Rutgers-Camden Athletics

Head Coach       Ian Chrzanowski (9th season indoors; 10th season outdoors)
High School:             Gloucester Catholic
College:                     Rutgers University-Camden (2008)
Major:                        History
Minors:                      Psychology, Sociology, African American Studies
 
Ian Chrzanowski has been in charge of the Rutgers-Camden indoor and outdoor track programs since the 2015-16 winter season. He will begin his ninth competitive season with the Rutgers-Camden indoor track team during the 2024-25 campaign, a stretch that was only interrupted by the fact that the 2020-21 season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. By the time the 2025 spring season rolls around, Chrzanowski will be leading the outdoor team for his 10th season.
 
Chrzanowski’s 2023-24 scholastic year saw an influx of new talent on his track rosters, as well as several individual successes. During indoor season, Alexis Marini finished third in the New Jersey Athletic Conference in the weight throw. She topped that performance during outdoor season when she won the NJAC championship in the hammer throw. Teammate Isabella Bordon, meanwhile, finished second in the NJAC in the heptathlon. On the men’s side, meanwhile, newcomer Walter Pierce set program records in both the pentathlon and the decathlon. The teams combined for nine NJAC Academic honorees, with Marini adding USTFCCCA NCAA Division III All-Academic honors and a berth on the Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area Track Team.
 
Ian Chrzanowski’s Rutgers-Camden record
 

Over the years, Chrzanowski has continued to build the talent and depth of his roster, while also coaching two-time Division III national hammer champion Jude Misko along the way. Misko became only the second Raptor individual to earn national track titles when he accomplished the feat in 2021 and 2022. His back-to-back titles marked the third and fourth national track championships in Rutgers-Camden history and the first since Tim VanLiew earned back-to-back javelin titles in 2012 and 2013.
 
Misko, a two-time All-American, joined a pair of other athletes who captured All-American status during Chrzanowski’s tenure as the Raptors’ head coach. Cameron Dobbins earned the honor in the 200-meter dash during the 2018-19 indoor season, while Matt Gross was an All-American in the javelin in the spring of 2019.
 
During his tenure, Chrzanowski has coached nine New Jersey Athletic Conference champions and three ECAC champions during the indoor season. During the outdoor season, his charges have produced seven NJAC championships and 11 ECAC championships. He also has coached three male athletes who have been named the Outstanding Athlete at the NJAC Championships, with Dobbins earning the honor twice for track during indoor season and Misko being named the conference’s Outstanding Field Athlete in outdoor season.
 
In addition to producing his first two All-Americans during the 2018-19 indoor season, Chrzanowski saw his men’s indoor team post 72 points at the NJAC Championships, setting another program mark.
 
Chrzanowski served two seasons as Rutgers-Camden’s assistant track coach before being named the head coach during the 2015-16 scholastic year. Since then, he has expanded the team rosters while building the foundation for future success. His construction process was so rapid that he was named Rutgers-Camden’s Coach of the Year for the 2016-17 scholastic year. In only two years, Chrzanowski grew the program’s total roster from 22 to 34 athletes indoors and from 20 athletes to 40 with the outdoor teams.
 
Dobbins, who spent his entire four-year career under Chrzanowski’s leadership, was a three-time Rutgers-Camden Male Athlete of the Year, in addition to his All-America accomplishment and numerous other honors.
 
During the 2018-19 scholastic year, both of Rutgers-Camden’s NJAC Academic First Team honorees – Alexis Jones and Andrew Kustera – were members of the track program. Kustera also earned honors as Rutgers-Camden’s Scholar Athlete, while Jones was the school’s representative in the state-wide NJAIAW Woman of the Year program.
 
Over his tenure, Chrzanowski has coached four athletes who have been Rutgers-Camden’s NJAC Academic First Team recipient and seven that have been the NJAC Academic Second Team honoree. He also has had numerous NJAC Academic Honorable Mention athletes under his charge.
 
Chrzanowski returned to his alma mater during the 2013-14 track seasons, serving as Rutgers-Camden’s head throws coach, with the responsibility of recruiting and training athletes in the shot put, discus, javelin and hammer throws. He was certified as a Throws Event Specialist by the USTFCCCA during the summer of 2013.

 
Chrzanowski helped Scarlet Raptor Mariah Brown achieve success during both the 2013-14 indoor season and the 2014 outdoor season. Brown earned Athlete of the Week honors from the New Jersey Athletic Conference and the ECAC during indoor season and captured NJAC Honorable Mention in the shot put at the 2014 conference outdoor championship meet.
 
During the 2014-15 scholastic year, Chrzanowski’s young student-athletes established three program records in throwing events. Brianna Kearse and Steven Schneider set indoor marks in the weight throw and Kearse added an outdoor school record in the hammer.
 
A member of the 2007 Rutgers-Camden outdoor track team, Chrzanowski competed in six meets for the Scarlet Raptors that spring and set the program’s discus record in the Lions Invitational at The College of New Jersey on April 28.
 
Chrzanowski placed among the Top 10 in the discus in four of his six meets that spring, including a ninth-place finish at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships (May 5). He also competed in the shot put at all six meets, notching three Top 10 finishes, including 10th place at the conference championships. His highest finishes in both events came at the New Jersey Invitational on April 14 when he placed seventh in the shot put and fourth in the discus.
 
A History major who graduated from Rutgers-Camden in December 2008, Chrzanowski minored in Psychology, Sociology and African American Studies. Chrzanowski transferred to Rutgers-Camden after attending Gloucester County College, where he was the Roadrunners’ track team captain for two years and helped the program earn NJCAA District and Regional championships both in 2005 and 2006. He placed in the Top 10 at the NJCAA National Championship Meet in the discus in both 2005 and 2006, and also in the shot put in 2006. He also was an Academic All-American for track in 2006 and was a member of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society.
 
Chrzanowski earned 10 varsity letters at Gloucester Catholic High School, including four in track and field, three in football and three in wrestling. He was a two-time captain of the Rams’ track team (2003, 2004) and also served as the wrestling team captain in 2004.
 
Chrzanowski earned All-Tri-County Conference Diamond Division Second Team honors in the shot put and Courier-Post All-Parochial Second Team honors in the discus during his junior year at Gloucester Catholic in 2003. As a senior, he captured All-Parochial First Team honors in the shot put, earned All-Conference First Team in the shot put and All-Conference Second Team in the discus. He also earned First Team All-Area honors from the Gloucester County Times in the shot put and was an honors student.
 
A teacher at Gloucester Catholic High School since September 2010, Chrzanowski also serves as an assistant football coach with the Rams. He has served as a track coach at Gloucester Catholic, coaching 59 athletes to the Group State Championship Meet, with 27 of them advancing to the Meet of Champions.