Patrick Austin
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- Title:
- Head Coach
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- Phone:
- 847-735-6135
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- Email:
- paustin@lakeforest.edu
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Patrick Austin joined the Forester cross country and track coaching staffs prior to the 2022 track season and was named the head coach of both programs a few months later.
Lake Forest's women's cross country team placed sixth at the 2022 Midwest Conference Championship Meet while members of a shorthanded men's team competed as individuals at the event. Both teams had three different runners lead them at at least one meet during the season. Of the 20 runners on the rosters, 17 earned Academic All-MWC honors.
Austin's 2023 track teams were the largest in program history and set 15 school records. Under his direction the year before, Madeline Morland earned All-Midwest Conference honors in the 1500m and 5000m at the 2022 MWC Outdoor Track and Field Championship Meet. Audrey Paglia was also an All-MWC performer in the 800m at the MWC Indoor Championships while Austin was an assistant coach earlier in the season.
Austin's experience in coaching track and cross country includes a year as a graduate assistant at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, and a season as an assistant cross country coach at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Illinois.
In addition to coaching at the high school and college level, Austin has been a tactical athlete coach with T3i Services in Great Lakes, Illinois, since 2014 and is currently the organization's head run coach as well. With T3i Services he has worked with Naval Special Warfare Candidates on gait analysis, injury prevention, and other aspects of training and run performance.
Austin is a graduate of Elmhurst College (now Elmhurst University), where he was a two-time All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin honoree and qualified for the 2008 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championship Meet in cross country. He is also the track program's former school record-holder in the indoor 3000m and 5000m and still ranks among the team's all-time leaders in several different events. He earned his a degree in exercise science from Elmhurst in 2011.
Austin lives in nearby Buffalo Grove, Illinois.
