Joe Gingras enters his 23rd season as a cross country and track & field coach at Vermont and his 10th season as the associate head coach of cross country. He has been associated with the UVM cross-country and track & field programs for over two decades.
During Gingras' coaching tenure, Vermont has won three America East Conference Championships and a New England Championship. Gingras has coached 21 America East champions, four NCAA All-Region performers, and three NCAA qualifiers in both cross country and track & field.
His athletes have registered 83 All-America East performances and broken a total of 61 school records. Additionally, Gingras has coached 75-percent of the athletes who make up the all-time UVM top-10 lists for men's distance and middle distance track events.
Gingras was a four-year letterwinner at Vermont in both cross country and track & field during his collegiate career. He was team captain and MVP of the cross country team as a senior. His specialty on the track was the 3000-meter steeplechase, but also competed in races from 1500 to 5000 meters.
As a junior, Gingras earned America East All-Conference honors after placing fifth in the steeplechase at the 1998 America East Outdoor Track & Field Championships. His fifth place finish also qualified him for the New England Championships later that year.
As a senior, he earned all-conference honors for the second straight year with a third place finish in the steeplechase and finished 11th out of 24 qualifiers at the New England Championships.
Gingras graduated from Vermont in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in economics and geography. He was the recipient of the John H. Converse Award given to the outstanding senior in economics and was a member of the Gamma Theta Upsilon International Honor Society for geography. Gingras was a six-time member of the Dean's List at UVM and six-time member of the America East Academic Honor Roll.
