Rutgers-Camden Athletics

Assistant Outdoor Track Coach        Patrick Gartland (8th season)
High School:                                     Gloucester Catholic   
College:                                            University of Notre Dame (2009)
Major:                                                United States History
Minor:                                                Anthropology
Grad School:                                    Villanova University (2011)
Degree:                                             M.A. (American History)
 
The Scarlet Raptors’ head cross country coach from 2015-21 and a long-time track assistant, Patrick Gartland returns this spring as an assistant coach with the outdoor track program.
 
During the pandemic-shortened 2020 cross country season, limited to two invitationals due to the pandemic, Gartland saw both Jason Hyland and David Morrow earn All-New Jersey Athletic Conference Second Team honors. The Raptors also had four NJAC Academic Honorable Mention performers.
 
Over his seven-year tenure with the cross country programs, Gartland’s teams produced 30 All-NJAC academic honorees. In addition to the 2020 All-NJAC Second Team honors for Hyland and Morrow, Gartland was Alexis Jones earn NJAC First Team honors in 2018 for the women’s team.
 
The program Gartland inherited in 2015 was in such a state that his first women’s team featured only two members, while his maiden men’s team was comprised mostly of athletes on loan from the basketball team. By 2016, Gartland had recruited some good, young talent to form a solid foundation for his teams, and the 2017 cross country program roster approached 20 runners, almost entirely underclassmen.
 
Gartland’s fourth season as the Rutgers-Camden cross country coach in 2018 produced some big highlights for the growing Scarlet Raptor programs. Gartland earned his first All-New Jersey Athletic Conference runner when Jones captured NJAC First Team honors, while also earning NJAC Academic First Team recognition and winning the NJAIAW championship. On the men’s side, the Raptors placed fifth at the NJAC Championships for their highest conference finish since another fifth-place finish in 2014.
 
Gartland, who also serves as the Scarlet Raptors’ assistant track coach under Head Coach Ian Chrzanowski, joined the Rutgers-Camden athletic department after coaching the track and field programs at Gloucester Catholic High School for five years. He joined the Rams’ program as an assistant coach in 2010, and switched between coaching distance runners, jumpers and sprinters each year. In 2013, he became the Gloucester Catholic Head Boys’ and Girls’ Track Coach.
 
Over his five years at Gloucester Catholic, Gartland helped over 30 athletes compete in the Meet of Champions and 12 move on to collegiate careers in track and field.
 
Gartland also has served as the freshman basketball coach at Gloucester Catholic (2010-2011), a junior varsity basketball coach at Maple Shade High School (2009-2010) and was an intern with intramural athletics in 2007-2008 while attending the University of Notre Dame.
 
Gartland received his B.A. in United States History from Notre Dame in 2009, while also earning a minor in Anthropology. He added his M.A. in American History from Villanova University in 2011. He currently is a Ph.D. candidate in American History at Temple University and an adjunct professor in the History Department at Camden County College.
 
Gartland’s academic career has earned him the Russell F. Weigley Award for Papers in Military History, a recognition he received in 2012 from the U.S. Army Heritage Center Foundation. He was a Tuition Scholar at Villanova University (2010-2011) and earned the McAvoy Grant for Undergraduate Research at the University of Notre Dame (2008).
 
In addition to his coaching background, his supervisory experience includes serving on the Barnes Club Graduate Committee at Temple University and serving as the Co-Chair for the Barnes Conference. At Notre Dame he was the Student Union Board Manager and a member of the Executive Programming Board, as well as a Special Events Programmer for the Student Union Board. He also was a Facilities and Employee Manager with Nark Pools Inc. (2012-2013).
 
Gartland earned seven varsity letters during his scholastic career at Gloucester Catholic High School, with three apiece in cross country and track and one in basketball. He served as the team captain in track and cross country and competed in the pole vault, triple jump, 400, 800 and 1,600 with the Rams’ track program. He captured All-Tri-County Conference honors in the pole vault in 2005 and All-Parochial honors in that event in both 2004 and 2005.