SUNY Cortland Athletics

Matthew Moran completed his third season as Cortland’s men’s and women’s cross country head coach in 2007. He also coaches the distance runners for Cortland's men's and women's track and field teams.

Moran led the Red Dragon men to a third-place national finish in 2007, its best ever, and a fourth-place national showing in 2006. Those teams also won State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) titles, and he earned SUNYAC Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year honors both seasons.

His women's squad placed second in the SUNYAC and fifth regionally in 2007 and was fourth in the league in ninth regionally in 2006. In 2005, Cortland's men were second in the SUNYAC and fifth regionally, while the women finished third in the SUNYAC and sixth regionally.

As Cortland's interim track and field head coach during the 2006-07 season, Moran led the Red Dragon men to a national runner-up finish outdoors and a fifth-place finish indoors, both school-bests. His women's squads placed eighth nationally outdoors, including three individual national titles, and tied for 22nd outdoors. He earned SUNYAC men's and women's Coach of the Year honors both indoors and outdoors and was the 2007 women's outdoor Atlantic Region Coach of the Year.

A USA Track and Field Level 2 certified coach, Moran served as a volunteer assistant for the cross country and track and field programs at Penn State University from 2000-04. He administered daily workouts, aided in workout development and organized and handled all race day details regarding Penn State’s distance athletes.

From 1998-2000, Moran was the head cross country and assistant track and field coach at St. Anthony’s High School in Huntington, N.Y. He was named the 1999 New York State Catholic High School Cross Country Coach of the Year after leading his team to a top-30 national ranking and a Catholic state championship.

Moran earned a bachelor’s of science in kinesiology from The College of William and Mary in 1998. An Academic Computing Fellow at Penn State from 2002-05 and the 2003 Kinesiology Department Graduate Student of the Year, he earned a master’s degree in 2002 and his doctorate in 2005.

A highly accomplished runner, Moran was a member of William and Mary’s cross country team that placed ninth at the 1997 NCAA Division I Championships. He was a member of the IC4A All-East Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Team in the 4 x 800-meter relay in 1996 and set a meet record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:00.3) at the 1998 Colonial Athletic Association Track and Field Championships. Moran was the top American finisher with a 10th-place showing at the 2002 Athens Marathon (2:25.46) and was the 15th American finisher in the 2004 New York City Marathon.

A native of Rocky Point, N.Y., Moran graduated from St. Anthony’s High School in 1993. As a senior, he was named to the Track & Field News High School All-America Team.

Moran and his wife, Megan, currently reside in Ithaca.