SUNY Cortland Athletics

Michelle Franklin Rauber was a three-time national champion distance runner at and has been one of New York State’s top track and field and cross country coaches since the mid-1990s at Tully High School.
 
* A native of Homer, N.Y., she earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Cortland in 1991 and a master’s degree in elementary education from Cortland in 1996 (also took grad courses in spring of 1998)
 
* Women’s cross country/track and field distance runner at Cortland after transferring from Edinboro University
 
* Three-time NCAA Division III track and field national champion in 1998 (1,500-meter indoor title, 3,000-meter and 10,000-meter outdoor titles) and earning New York Region Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year honor
 
* Two-time cross country All-American, finishing 17th nationally in 1989 and 1995
 
* Six-time State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) track and field champion – indoor 1,500 and 3,000 meters in 1998, outdoor 3,000 and 5,000 meters and 4x800-meter relay in 1998, and 4x800-meter relay in 1990
 
* Member of Cortland women’s cross country teams that won 1989 and 1995 NCAA titles, indoor track and field teams that finished third nationally in 1990, fifth in 1996 and ninth in 1998, and outdoor track and field team that tied for seventh in 1998
 
* Part of five SUNYAC championship teams (1989 and 1995 cross country, 1990 and 1998 indoor track and field, 1998 outdoor track and field)
 
* Rondout Valley Central Schools elementary education teacher (1991-94) and cross country and track and field coach (1992-94)
 
* Elementary education teacher in Tully since 1994 and Tully High girls’ cross country coach since 1997, girls’ outdoor track and field head coach since 1998 (assistant coach 1995-98), and girls’ indoor track and field head coach since 2018
 
* 2017 New York State Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year and 2018 Niagara Association Bob Ivory Coaching Award winner
 
* Her Tully cross country teams have won three state titles (2013, 2014, 2018) and were runners-up five times, in addition to winning 12 sectional titles and 20 Onondaga High School League (OHSL) championships
 
* Her Tully outdoor track and field teams have won 12 sectional titles and 21 OHSL crowns and her indoor track and field teams won league titles in 2018 and 2019 and one sectional title
 
* Coached more than 50 individual and 10 relay state championship track and field qualifiers, including four state champions, along with five cross country state title-winners, a USATF cross country champion and a Pan American cross country champion
 
* Created Tully Junior Cross Country program for boys and girls grades 3-6 and Junior Outdoor Track and Field program for boys and girls grades K-6
 
* Member of Homer High Athletics Hall of Fame inaugural induction class in 2005