Worcester Polytechnic Institute

USTFCCCA DIII New England/East Men's Coach of the Year 2009, 2019, 2022
USTFCCCA DIII New England/East Women's Coach of the Year 2010, 2015, 2022
USTFCCCA DIII Women's East Region Assistant Coach of the Year 2023, 2024
NEWMAC Men's Track & Field Coach of the Year 2009, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021 | NEWMAC Women's Track & Field Coach of the Year 2010, 2016, 2022
NEWMAC Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year 2017, 2018

Brian Chabot is entering his 22nd season at WPI and fourth as Director of Track & Field/Cross Country at WPI in 2025-2026 

More records and program firsts continued in 2023-2024 as the women's cross country crew finished third or better in five of the program's seven events in the fall leading the best-ever finish by the women's team at the NCAA D3 East Region Championships (3rd) leading to the first-ever team qualification for the NCAA national race. Grace Hadley posted a standout cross country campaign taking the title at the Bates Invitational, NEWMAC Championship, D3 East Region Championship and earned the program's first Cross Country All-America citation with a fourth overall finish at the national event. Hadley earned USTFCCCA NCAA Division III East Region Women's Cross Country Runner of the Year and NEWMAC Women's Runner of the Year. The men's program recorded five outings where the team finished fifth or better including a team title at the Smith Invitational. David Reynolds, Avi Bissoondial and Brinson Wyche led the squad with All-Region honors to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA East Regional race as Reynolds and Bissoondial earned individual selections to the 2023 NCAA Cross Country Championships. During the indoor stint, records continued to fall at the hands of David Reynolds, Gavin Fleck, Grace Hadley, Morgan Collins, David Serreryn and the Distance Medley Relay crew. Fleck, Liz Matticoli, Bissoondial, Reynolds and Vivienne Evans all earned Indoor All-New England honors and the DMR claimed a new school record and title at the Tufts Qualifier Meet. Hadley was named the 2024 USTFCCCA NCAA Division III East Region Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year as Chabot was named East Region Assistant Coach of the Year as he coached the WPI distance runners to top spot in the East Region rankings in five events, including the national No. 1 miler and No. 2-ranked distance medley relay team. The Engineers compiled four school records and an event record at the New England Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships. The 2023-24 indoor track and field program collected 18 All-Region honors from the USTFCCCA. The ultimate highlight of the indoor season came in day one of the 2024 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championship meet where the women's DMR (Amelia Kokernak, Hallal, Elise Deshusses, Hadley) rallied late for the program's first-ever national championship title in comeback fashion as Fleck earned All-America status in the pole vault. Hadley followed up for the program's second national championship the next day with a new NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championship record in the mile with a 4:42.36 time. The 15 points amassed by Hadley on day two, combined with the 10 racked up on Friday for winning the DMR on Friday, totaled 25 for the Engineers, giving Chabot and head track & field coach Emily Mauro's squad a seventh place team finish, the best in school history. The outdoor season brought more titles and records as the men's and women's programs combined for a trio of team titles as the women logged a runner-up finish and the men finished fourth at the 2024 NEWMAC Championships. Hadley set three NEWMAC Championship records (800m, 1500m, 5k) as Lauren Coutu won the heptathlon as Bissoondial (1500m), Brett Gerlach (Triple Jump), Reynolds (5k) and Wyche (Steeplechase) claimed titles on the men's side. Both squads recorded eighth-place finishes at the NED3 Championships highlighted by Bissoondial who claimed a title in the 1500m and set a new facility record at Mount Holyoke as Gerlach and Fleck logged third place finishes to propel the men to an eighth place finish. Hadley smashed the school record in the 800 and logged the second fastest time in DIII during the 2024 outdoor season and 10th quickest all-time (2:06.65). Reynolds and Fleck recorded program records at the NEICAAA Championships in the 5k and pole vault respectively helping the men's team finish T-12th along featuring four All-New England honors. Heading to the national meet again was Fleck (Pole Vault) and Hadley (1500m, 5k) and featured first-time qualifiers Matticoli (Javelin) and Reynolds (10k). All four participants finished with All-America nods as Fleck finished ninth in the pole vault as Reynolds and Matticoli finished 13th in the 10k and javelin respectively. Hadley battled food poisoning and was forced to medically scratch in the 1500m and concluded her legendary collegiate career with a second-place finish in the 5k for her seventh total All-America honor spanning across cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field championships. Hadley completed the sweep of USTFCCCA DIII East Region honors as she was named the East's Women's Outdoor Track & Field Athlete of Year. The track & field programs compiled 12 All-Region Outdoor Track & Field honors from the USTFCCCA. The women's track & field and cross country programs ranked 13th in the final USTFCCCA team standings. Both squads combined for seven CSC Academic All-District honorees as Hadley was named an Academic All-America. Hadley was later named the NEWMAC Women's Student-Athlete of the Year nominee. 

The Engineers cross country programs posted strong fall campaigns in 2022 as WPI combined for seven top-five team finishes highlighted by a runner-up showing for the men in the NEWMAC championships and a sixth-place performance in the 2022 NCAA Division III East Region Championships before David Reynolds made his third-career appearance in addition to Brian Brooks who was returning to the national race for the second-straight season. On the women's side, Grace Hadley and Caitlin Guilfoyle led the Engineers to the then program's best-ever NCAA DIII East Region finish. During track & field season, both programs brought home the Wheaton Invitational indoor team title. The women's and men's programs recorded a 13th and tied-14th place team finish at the NED3 Indoor Championships. During the outdoor season, Nicholas Fiorenza (400MH), Andrew Sifferlen (Decathlon) and Lucas Anthony (Javelin) highlighted the spring as they all secured event titles at the 2023 NEWMAC Outdoor Championships as the team placed third. On the women's side, Grace Hadley (1500m, 5k), Packard (800m) and the foursome of Packard, Lora Dufresne, Isabel Hallal and Laura Mitcheson (4x400 Relay) all claimed gold at the NEWMAC Championships. Fiorenza represented the men's program with an individual qualification in the 400MH at the 2023 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships whereas Packard and Hadley claimed All-America honors in the 800m and 5k respectively. Packard concluded her career with nine All-America citations. Packard then capped off her athletic awards as an NCAA Today's Top 10 Award recipient in 2023. 

2021-2022 was a historic year for the Crimson and Gray cross country programs as the men's team earned an at-large bid to the 2021 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships for the first time in program history in addition to earning a pair of women's runners to be selected individually for the first time in program history in Louisville, Kentucky. The men's program posted five top-five team finishes including a win at the Wellesley Invitational, runner-up finish at the NEWMAC Championships and fifth at the NCAA DIII East Regional. The women's squad logged four top-five team showings that featured a win at UMass Dartmouth Invitational, a second-place effort in the NEWMAC Championships and an eighth-place finish at the NCAA DIII East Regional. 

The 2020-2021 academic year saw unprecedented success for the women's and men's programs despite being limited to just an outdoor season of competition. The women's team secured it's first NEWMAC title since 1994, which was led by a trio of major award winners, NEWMAC Rookie of the Year Vivienne Evans '24 who took first place in the 100m, 200m and was a member of the winning 4x100m relay. NEWMAC Track Athlete of the Year, Sydney Packard 'GR who took home conference titles in the 800m and 1500m and NEWMAC Field Athlete of the Year, Skylar Barthelemes 'GR, who secured victories in the hammer throw and shot put, while also placing second in the discus throw and fifth in the javelin. Evans would go on to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the 100m, as well as a member of the All-American 4x100m, the first outdoor relay from either gender to do so in program history. Packard also competed at the NCAA Championships, earning a program-record 7th & 8th All-America honors after placing in the top-8 in both the 800m and 1500m. 

2021 outdoor campaign also saw the men's program win their first-ever NEWMAC title. NEWMAC Track Athlete of the Year, Oliver Thomas '21 helped usher in the victory winning the 110m and 400m hurdles, as well as lead-off for the winning 4x100m relay. Thomas would go on to be crowned NEICAAA 110m Hurdle Champion and ultimately earn his third All-America honor with a 7th place finish in the 110m hurdles at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championship. Fellow 110m hurdler, Malek ElShahks '21 would also qualify for the NCAA Championship in that event. 

Despite an abbreviated 2019-2020 campaign, Chabot's program had one of their most successful seasons to date, highlighted by standout, Sydney Packard's Division III NCAA leading 800m time of 2:06.54, which now finds her ranked #2 on the NCAA all-time indoor performance list for Division III. Under Chabot’s leadership the Track & Field team has produced 36 NCAA All-Americans, 18 of which were added during the 2020 indoor and 2021 outdoor track and field seasons. The success has not simply been limited to the track or the field, as Chabot saw two more Academic All-American's honored in 2019-2020, adding to his total of 15 during his career on Boynton Hill. 

Over the past two years, Sydney Packard has collected three 800-meter run All-America trophies in four NCAA Division III Track & Field Championship appearances. She also became the 10th fastest woman in Division III history to compete in the indoor 800m. Lea Strangio and a men's 4x400-meter relay team also made back-to-back trips to the outdoor version of the event. The 2017 men's 4x400m consisted of Andrew Kelly, Alex Rus, Ryan Wittenberg and Warren Staver while the 2018 team included Rus, Paul-Henry Schoenhagen, Nick Fleury and Staver. In March, Packard and Strangio teamed with Emily Newman and Maggie LaRoche to contest the distance medley relay while the men were represented by Wittenberg (800m) and Austin Scott (mile) at the indoor event. 

Regionally, the men's indoor 4x400m and 4x800m claimed the New England Division III titles while Packard followed up a sweep of the 800m and 1,500m at the NEWMAC Championships with gold in the 800m at the Division III New England Championships. Rus, meanwhile, broke the tape in the 400m with a NEWMAC and WPI record time after teaming with Oliver Thomas, Antoine Harris and Fleury to secure the 4x100m at the conference meet. For their efforts, Rus was named the NEWMAC Track Athlete of the Year, Thomas was tabbed as the NEWMAC Rookie of the Year, and Chabot was selected as NEWMAC Men's Coach of the Year for the fourth time.

Chabot has seen the women’s team place in both national championships from 2013 to 2015, as well as six consecutive outdoor meets from 2013-2018. The Engineers finished a program best 18th during the 2013 outdoor season behind Julie Eagle and Laura Pumphrey's second-place tie in the high jump. 

During the 2013-2014 campaign six women qualified for the NCAA championships, with graduate student Eagle placing third and second, respectively, in the high jump during the 2014 indoor and outdoor championships.

Liz Pellegrini was second in the 400-meter hurdles at the 2016 outdoor championships and was the NEWMAC Track Athlete of the Year in 2016. For his efforts, Chabot has been named the 2010 NEWMAC and NCAA Division III New England Women’s Coach of the Year, as well as the 2015 NCAA Division III New England Women's Coach of the Year and 2016 NEWMAC Coach of the Year.

The 2009, 2013 and 2016 NEWMAC Men’s Coach of the Year, along with the 2009 NCAA Division III New England Men's Coach of the Year has continued to see the team rank among the top programs in Division III New England. In 2017 the team finished second at the NEWMAC championship for the sixth straight year and seven out of the last nine. 

Academically, The Cross Country and Track & Field teams boast 13 CoSIDA Academic All-America nods, including repeat picks Jarrett Arredondo, Julie Eagle and Wesley DeChristofaro.

Chabot served as an assistant coach for four years, working primarily with sprinters and jumpers, helping 38 of his athletes earn All-New England honors and eight garner All-ECAC distinctions.

Prior to joining the staff at WPI, Chabot coached Indoor Track and Field at his alma mater, St. John's High School in Shrewsbury from 2000-01. Under Chabot's tutelage, the Pioneers set school records in the mile and the 4x800 relay.

In college, Chabot was a standout cross country and track and field athlete at UMass-Amherst. Chabot was a two-year team captain in both sports for the Minutemen and received All-New England and All-IC4A distinctions on multiple occasions. He graduated from UMass in 1999 with a double-major in Psychology and History.