Tyler Deck Shipley - Head Coach - Men's Cross Country Coaches (2024)

Tyler Deck Shipley, who was hired as head coach of New York University’s men’s and women’s cross country teams in August 2021, was promoted and given added responsibilities as head coach of the track & field teams in October 2022.

The 2023-24 campaign was historic in multiple ways, as NYU women’s cross country won its first University Athletic Association (UAA) Championship with Grace Richardson claiming the individual title. Deck Shipley’s women’s cross country team also finished as the National Runner-Up at the NCAA Championship for its highest finish in program history as Richardson, Viv Kane and Morgan Uhlhorn achieved All-America status. Uhlhorn was named the UAA Rookie of the Year while Deck Shipley received Niagara Region Coach of the Year accolades from the USTFCCCA (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association).

NYU’s women earned three other wins during cross country season, taking first at the Vassar Season Starter, Paul Short Run and Connecticut College Invitational. The men’s cross country team had a solid year as well, placing second at the Niagara Regional and landing five on the All-Region team. The men also qualified for the NCAA Championship as a team and placed 16^th out of 32 programs.

Many Violets performed well during the track season too, as Richardson was named the Niagara Region Women’s Track Athlete of the Year, won the UAA 3k title and was a First Team All-American in both the 3k and 5k at Indoor Nationals and in both the 5k and 10k at Outdoor Nationals. Additionally, Katherine Cochran (5k & 3k) and Janie Cooper (3k) were both Second Team All-Americans at Indoor Nationals for the women.

Under Deck Shipley’s tutelage, rookie Julian Aske represented men’s track & field in the 800m at both Indoor and Outdoor Nationals and nabbed Second Team All-America honors at both events. Ryan Tobin also qualified for Outdoor Nationals in the 5k.

Deck Shipley’s Violets also excelled in the classroom during 2023-24, as the cross country/track & field teams earned 66 UAA All-Academic honors between all three seasons, 10 individuals were named USTFCCCA All-Academic, five were selected as Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars and both men’s and women’s cross country were USTFCCCA All-Academic squads.

During the 2022-23 season, both the cross country and track & field teams produced many highlights. The women’s cross country team earned a berth in the NCAA Championship for the first time since 2013, finishing 26^th nationally as Richardson earned All-America honors with her 37^th-place finish. The women produced five top-three finishes during the season, including victories at the Vassar Season Starter and the University of Rochester Yellowjacket Invitational. The men’s team was also victorious at both of those meets, with Tobin qualifying for the NCAA Championship as an individual.

On the track, Richardson qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 5k while Kane was an outdoor qualifier in the 1500m. On the men’s side, Jon Diaz was the All-Atlantic Region Conference Indoor 800 Meter Champion and Aidin Hasan earned NCAA All-Niagara Region honors in the 5000m.

Both the men’s and women’s cross country and track & field squads earned All-Academic Team honors, while a total of 58 academic honors (37 T&F, 21 cross country) were garnered by student-athletes from a combination of the UAA, USTFCCCA, CSC (College Sports Communicators), and Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars.

In his first year in charge of the cross country programs, Deck Shipley’s guidance helped lift Tobin, then a freshman, to his first NCAA Championship qualification. Tobin finished 14^th at the NCAA Niagara Regional, earning All-Region honors and leading the Violets to an eighth-place team finish.

On the women’s side, Gabrielle Stankosh and Athina Zodl both earned All-Region honors, with Stankosh’s 17^th-place finish leading the Violets at the Niagara Regional.

A total of 10 runners, five from each team, earned UAA Fall Sport All-Academic honors. Both Tobin and Zodl earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors while both the men’s and women’s squads were selected as USTFCCCA All-Academic Teams.

As a track & field assistant in 2021-22, Deck Shipley helped lead the men to sixth-place finishes at both the Indoor and Outdoor UAA Championships and to a 10^th–place showing at the Metropolitan Outdoor Championships. One of Deck Shipley’s distance runners, Mubeen Zainul, claimed the 5,000m at the Chester Quarry Classic.The women’s track & field team posted a fifth-place finish outdoors at the Ramapo College Invitational, with Katherine Cheng securing a victory in the 1,500m.

Deck Shipley joined NYU after serving as the Assistant Men’s and Women’s Cross Country and Track & Field Coach at La Salle University. In his one season there, Deck Shipley helped produce the team’s first Atlantic 10 Cross Country Champion in more than a decade, Luke Jaciw-Zurakowsky, who went on to compete at the NCAA Division I Championship.

Deck Shipley served as the Director of Operations for the women’s track & field team and assisted with both the men’s and women’s cross country programs at Temple University from 2018-20. The men posted program-best second-place finishes at the American Athletic Conference (AAC) Championships in both 2018 and 2019. Four runners earned All-Region Honors in 2019, doubling the program’s total over the previous 10 years. The women’s team produced program-best finishes in 2018 at the AAC Championship (third place) and the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Region Championship (fourth place), while also capturing its first-ever ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference) Championship.

Also in 2018, the women’s team had the highest team GPA in the AAC.

Deck Shipley began his coaching career as a Volunteer Assistant for the men’s and women’s cross country and track & field teams at Oklahoma State University in 2017-18. Both cross country teams qualified for the NCAA Division I Championships that season, while numerous student-athletes qualified for the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

A 2016 graduate of the University of Puget Sound with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Anthropology, Deck Shipley went on earn a Master of Science in Business from Temple in 2020. As an undergraduate, he was a two-time NCAA Division III All-American (5,000m indoors and 10,000m outdoors) in 2016, a 10-time Northwest Conference Champion and an NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship recipient.

Possessing USATF Level One Coaching Certification, Deck Shipley is a native of Portland, OR, and resides in New York City.