Michael Lonergan coached 16 individual Canadian champions in track and field and five more in cross-country, including Olympian Leah Pells and the late Emily Mondor, a former world outdoor 5,000-metre finalist.
Lonergan has coached athletes at nine world track and field championships, three Commonwealth Games, two Pan American Games and 10 world cross-country championships.
He has coached more than 25 champions or medalists at national championships and more than 40 All-American athletes while with Simon Fraser University. Lonergan has been named a NAIA national coach of the year and B.C. Athletics high performance coach of the year.
While at SFU, Lonergan led the men’s and women’s cross-country teams to runner-up finishes in 1994 and the women to second again in ’95. He has also head coached numerous national teams, including the world cross-country team in England in 1995.
