Rich Marcello joins the coaching staff at SNHU in February 2022, after most recently serving as the Head Men’s Cross Country Coach at Quinnipiac University where he spent two seasons with the Bobcats. Previously, Marcello was the Associate Head Coach for Men’s and Women’s Cross Country and Associate Track & Field Coach at SUNY Oneonta in Oneonta, N.Y. At SUNY Oneonta Marcello led the men’s program to back to back Division III NCAA Championship appearances in 2018 and 2019. In this stretch, he guided the men’s cross country team to the team’s highest Atlantic Region team ranking in program history (third) and highest consecutive Atlantic Region Championship finishes in program history (fourth and fifth). His team also placed second at the 2018 and 2019 SUNYAC Cross Country Championships, where they scored their lowest point total in team history in consecutive years.
Marcello also has experience coaching at the high school level. He coached at Weston and Newtown High School in Connecticut from 2013-2018. He saw a combined 13 Southwest Conference Team Championships in indoor and outdoor track and field, four All-time Southwest Conference records broken, 25 All-State members, 8 All-New England athletes and four All-Americans.
Outside of coaching, Marcello is an adjunct professor in the Dept. of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Science at Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, CT), where he went to school. At Sacred Heart University, Marcello was two-year team captain of the cross country and track programs, and ran school records at 5000m and 10,000m. Marcello graduated from Sacred Heart with a Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Science in 2012 and a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science and Sports Nutrition in 2014. Marcello is a native a Scituate, Rhode Island.
