A familiar face returns to the Lincoln University campus as Quanette Ford takes over as Head Cross Country and Track & Field Coach for 2016-2017 season.
Ford brings a wealth of experience to the position and served as Lincoln’s Assistant Track and Field Coach to her predecessor Ray Williams from 2011 to 2013. As an assistant, Quanette worked with the jumpers and throwers. Coach Ford is a member of United States Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) and was their 2013 Atlantic Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year and holds a USA Track & Field (USATF) Level 1 Coaching Certificate.
A graduate of East Stroudsburg University, Ford was an All-American and PSAC champion in the triple jump for the Warriors. She graduated with five school records, three which still stand. She earned outdoor All-America honors in the triple jump with a seventh-place finish as a senior in 2001, and won the PSAC title as a freshman in 1998. She left ESU with records in the indoor and outdoor triple jump, indoor long jump, outdoor 4x100m relay and outdoor shuttle hurdles - and the triple jump and shuttle hurdle records still stand more than a decade later.
Quanette was inducted into the East Stroudsburg University Athletic Hall of Fame in October 2014.
Prior to her first stint at Lincoln, Ford was an assistant coach with Avon Grove High School, focusing on the jumps. She has been instructing speed, strength and agility fundamentals to student-athletes in Lancaster, Chester and Delaware counties over the last ten years.
A native of Newark, New Jersey, Ford earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology at East Stroudsburg University in 2001.
