Speed Project Coach Profiles

Speed Project Director - Coach Fred Doyle

Coaching Career - Bishop Fenwick High School

• Head Boys & Girls XC Coach @ Bishop Fenwick HS

• 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.

Jessica Nelson: Speed Project Head Coach

Coaching Career:

• Coaching Career - Burlington High School

• Assistant Coach from 2014-2015

• Head Coach 2016-present

• K-12 School Counselor

• EMASS Girls Indoor Track Coach of the Year 2022

• Boston Globe All Scholastic Coach 2022

• D3 Relay Champions 2022

• D3 MIAA State Meet Champions 2022

• Middlesex League 12 Champions 2022

Collegiate Running Career - University of Maine, Orono:

• New England Champion (D1) in Heptathlon 2014

• PRs: ○ Pentathlon 3457

•  ○ Heptathlon 4809

High School Running Career:  Burlington High School 2006-2010