Tim McNeil '96 enters his 16th year as the head coach for the Westminster men’s and women’s cross country and track & field programs for the 2022-21 season.
McNeil, the school’s first full-time employee exclusively dedicated to coaching both the Titan track and field and cross country programs, has led the Titans to an impressive 14 total Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Championships, not including three PAC Indoor Championships before the league officially made Indoor a championship sport in 2015. The official PAC Championships breakdown under McNeil is as follows: Women’s Indoor (2020, 2019, and 2016), Women’s Outdoor (2021, 2012, 2010, 2009, and 2008), and Men’s Outdoor (2022, 2016, 2013, 2012, 2011). McNeil led the team to three Indoor PAC Championships prior to 2015: Women – 2013 and 2014 and Men – 2014). He has been named the PAC Coach of the Year a total of 14 times: Women’s Indoor – 2020, 2019, 2016, and 2014; Women’s Outdoor – 2021, 2012, 2010, and 2008; Men’s Outdoor – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2022; Men's Indoor - 2021
McNeil has coached a total of 58 NCAA National Qualifiers and 29 All-America citations (including the first-ever for both programs) and the school's first track & field National Champion (Marissa Kalsey - 2017, Outdoor Pole Vault).
Hired in July of 2007, McNeil immediately put his thumbprint on the programs as the Titan women’s track and field team won the PAC Outdoor Championship in each of his first three years (2008, 2009, 2010), including its first-ever PAC Title. Under McNeil’s guidance, the men’s track and field team won its first-ever PAC title in 2011, followed by two more championships in 2012 and 2013. Additionally, the women’s cross country team placed second in the PAC and 17th at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional in 2009, each marking the team’s highest-ever finish.
McNeil, a native of Mineral Ridge, Ohio, is a 1996 graduate of Westminster having excelled for the Titans in track and field and football. In track, McNeil was a three-time qualifier for the NAIA national championships in the 400-meter hurdles from 1994-96. His school record of 53.8 in the 400 hurdles still stands, while he also currently holds the school indoor record for the 55-meter high hurdles (7.9). On the gridiron, McNeil was the Most Valuable Player in the 1994 NAIA national championship game after catching two touchdown passes as the Titans defeated Pacific Lutheran, 27-7, for their sixth and most recent national championship. At one point, McNeil ranked second on the school's career receptions list (129) and fifth in the receiving yards (1,849) to go with 15 career touchdown receptions in four seasons from 1992-95. He also held the school's single-season receptions record with 61 in 1994 for more than a decade.
McNeil's previous coaching experience included six years as the head boys and girls track and field coach at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, Ohio, where he served as the school's assistant principal from 2000-06. McNeil's JFK girls teams won five straight district championships and his boys teams claimed three district titles, while a total of 55 athletes qualified for the state meet, including four individual champions and one relay champion.
While at JFK, McNeil also coached the freshmen football team from 2000-05 and the boys and girls cross country coach in 2005.
A 2005 inductee to the Westminster Titan Sports Hall of Fame, McNeil completed his master’s degree in education from his alma mater in 2004.
McNeil By The Numbers
· 49 women's qualifiers for the Division III Championships (18 indoor, 31 outdoor).
· 17 men's qualifiers for the Division III Championships (2 indoor, 15 outdoor).
· 25 women's Division III All-Americans (14 indoor, 11 outdoor).
· 6 men's Division III All-Americans (6 outdoor).
· 2 women's Division III national champions (Marissa Kalsey '16, outdoor pole vault (2017); Emma Rudolph '24, outdoor pole vault (2022).
McNeil's Coaching Awards
2023-24: PAC Women's Indoor Coach of the Year; U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division III Mid-Atlantic Region Women's Indoor Coach of the Year; PAC Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year.
2021-22: PAC Men's Indoor Coach of the Year; PAC Men's Outdoor Coach of the Year.
2020-21: PAC Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year.
2019-20: PAC Women's Indoor Coach of the Year.
2018-19: PAC Women's Indoor Coach of the Year.
2015-16: PAC Women's Indoor Coach of the Year; PAC Men's Outdoor Coach of the Year.
2012-13: PAC Men's Outdoor Coach of the Year.
2011-12: PAC Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year; PAC Men's Outdoor Coach of the Year.
2010-11: PAC Men's Outdoor Coach of the Year.
2009-10: PAC Women's Outdoor Track & Field.
2007-08: PAC Women's Outdoor Track & Field.
