Roger An enters 2024-2045 in his third year at the Division 1 level, and his sixth coaching at the college ranks. He
previously served as the short sprints/relays coach and hurdles assistant at Amherst College and also assistant head
track and field/cross country coach at Lake Superior State University.
At the Mount in ‘23-’24, An’s duties were mainly on splitting the sprinters and relays with director Phillips, with
contributions in the hurdles in his first year. School records fell in both the men’s 60 and 100 meters, the women’s
60 meters was tied, and 30/33 of the athletes that An coached set college or lifetime bests. Numerous sprinters and
long hurdlers earned all conference honors, in the m 60 (1st), w 60 (1st), m 200 (2nd), w 200 (1st), m 400 (from
48.48 to 47.99 and first podium indiv. At 3rd), m 400 hurdles (1st), m & w 4 x 400 (3rd), w 4 x 100 (3rd), and m
100 (2nd), w 100 (1st & MAAC Champs record).
The season culminated with top men’s sprinter Todd Charles breaking the 100m school record and improving from
10.46 to 10.25, qualifying for the first round of the Division 1 NCAA Championships for both the first time in his
career, and the first time in modern program history in over 25 years.
In ‘24-’25, His duties were expanded to being significantly more involved with the hurdles, highlighted by a 1-3-4
finish in the 60 meter hurdles at the Indoor MAAC Championships. The men placed 2nd at the Outdoor
Championship, the highest for a Mount Sports Program on the year. The Outdoor Conference Championship
highlights resulted in All-Conference Honors for w 100h (3rd), m 110h (2nd, &3rd), m 400h (2nd), w 4 x 100 (3rd,
m 4 x 100 (3rd), and The Indoor Conference Championship highlights resulted in, w60 (3rd), m60 (3rd) w200 (3rd),
m200 (4th 5th) m60h (1st, 3rd, 4th), w 400 (5th). During the Outdoor Conference Championship meet, The Mount
had at least one athlete qualify for every men’s and women’s sprint or hurdle final, making it one of two programs at
the meet to do so.
Being an Olympic year, the program had three athletes qualify for the Canadian National Championships, Which
also serve as the effective Canadian Olympic Trials for the selection of the national team.
29 of 34 athletes broke a college or lifetime best, showing over 85% of the team making improvements on the year.
At Amherst College in ’21-22, Amherst’s top sprinter Henry Buren re-broke his all time school record in the 100
meters, registering a 10.79 officially, with a 10.63 w time. For the first time, he won the gold medal at the NESCAC
championships,as well as earning all-region honors, (1st time top three and top five 60/200 DIII Regional) An also
assisted the head coach in the hurdle group. He helped assist multi athlete Jack Trent to set personal bests in the 60
dash and 60 hurdles to qualify for the NCAA DIII indoor Championship meet for the first time. The team finished
top 3 out of all division 3 teams in New England at the indoor regional meet, the team’s highest score since 2007, in
over 15 years.
An co-headed the sprint crew at Lake Superior State for the 2020 and ‘21 seasons, and was the program's strength
and conditioning coordinator for all student-athletes on the team. 19 of the 21 sprinters he coached in year 1, roughly
90 percent, broke personal records and the school's top women's sprinter Elizabeth Setsuda improved her top indoor
marks from 8.64 to 7.86 in the 60 meters and from 28.61 to 25.60 in the 200 meters. She contributed as the women’s
highest point scorer, the team surpassing the team total for the past four seasons combined at the meet. During An's
tenure, Lake Superior's women's team had its highest-scoring conference meet since 2013 during indoor 2020 with
11 points.
An holds the CSCS certification, from the National strength and conditioning association, and also is a certified
nutritional consultant by the N.A.S.M. In summer 2023 he earned his USATF Level 2 Certification in
sprints/hurdles/relays from former sprint coaches at The University of Oregon and UCLA, and is also a USTFCCCA
Certified Speed Specialist Coach. He graduated with a bachelors of Africana Studies from The College of Wooster
‘18 and a master's of sport management from Southern Nazarene University ‘20
