Princeton University Athletics
Women's Cross Country
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- tharring@princeton.edu
Thomas Harrington beings his 11th year with the women’s track & field team in 2015-16. He serves primarily as the sprints and hurdles coach in a position he has held since 2005.
Harrington has been a high school coach in the local area since 1987. Collectively, his teams have amassed over 200 wins, 31 championships and three All-America awards.
He began both the girls’ cross country and track & field programs at the Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Princeton. The cross country team has since gone on to win six consecutive league championships and five state championships, while the track team won four straight league and state championships. Prior to his tenure at Stuart Country Day, Harrington was head coach at Lawrence High School. In 1987 his team won the Mercer County Spring Championship, a year after winning the Group II Indoor State Championship. From 1987-1994, his Lawrence High teams won 11 divisional crowns.
Harrington has been a physical education teacher and aquatics instructor since 1980 for the Trenton Board of Education. He is chair of the health and physical education department at the Hedgepeth/Williams Middle School in Trenton.
He received both his bachelors and masters degrees from Trenton State (now The College of New Jersey), where he competed for the cross country and track & field teams. He had a three-year undefeated dual meet streak in the 100 meters.
Harrington and his wife, Janet, have three children, Angela, Jenae and Stephen.
