XC Project Coach Profiles

XC Project Director - Coach Fred Doyle

Coaching Career - Bishop Fenwick High School

• Head Boys & Girls XC Coach @ Bishop Fenwick High School

• Swampscott HS Teams were State Divisional runner-ups 6 times in Cross Country

• Boys & Girls Track teams each won a State Relays and State Divisional Championship

• Won12 Northeastern Conference Championships - Boys/Girls XC/Track

• Named to the Lynn Item 25th Anniversary Track/XC All Stars - Girls Coach

• Coached 10 Boston Globe All Scholastics

• Dual meet record of 172-41-1

• Inducted into the Swampscott HS Hall of Fame

Running Career - Greater Boston Track Club

• Member of 15 New England and 2 National Championship GBTC teams,  

• Six Top 10 finishes in the New England XC Club Championships.

• Won 3 Individual titles in the New England Track Championships in the Mile, Steeplechase and 3-Mile.

• NE AAU Championship Runner up to Mark Belger (3:57) in the first sub 4:00 Mile ever run in New England in a PR (4:05).

• Set 3 still standing records in Boston College Track Events -

  • Christmas Invitational 2-Mile (8:52),

  • BC Relays Steeplechase (8:54)

  • BC Twilight Series Meets 1500 (3:47).

• National Sub Masters Mile Champion in 1982

• 2 Mile Record Holder (8:46) at Coast Guard Relays

• Great Northern Run Marathon Champion in Scarborough, UK in a course record 2:19:34 leading a GBTC team victory taking 5 of the top 6 places.

• 1980 Olympic Trials participant in the Marathon.

Peter Fortunato: Co-Director of the XC Project

Coaching Career:

• Greater Lowell Technical School XC & Distance Coach

• Tewksbury High School: Boys Head Cross Country Coach (2012 - 2021)
  

• MVC D2 Coach of the Year: 2013, 2016, 2017

• 2012 Lowell Sun Coach of the Year

• 2012 Tewksbury Town Crier Coach of the Year

• Dracut High School: Mid-Distance Coach Spring 2011

• Burlington High School: Sprint Coach Spring 2010

Team Achievements:

• 2012 Division 3 State Champions

• Team All-State Qualifier for 6 straight years (2012-2017)

• Coached high school athletes to a 15:46 5000M, 9:32 2-Mile and 4:22 Mile

Collegiate Running Career:

• UMass Amherst

• 2 Year UMass Amherst Track Captain

• PRs:

  • 15:03   5000M

  • 9:02   2 Mile

  • 9:17   3000M Steeplechase

  • 4:11   Mile

  • 1:53   800m

Fran Cusick: XC Project Head Girls Coach

Coaching Career:

• Head Girls Cross Country/Track Coach - Tewksbury Memorial High Schooll 

• Two-time Boston Globe Coach of the Year  
• 2016 Outdoor Track All-State Champions 
• Coached multiple State Champions and All-Americans at Tewksbury 
• Coach Cusick is a USATF Level 1 certified Track and Field Coach 
• Certified USTFCCCA strength and conditioning coach 
• Director of the Stowe Running Camp