Sean Robinson will enter his fifth year as the Rangers' men's and women's cross country head coach and his third season as the Drew men's and women's track & field head coach in 2025-26.
In cross country, Robinson coached Toby Gaynor C'25 to a spot on the All-Landmark Conference Team for the third year in a row, gaining second-team honors in 2024 after placing 14th at the conference championship meet. He also captured first-team recognition in both 2023, when he finished fourth, and was a second-team honoree in 2022, when he came in eighth. Gaynor also earned a spot on the all-region in both the 2023 and 2022 seasons. In 2023, Gaynor placed 19th at the NCAA Division III Metro Region Championships and in the process, became the first Ranger in program history to earn multiple all-region honors. One year earlier, he took 31st at the regional championship.
In addition, Robinson guided Kate Rice C'26 to a tremendous season in her cross country debut in 2024, as she placed in the top-five in four different races and ran the fastest time in team history for both the 6K (22:19) and 5K (18:25) racing distances.
Robinson has also coached the Rangers to success over the first two years of varsity track & field at Drew. Most notably, he coached Drew's first-ever track & field All-American in Sage Hendershot C'27, who earned the honor during both the indoor and outdoor seasons. Indoors, she placed 16th in the long jump at the NCAA Division III Championships to capture Second Team All-America honors, and she went on to finish eighth in the same event at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships to earn the title of First Team All-American.
Additionally, Robinson has coached five athletes who have won a combined nine events at the Landmark Conference Championships. Also under Robinson's watch, seven athletes have earned a total of 13 All-Region awards.
Prior to his arrival at the Forest, Robinson ran an incredible program as the boy's cross country and indoor track & field head coach at Morris Hills High School for nearly two decades. He coached his student-athletes to dozens of conference, regional, and national awards and was inducted into the New Jersey State Coaches Association (NJSCA) Hall of Fame in 2015.
Robinson took over as boy's cross country coach in 2002 and just two years later was named the Star Ledger New Jersey Cross Country State Coach of the Year. Then in 2005, he guided Morris Hills to a spectacular season that culminated with an invitation to the inaugural Nike Team National Cross Country Championship, where it finished 13th. That same year, the Scarlet Knights set a five-man average course-record time of 16:16 at the Garrret Mountain Reservation during the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) North 1 Sectional Championships. The team also broke a record for the lowest team score (1-2-3-4-8=18 points) in NJSIAA State Sectional history.
In 2006, Robinson became the Morris Hills boy's indoor track & field coach. In that year, he steered his team to every major championship it entered (conference, county, state group and state group relay), the first time that had happened in county history. The Scarlet Knights repeated the feat in 2008, 2009, and 2011.
Under Robinson's direction, the Knights earned 10 NJSIAA State Championships, 21 NJSIAA Sectional Championships, three NJSIAA State Relay Championships, 10 conference championships, and 15 county titles in cross country and track & field.
Morris Hills has also had over 34 High School All-America honors distributed to its cross country/track & field athletes since 1999, largely with the success of the school's 4x1-mile relay, 4x800-meter relay, and shuttle hurdle relay teams. At the 2009 Nike National Outdoor Track Championship, the Morris Hills 4x800 squad won the race to secure the title of national champions after having the United States No. 2-ranked all-time performance of 7:31.60 (breaking the national record) at the Penn Relays.
From 2002-21, Morris Hills qualified for the NJSIAA Meet of Champions as a complete team/individual every season throughout Robinson's tenure.
For his efforts, Robinson was honored with two State Coach of the Year awards, one NFHS State Coach of the Year Honor, five Area Coach of the Year Honors, and seven Excellence in Coaching Awards.
Robinson graduated from Kutztown University in 1998 with a degree in secondary education. He also earned his master of arts degree in educational leadership from Marygrove College in 2005.
