Forester Cross Country

Career Highlights
	Fourth year at the helm of the Forester program and 13th in coaching
	Coached Lake Forest runners to five of the top 10 men's 8K and seven of the top 10 women's 6K times in team history
	2006 MWC Women's Co-Coach of the Year and two-Time Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year
	Coached athletes to 23 all-conference performances in eight years as a collegiate head coach
	Spent five seasons as head coach at NCAA Div. II Goldey-Beacom College, where he started both the men's and women's programs

The 2009 season will be Kelly Parsley's fourth year as head cross country coach at Lake Forest and 13th overall in the coaching field.

The Foresters finished eighth (women) and ninth (men) at the 2008 Midwest Conference Championship Meet. The women have placed as high as fourth (2006) in the league standings and the men sixth (2007) during his tenure.

Parsley has coached Lake Forest runners to three all-conference honors. Leann Kimmons and Katie Snowden each placed among the top 10 at the 2006 championship meet and Kahiye Hassan was 12th in 2007. Lake Forest runners have also earned 20 Academic All-Midwest Conference honors in the last three seasons.

Parsley spent the previous five years at NCAA Division II Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington, Delaware. He started the men's cross country program at Goldey-Beacom in 2001 and began the women's program the following year. The Lightning men claimed Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference titles in 2002 and 2003, the team's second and third year of existence, and he was named CACC Coach of the Year following both of those seasons. He coached athletes to 19 all-conference performances and a CACC Runner of the Year award in his five years with the program.

Prior to starting the program at Goldey-Beacom, Parsley was an assistant cross country coach at NCAA Division III Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania from 1997-99.

Parsley was also the head indoor and outdoor track & field coach at Hodgson Vo-Tech High School in Glasgow, Delaware, from 1998 to 2006. His boys team lost just four dual meets during his time with the program and the girls squad he started in 2001 has been nearly as successful.

Parsley graduated from California University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and earned a Master's Degree from West Chester University in 2004.

After running at Greensburg Salem High School and Califormia University, Parsley has continued his running career and has competed in several marathons with a career-best time of 2:38.54.