Kristin Cupido - Women's Cross Country Coach - Dartmouth College Athletics

Kristin Cupido

Title:
Assistant Coach - Cross Country & Distance Coach
Email:
Kristin.r.cupido@dartmouth.edu

Kristin Cupido joined the Big Green staff as an assistant coach in November 2024. Cupido will serve as a Cross Country / Distance Coach.

Cupido will enter her second season with the Big Green in 2025-26.

“Kristin has a proven record of success, and we’re excited to add her to the Big Green track & field/cross-country coaching staff. She has worked with several conference championship teams along with multiple NCAA national qualifiers. Her depth of knowledge and experience coaching the distance events will be a tremendous asset to our program. I am confident that she will continue to build upon the legacy of success of the Big Green distance runners!” said Marjorie & Herbert Chase '30 Director of Dartmouth Track & Field and Cross Country, Mike Nelson.

Prior to Darmouth, Cupido worked at Miami University as an assistant coach. Highlights of Cupido’s time in Oxford include men’s cross country team titles in 2018 and 2022 (and eight consecutive top three team finishes overall), as well as RedHawks sweeping the men’s and women’s individual titles at the 2022 MAC meet for the first time ever (Obsaa Feda and Carmen Riano). Miami also claimed the men’s outdoor track title in the spring of 2021.

The RedHawk men finished third in the MAC Cross Country Championships last fall, while Miami’s women came in eighth, with the programs combining for four All-MAC honorees. During the indoor track season, the RedHawk women posted a second consecutive top five team finish at the MAC Championships for the first time in more than a decade, including an additional individual All-MAC recognition. Miami’s women also finished in the top five at the MAC Outdoor Championships in the spring, with the men coming in seventh, as the RedHawks earned seven All-MAC outdoor honors and produced three NCAA East First Round qualifiers. The Red and White collected 60 Academic All-MAC awards between cross country, indoor track and outdoor track, along with two Academic All-District selections.

The 2022-23 season saw Miami produce a collection of eight First-Team and 11 Second-Team All-MAC picks between cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. Three RedHawk runners brought home NCAA All-American accolades (Ava Nuttall, second team in 10K; Carmen Riano and Charlie Harders, honorable mention in steeplechase), and Patrick Wills (cross country) was the MAC Men’s Freshman of the Year. The RedHawks also qualified for a total of 42 Academic All-MAC honors and 10 Academic All-District honors. Miami runners won MAC titles in the women’s 3,000m (indoor), men’s and women’s steeplechase (outdoor), 5K (outdoor) and 10K (outdoor), while the women’s indoor track team posted its first top five MAC finish since 2012.

In 2021-22, Miami’s track teams took fourth place (men) and fifth place (women) at the MAC outdoor championships. Finley Mclear won the men’s 800, while Charlie Harders (steeplechase) and Carmen Riano (steeplechase, 5000) picked up individual titles. Seven Miami student-athletes competed in the NCAA East prelims, highlighted by Riano, who advanced to the national meet and finished as an All-American in the steeplechase (14th place). During the 2022 indoor season, Lotti Roemer won the mile to highlight Miami’s performance at the MAC championships, while the team finished seventh in the league. The cross country campaign featured a pair of top three MAC team finishes, as the women took second place and the men came in third. 62 different RedHawks were recognized as Academic All-MAC between cross country, indoor track and outdoor track.

The 2020-21 academic year was highlighted by the RedHawk men finishing first in the conference’s outdoor track championships. Miami produced a MAC individual champion in the women’s indoor pentathlon (Sarah Bruns) and a myriad of MAC outdoor champions. Olivia Bechtel won the 200 and 400 at the MAC meet that spring, Charlie Harders won the steeplechase, Sean Torpy won the 1500, Finley Mclear won the 800, and Miami’s 4x400 relay team also took first place. The RedHawks also fared exceedingly well on the national stage, with Finley Mclear taking second in the indoor 800m and 4th in the outdoor 800m. The RedHawks’ DMR team (Sean Torpy, Luke Finnegan, Andrew Schroff, Chris Torpy) picked up All-American honors as well, claiming eighth at the NCAA indoor championships. In addition, Sean Torpy became Miami’s first Academic All-American since 2008.

Other accomplishments during Cupido’s time at Miami include Sean Torpy winning the 800, 1500, and 5000 races in the 2019 MAC Outdoor Championships, earning Men’s Most Valuable Performer. Both Torpy brothers went on to become NCAA All-Americans that spring: Sean was 17th in the nation in the 800, and Chris was 14th in the 1500. In 2018, Miami took first place in two men’s (800, 1500) and two women’s (10,000, 4x400 relay) outdoor track events, and Maria Scavuzzo was credited with the Most Outstanding Performance (women’s) at the meet. Chris Torpy also took 23rd place in the 1,500m at the national championships that spring, becoming an All-American for the first time.

Cupido arrived at Miami with a depth of knowledge in coaching distance runners. A native of New Jersey, she attended Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, where she was a strong contributor to the school’s cross country and track and field programs.

Prior to arriving at Miami, Cupido was a graduate assistant at Lipscomb University. She gained her Master of Science in Exercise and Nutrition Science while helping lead the Lady Bisons to a historic six-peat team win at the Atlantic Sun Cross Country Championships, while sending a slew of runners to the NCAA preliminary meet in track.

Before joining the Lipscomb coaching staff, she worked at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. In her first season as the women’s assistant coach, the women’s cross country team captured the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championship, had five All-ODAC Performers, three all-region competitors, and sent two runners to the NCAA Championship.

Her track and field team finished second by a two-point margin at the ODAC Indoor Track and Field Championship and was the runner-up during the outdoor season. The team also set a school record for most points during the outdoor championships with 155 points.

During her second season with the Generals, Cupido was named interim head coach for the women’s cross country team. The team placed fourth at the ODAC Championships and had two All-ODAC performers. The team had one all-region performer as well as one athlete advance to the NCAA Cross Country Championships earning the second best showing in school history at the event.

While competing at Kutztown University, Cupido was a three-time Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Scholar Athlete as well as a three-time member of the NCAA Division II All-Academic Cross Country team. She also earned All-PSAC honors for her performance in the 5,000 meters during the 2008 indoor season.

She led her cross country team to the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships in 2009. In 2010, her team garnered the highest finish in school history placing 13th overall at the championships. During her senior season, Cupido was named team captain of both the cross country and track and field squads.

Cupdio graduated from Kutztown in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science in Leisure and Sports Studies. She is a USTFCCCA Level II Endurance Specialist coach.