Walt Chadwick is in his 8th year assisting the Chargers Men's and Women's Cross Country and Track and Field teams. Chadwick has a varied, long, and successful history in the sport of distance running.
A scholarship athlete at Idaho State University upon finishing his studies in Physical Education, Chadwick assisted his Concord High School coach and mentor, NH legend Bill Luti with CHS Girl's high school track as well as coaching Cross Country at Bishop Brady. He was directly responsible coaching 3 State Championships and 1 New England championship by Beth Clark at Bishop Brady and assisted in 3 more State titles as well at CHS.
After a period spent designing sport shoes for NIKE, Chadwick returned to coaching at the University of New Hampshire. Randy Hall set 4 school records in the 1000, 1500, and 3000 meter run as well as achieving a school record and All Amercian status in the NCAA Indoor Mile run in 1990. Hall ran 4:02.73. Chadwick spent 4 years (1994-1998) at Wake Forest University assisting the program in the distance events.
Chadwick coached a Post Collegiate athlete from 1984 to 1986 that produced a Silver medal for Lynn Jennings, in 1986 World Cross Country Championships in Neuchatel, Switzerland. One-week later Ms. Jennings defeated World Champion Zola Budd in the famous Cinque Mulini (5 Mills) race in San Vittore-Olana, Italy.
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Other accomplishments for Ms. Jennings with his guidance were winning the National Cross Country Title (TAC Championships, November 1985) in Raleigh, North Carolina and setting a World Best, 1st place, Indoor 2 mile of 9:28.15 at the TAC Indoor Nationals in Madison Square Garden, NYC in February 1996.
After a short period coaching with Dartmouth College, as well as with various middle and high school programs in the Dartmouth Lake-Sunapee Region, Chadwick settled into coaching with Colby-Sawyer College.
Chadwick lives in New London.
