Mark_J_Coogan

New Balance Elite Track Coach. Olympic Marathoner. Massachusetts first sub 4 minute miler.

[Chris Chavez @ChrisChavez]

🇺🇸 Team USA's roster has been announced for the 2026 World Indoor Championships in Poland.

One notable update:
Elle St. Pierre, the 2024 World champion who finished second in the 3000m at the USATF Indoor Championships, has scratched due to personal circumstances. Not injury-related, per coach Mark Coogan.

She will be replaced on the roster by her Team New Balance Boston teammate Margot Appleton. This is the UVA grad's first U.S. senior team. She ran a personal best of 8:39.79 at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix.

[Mark_J_Coogan @mark_coogan]

@SBUnfurled You’re the best!

[New Balance @newbalance]

Welcome to the New Balance family, Parker Valby.

[Mark_J_Coogan @mark_coogan]

@JoeyGall0 Let’s Go!!

[Sarah Lorge Butler @slorgebutler]

Coach ⁦⁦⁦@mark_coogan⁩ breaks down the heats of women’s 1500 with Emily Mackay and Elle St. Pierre.

[Mark_J_Coogan @mark_coogan]

@TimHutchings1 @Paris2024 Fit it in!

[RunBlogRun @RunBlogRun]

Deep thoughts from #trackfieldtrials24, #5. Elle St. Pierre ran three 1,500m races, and two 5,000m races. @ellepurrier won a close 5000m, and led 1500m from start until final 50m, scoring a PB and placing third. Elle St.Pierre is a medal contender at 1,500m! @mark_coogan , @TeamNewbalance , @ChuckAragon1

[Chris Chavez @ChrisChavez]

Emily Mackay and Elle St. Pierre worked together in the first round of the 1500m, came away with the two fastest times of the day and gave tons of credit to coach @mark_coogan for getting them all ready.

Team New Balance Boston puts three athletes through to the semifinal.

[Tim Simpson @RunCoach341]

Current Boston Coach Rankings
1.@mark_coogan
2.Mazzulla
3.Cora

[Mark_J_Coogan @mark_coogan]

@Davemorissett43 @joshmorissette @CodyMorissette @alexisrsweet @KMorissette7 Let’s go! @newbalance

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@ColinLaurence15 @ScottyPrince10 @COACH_PAPAS Let’s Go!

[CITIUS MAG @CitiusMag]

STOP ELLE 🛑

Elle St. Pierre shows why she’s the woman to watch at any distance with a dominant 5000m win at the LA Grand Prix in 14:34.12.

St. Pierre led the race from the moment the rabbits stepped off and still closed her last 400m in 63 seconds to knock 24 seconds off her PB, knock out her Olympic standard, and land at U.S. #5 all-time.

[CITIUS MAG @CitiusMag]

HEATHER MACLEAN HAS ENTERED THE CHAT 👀

After missing some time indoors due to injury, @heathair31 decisively reinserts herself into the Olympic conversation with a 4:02.49 heat win in the 1500m at the LA Grand Prix.

MacLean took off like a rocket with 600 meters remaining and knocks out the Olympic standard by 1/100th of a second. Talk about getting the job done!

[CITIUS MAG @CitiusMag]

What a comeback ‼️

One year after a serious car accident derailed their seasons, @UNCTrack_Field seniors Will Coogan and Patrick Anderson finish 1-3 in heat 1 of the @pennrelays 5000m.

In their first season back competing, Coogan took the win in 13:52.60 and Anderson finished 3rd in 13:53.86.

[CITIUS MAG @CitiusMag]

“Science follows good coaching.” 🫡

While in Boston, we popped over to @Team_NB_Boston coach @mark_coogan’s office to record an episode of ‘Office Hours’ on The CITIUS MAG Podcast.

We closed things out by playing a game of “Overrated Or Underrated” to discuss the biggest advances and fads in distance running coaching right now. 📚

Get his quick take on:
• Alter-Gs
• Double Threshold
• Blood Lactate Testing
• Boston University’s Track
• Super Shoes
• Pacing Lights
• Bicarb
• Running On Soft Surfaces
• Weight Lifting
• Cross Training When Healthy
• Altitude Training
+ more…

🎧 Catch the full interview on The CITIUS MAG Podcast: https://t.co/3tnF1tucmt

[Chris Chavez @ChrisChavez]

🗣️"Let's just do 2 x 3000m with five minutes rest...So she ran 8:54. We took five minutes rest and then she ran 8:44."

Office Hours with @Team_NB_Boston's @mark_coogan (hosted by @TheRealMerb + @macfleet1) discussing Elle St. Pierre and Emily Mackay's training ahead of World Indoors + how his coaching philosophy has changed – or hasn't – with all these modern advances.

🎧 SPOTIFY: https://t.co/QJnv9WnbqQ

🎧 APPLE PODCASTS: https://t.co/O4MT6My8ZN

[Mark_J_Coogan @mark_coogan]

@slowencorbett02 @PTI @espn Team NB Boston!

[CITIUS MAG @CitiusMag]

🇺🇸 Winner: American Middle-Distance Fans

"If someone told you that one country would pick up 7 medals across 800m, 1500m, and 3000m this weekend, even the most optimistic of American track fans would probably not have guessed that it was the U.S., not Ethiopia, that claimed such a large haul.

But Team USA’s middle-distance contingent delivered hugely at every possible turn this weekend, earning two golds (men’s 800m and women’s 3000m), three silvers (men’s and women’s 1500m and men’s 3000m), and two bronzes (men’s and women’s 1500m), more than every other nation combined in those events."

Takeaways from World Indoors: https://t.co/m979hEvCsC

[Mark_J_Coogan @mark_coogan]

@Davemorissett43 Let’s Go!!