Tom Donnelly enters his 37th season at the helm of Haverford’s track and cross country programs in 2011-12.

In 2011 cross country, Donnelly was named Centennial Conference 'Coach of the Year'. 

During the 2011 track and field season, Haverford regained its place on top by claiming the league title by 70 points. The Fords won seven events during the meet. The distance medley relay team of Eric Arnold, Andrew Golato, Tim Schoch and Ivo Milic-Strkalj set the earned All-American status with a third-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Division III championship and Coach Donnelly was named United States Mideast Region Indoor coach of the year. 

In 2010, Haverford won the NCAA Division III cross country championship. It was the school's first team championship. Five Fords earned All-American honors, including individual national champion Anders Hulleberg. The indoor distance medley relay team ran its way to All-American status with a third place finish at the NCAA championship. During the outdoor season, Eric Arnold and Tim Schoch were All-Americans in the 1,500 meter run. Personally, Donnelly earned seven coach of the year awards, including the 2010 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Cross Country National Coach of the Year.

Donnelly has taken Haverford to 68 Middle Atlantic and Centennial Conference championships in track and cross country, including 53 since 1992. His runners have earned 132 cross country and track & field All-America certificates since 1980, including 25 individual NCAA championships, one NCAA championship relay team and one NCAA national championship cross country team.

Individual program highlights under Donnelly’s guidance include Karl Paranya ’97 — a 1996 and 2000 Olympic trials participant in the 1,500 meters — who ran the first sub-4 mile (3:57.6) in NCAA D-III history in 1997; Seamus McElligott ’91, who won NCAA Division III championships in cross country, the indoor 5,000 meter run, and the outdoor 5,000 and 10,000, and also earned an All-America certificate competing in the Division I cross country championship; J.B. Haglund ’02, who captured four NCAA titles during his senior year at Haverford; Matt Leighninger '91, who won NCAA championships in the steeplechase and the indoor 1,500; Aaron Curry '94, who was the NCAA champion in the indoor 1,500 and Anders Hulleberg '11, who won the NCAA cross country title.

Donnelly was an All-American in cross country and track at Villanova University. A top college distance runner from 1966 to '69, he helped lead the Wildcats to three consecutive NCAA cross country championships and one NCAA track title.