain and was named the team’s most outstanding athlete his senior year. He later served as a coaching assistant for the Nittany Lions as well as a graduate assistant at Tennessee.
In 1984 Roskiewicz qualified for the Olympic Trials in the triple jump, and he was nationally ranked through 1986. Roskiewicz has been named to various track and field committees including the IC4A Jury of Appeals, the ECAC Technical Committee and the Games Committee of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. In 2002, he completed his 20th year of coaching Division I track and field.
Roskiewicz lives in Robbinsville with his wife, Kim, who is employed as Assistant Dean of Administration of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. They have two daughters, Kathryn and Jordan.
