Doug Pollard, Moravian College
Track & Field Coach – 1984-2007
Doug Pollard served as head coach of the men's and women's track and field teams from 1984 until he passed away in 2007. He guided over 150 student-athletes to appearances at the NCAA Division III indoor and outdoor national championships, with 69 earning All-American accolades. Pollard's teams won 14 Middle Atlantic Conference indoor team titles and 16 MAC outdoor titles. Of those championships, the women won the 11 of the last 12 indoor MAC Championships and 13 of the last 15 outdoor MAC Championships before Moravian joined the Landmark Conference. Pollard's track & field teams had three top-10 finishes at the NCAA national meet, two by the men's program and one by the women's squad. Eight of the individual national champions in Moravian history up to 2007 were won by six Pollard-coached track & field athletes. He was the 2007 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III Mideast Region Women's Coach of the Year, and a two-time Mideast Region and six-time MAC Coach of the Year. He also served as an assistant football coach through the 1990 season while at Moravian. Pollard was inducted into the Moravian Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013. He was also inducted into the Kutztown University Hall of Fame in 1987—Pollard was a 1972 graduate from Kutztown.
Doug Pollard's Moravian Hall of Fame Page