Coaching Staff

	Doug Renner
	Head Coach
	Year at McDaniel: 24th Alma Mater: Western Maryland '80 Office Phone: 410-857-2581 Email: drenner@mcdaniel.edu

Neither Doug Renner nor his running shoes are strangers to McDaniel’s quiet hilltop campus.

Renner, a three-time cross country captain and one-time captain of the track and field squad, graduated from Western Maryland in 1980.

In 1985, he returned to the Hill to take the reins of the cross country program. At the same time, Renner also coached Westminster High School to the 1985 Maryland 4A Women’s title. In 1991, he assumed the head coaching responsibilities of the Green Terror indoor and outdoor track and field programs.

It was not until 1998, however, that Renner left teaching to coach full-time. With more time dedicated to the program, he has put together several outstanding recruiting classes while continuing to develop the athletes already in the program.

Under Renner’s direction, McDaniel produced its first-ever Centennial Conference (CC) cross country championship as well as its first male runner to reach the NCAA National Championships (Greg Davis, 1994)

Jill Krebs has since been to the national meet three times (1999-2001) and became the program’s first All-American in 1999, repeating the honor with a higher finish at the 2000 Championship.

The trend of success has continued into the new millennium. In 2003, Paul Hugus became the second runner on the men’s side to make it to the national championship meet and the first runner in the history of the men’s program to attain All-CC first-team honors. He repeated those feats in 2004, making Hugus the squad’s first two-time national qualifier.

Renner resides in the Taneytown with his wife Linda ‘87, 15-year-old son Colin, and five-year-old twins, Hannah and Noah.

Pool enters her second season on the cross country staff after a successful running career on the Hill.

Following her time on Renner's collegiate squad, Pool had successful coaching stints at Glenelg and Winters Mills, including a state championship at the former.

Pool is also a member of Renner's highly successful Central Maryland Athletic Club (CMAC), which has won the last two team titles at in the highly competitive Cherry Blossom 10 miler as well as finishing third in the Boston Mayor's Cup cross country meet and 10th in the 2005 USATF Club National cross country championships.

Pool's resume includes personal bests of 17:07 (5K certified road), 36:24.14 (10K track), 59:35 (10 miles certified road), 1:19.45 (half marathon certified road) and 2:53.05 (marathon certified road).

Pool was a member of the Green Terror's lone Centennial Conference cross country championship team in 1999, earned All-Mid East honors twice and helped the cross country tema to its highest finish in the Mid East Reigon (fourth, 1999).

Pool is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate  and teaches English at Winters Mill.

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