Staff Directory
Eisenreich, Michelle
Michelle Eisenreich
- Title:
- Head Coach of Track & Field and Cross Country (Throws, High Jump, Combined Events)
- Email:
- Alma Mater:
- Carleton '96
Michelle Eisenreich is just the second head coach of the Princeton women's track and field team in program history, taking the reigns in 2016. Eisenreich has full oversight of both women’s track & field and cross country.
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In her first season as head coach the Tigers finished fourth at Indoor Ivy Heps and third at Outdoor Heps with eight Tigers earning their way to the NCAA East Regionals. Julia Ratcliffe won both the weight throw and hammer throw titles during the year. The 2015 NCAA Champion, Ratcliffe earned her third first-team All-America honor in the hammer throw with a sixth-place finish in 2017. She graduated Princeton with the program and Ivy League record. Allison Harris won both the indoor and outdoor Ivy Heps pole vault titles and competed in both the indoor and outdoor NCAA Championships in 2017. She was 10th indoors and 24th outdoors. Harris also left her mark in the records book holding the pole vault record both at Princeton and the Ivy League.
In 2018, the Tigers were sixth at indoor Ivy Heps before taking third place outdoors with six Tigers qualifying for the NCAA East Regionals. Obiageri Amaechi captured first-team All-America honors in the discus taking seventh in the final. She holds both the Princeton and Ivy League record in the discus. After her freshman year, Amaechi won USA Juniors in the discus and was 14th at the IAAF Junior Worlds.
In 2019, Princeton finished fifth at Indoor Heps and fourth at Outdoor Heps. Seven Tigers qualified for the NCAA East Regional Championships (Jackie Berardo, Madison Offstein, Carly Bonnet, Rylie Pease, Allie Klimkiewicz, Sophie Cantine, and Obiageri Amaechi). Amaechi would also advance to the NCAA Championships
In the shortened 2019-20 season, Eisenreich guided the Tigers to a fourth-place finish at Indoor Heps and a total of 34 all-time performances added to their all-time top-10 list.
In 2022 Princeton finished in second at Indoor Ivy Heps. The Tigers earned five first place finishes during the indoor championships to compile a total of 112 points. The outdoor season saw a third place finish for Princeton at the Ivy Heps Championships with 133 points earned from the Tigers and seven women qualifying for East Regional competition. Javelin thrower Kate Joyce  finished in sixth, collecting First Team All-America honors, and shattering the Ivy League record with a 51.96 throw. Caroline Trimm earned honorable mention All-Amercan status in the 1500m.
In 2023, the Tigers placed second at both Indoor and Outdoor Heps. The Indoor Championships saw five Ivy Champions crowned in six events in addition to the highest Indoor Heps total in program history with 151.5 points. The Tigers also took second place at Outdoor Heps, with fourteen women qualifying for NCAA East Regional competition. Javelin thrower Kate Joyce advanced to the NCAA Championships, earning Honorable Mention All American status. 2023 saw six, new program records set for the indoor season in addition to four school records set during outdoor competition.Â
In 2024, the Tigers placed second at both Indoor and Outdoor Heps. The Indoor Championships saw four individuals and one relay crowned Ivy Champions. The Tigers also took second place at Outdoor Heps, with six individual Ivy Champions. At 184 points, the Tigers scored the 6th highest point total in Ivy History and crushed the previous Princeton record for the most points at a Heps meet. Eleven women qualified for the NCAA Outdoor East Regional Championships and five women qualified for the NCAA Championships, the most in program history. Georgina Scoot, Siniru Iheoma, Tessa Mudd, and Shea Greene all earned All-American honors. Eleven different school records and four Ivy records were broken in the 2024 season.Â
Eisenreich comes to Princeton after having helped Stanford to four NCAA team top 10 finishes in her four years with the program and after a 12-year coaching term at Brown.
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Eisenreich spent 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 six 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 coached Cardinal athletes at the World Juniors, World University Games and Junior Pan Am Championships.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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In her first season as head coach the Tigers finished fourth at Indoor Ivy Heps and third at Outdoor Heps with eight Tigers earning their way to the NCAA East Regionals. Julia Ratcliffe won both the weight throw and hammer throw titles during the year. The 2015 NCAA Champion, Ratcliffe earned her third first-team All-America honor in the hammer throw with a sixth-place finish in 2017. She graduated Princeton with the program and Ivy League record. Allison Harris won both the indoor and outdoor Ivy Heps pole vault titles and competed in both the indoor and outdoor NCAA Championships in 2017. She was 10th indoors and 24th outdoors. Harris also left her mark in the records book holding the pole vault record both at Princeton and the Ivy League.
In 2018, the Tigers were sixth at indoor Ivy Heps before taking third place outdoors with six Tigers qualifying for the NCAA East Regionals. Obiageri Amaechi captured first-team All-America honors in the discus taking seventh in the final. She holds both the Princeton and Ivy League record in the discus. After her freshman year, Amaechi won USA Juniors in the discus and was 14th at the IAAF Junior Worlds.
In 2019, Princeton finished fifth at Indoor Heps and fourth at Outdoor Heps. Seven Tigers qualified for the NCAA East Regional Championships (Jackie Berardo, Madison Offstein, Carly Bonnet, Rylie Pease, Allie Klimkiewicz, Sophie Cantine, and Obiageri Amaechi). Amaechi would also advance to the NCAA Championships
In the shortened 2019-20 season, Eisenreich guided the Tigers to a fourth-place finish at Indoor Heps and a total of 34 all-time performances added to their all-time top-10 list.
In 2022 Princeton finished in second at Indoor Ivy Heps. The Tigers earned five first place finishes during the indoor championships to compile a total of 112 points. The outdoor season saw a third place finish for Princeton at the Ivy Heps Championships with 133 points earned from the Tigers and seven women qualifying for East Regional competition. Javelin thrower Kate Joyce  finished in sixth, collecting First Team All-America honors, and shattering the Ivy League record with a 51.96 throw. Caroline Trimm earned honorable mention All-Amercan status in the 1500m.
In 2023, the Tigers placed second at both Indoor and Outdoor Heps. The Indoor Championships saw five Ivy Champions crowned in six events in addition to the highest Indoor Heps total in program history with 151.5 points. The Tigers also took second place at Outdoor Heps, with fourteen women qualifying for NCAA East Regional competition. Javelin thrower Kate Joyce advanced to the NCAA Championships, earning Honorable Mention All American status. 2023 saw six, new program records set for the indoor season in addition to four school records set during outdoor competition.Â
In 2024, the Tigers placed second at both Indoor and Outdoor Heps. The Indoor Championships saw four individuals and one relay crowned Ivy Champions. The Tigers also took second place at Outdoor Heps, with six individual Ivy Champions. At 184 points, the Tigers scored the 6th highest point total in Ivy History and crushed the previous Princeton record for the most points at a Heps meet. Eleven women qualified for the NCAA Outdoor East Regional Championships and five women qualified for the NCAA Championships, the most in program history. Georgina Scoot, Siniru Iheoma, Tessa Mudd, and Shea Greene all earned All-American honors. Eleven different school records and four Ivy records were broken in the 2024 season.Â
Eisenreich comes to Princeton after having helped Stanford to four NCAA team top 10 finishes in her four years with the program and after a 12-year coaching term at Brown.
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Eisenreich spent 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 six 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 coached Cardinal athletes at the World Juniors, World University Games and Junior Pan Am Championships.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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| Resume | ||
| Princeton | Head Coach | 2016-present |
| Stanford | Associate Head Coach | 2012-2016 |
| Brown | Dir. XC and Track & Field | 2010-2012 |
| Asst. Throws Coach | 2000-2010 | |
| Colgate | Assistant Coach | 1998-2000 |
| Purdue | Women's Volunteer Assistant Coach | 1996-1998 |
| Â By the Numbers |
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| 1 | Olympian | ||
| Â Craig Kinsley (javelin) | 2012 | ||
| 2 | World Junior Championship Qualifiers | ||
| Â Â Â Â Angela McAuslan-Kelly (hammer/Princeton) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Siniru Iheoma (discus/Princeton) | 2022 | ||
| Â Â Â Â Obiageri Amaechi (discus/Princeton) | 2018 | ||
| Â Â Â Â Valeri Allman (discus/Stanford) | 2014 | ||
| 1 | NCAA Champion | ||
| Â Craig Kinsley (Brown) Javelin | 2010 | ||
| 1 | USTFCCCA Coach of the Year Awards | ||
| Â Northeast Regional Asst. Coach | 2009 | ||
| 61 | Conference Champions | ||
| Â 32 individuals (Ivy/Brown) | |||
| Â 6 individuals (Pac 12/Stanford) | |||
| Â 31 individuals, 7Â relays (Ivy/Princeton) | |||
| Â Indoor | |||
| Â Â 4x800 | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Triple Jump (Scoot) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Long Jump (Scoot) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Pole Vault (Mudd) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Â Â DMR | 2023 | ||
| Â Â Â Â High Jump (Wood) | 2023 | ||
| Â Â Â Â Long Jump (Kelly) | 2023 | ||
| Â Â Â Â Triple Jump (Kelly) | 2023 | ||
| Â Â Â Pole Vault (Mudd) | 2023 | ||
| Â Â 800m (Hock) | 2022 | ||
| Â Â 1000m (Timm) | 2022 | ||
| Â Â Â Â 4x800 | 2022 | ||
| Â Â Triple Jump (Rozario) | 2022 | ||
| Â Â Shot Put (Iheoma) | 2022 | ||
| Â Â DMR | 2019 | ||
| Â Â 800m (Berado) | 2018 | ||
| Â Â Pole Vault (Harris) | 2017 | ||
| Â Â Weight Throw (Ratcliffe) | 2017 | ||
| Â Â 4x800 | 2017 | ||
| Â Outdoor | |||
| Â Â Heptathlon (Jongejeugd) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Javelin (Greene) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Shot Put (Iheoma) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Long Jump (Kelly) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Triple Jump (Scoot) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Pole Vault (Mudd) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Pole Vault (Mudd) | 2023 | ||
| Â Â Triple Jump (Kelly) | 2023 | ||
| Â Â Javelin (Greene) | 2023 | ||
| Â Â 4x100 | 2022 | ||
| Â Â Shot Put (Iheoma) | 2022 | ||
| Â Â Discus (Iheoma) | 2022 | ||
| Â Â Javelin (Joyce) | 2022 | ||
| Â Â Discus (Amaechi) | 2019 | ||
| Â Â Javelin (Pease) | 2019 | ||
| Â Â Â Pole Vault (Harris) | 2017 | ||
| Â Â Â Hammer Throw (Ratcliffe) | 2017 | ||
| Â Â Â Steeplechase (Bird) | 2017 | ||
| Â Â Â 4x800 | 2017 | ||
| Â Cross Country | |||
| Â Â Forrest | 2017 | ||
| 32 | All-American Honors | ||
| Â 10 at Brown | |||
| Â 10 at Stanford | |||
| Â 5Â at Princeton | |||
| Â Â Outdoor | |||
| Â Â Â Mudd (Pole Vault) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Â Scoot (Triple Jump) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Â Iheoma (Discus) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Â Â Â Greene (Javelin) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Â Joyce (Javelin) | 2023 | ||
| Â Â Â Â Â Joyce (Javelin) | 2022 | ||
| Â Â Â Amaechi (Discus)Â | 2021 | ||
| Â Â Â Â Â Amaechi (Discus) | 2018 | ||
| Â Â Â Â Â Harris (Pole Vault) | 2017 | ||
| Â Â Â Â Â Ratcliffe (Hammer) | 2017 | ||
| Â Indoor | |||
| Â Â Â Mudd (Pole Vault) | 2024 | ||
| Â Â Â Â Â Harris (Pole Vault) | 2017 |
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