SELINSGROVE, PA - Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Ethan Senecal has announced updates to his coaching staff for the 2025-26 season. 

Head Cross Country Coach and Assistant Track & Field Coach Jeremiah "J.J." Clinchoc has announced his departure. His last day is Sept. 12. Clinchoc began at Susquehanna in 2019 as an assistant coach before moving into the cross country head coaching position in 2021. That fall the women's cross country team won the Landmark Conference championship, finished fourth at regionals, and had two national qualifiers in Kallan Carter and Marissa Kleman. Carter would return to the national race in 2022 after the women posted a third-place finish at Landmarks and 12th at regionals. With track and field Clinchoc led the mid-distance, distance, and high jump group, coaching a two-time NCAA All-American high jumper in Bryce Ellinger. 

Assistant Track & Field Coach Ryan Weir has been promoted to Associate Head Coach for both the cross country and track & field programs. Weir joined the River Hawks in 2017 and coached the sprints and hurdles. Most recently the team's success in that area has attributed to several national qualifiers, including this past indoor and outdoor season as Chloe Yoder, Ben Bulger, Calder Diakite, and Brandon Zimmerman qualified for nationals, with Yoder, Zimmerman, and Bulger earning NCAA All-American during their careers, as well as another All-American finish in the men's 4x100 at NCAA outdoors this spring. These efforts helped fuel the track and field programs into a Landmark power, with the men and women sweeping the Landmark indoor titles from 2022 to 2024, as well as sweeping the 2023 Landmark outdoor championships and the women's first-ever outdoor track and field conference title. 

Fellow Susquehanna stalwart Ryan McGuire '04 will take on additional duties with the cross country and distance programs. A 2004 graduate of Susquehanna, McGuire competed under legendary coach Jim Taylor and served as an assistant coach through 2006. After an 11-year run as the cross country and track & field coach at Selinsgrove Area High School, he returned to Susquehanna in 2019, helping elevate the squad on both fronts as the 2021 women's cross country program earned their first Landmark championship since 2010, as well as the program posting their highest-ever regional finish in fourth. In recent years the men's harriers have worked their way back near the top of the Landmark standings, with the men placing third in last fall's title race, their highest since 2015. 

Senecal has also announced the addition of three new assistant coaches, including two alumni in 2025 graduates Chloe Yoder and Brandon Zimmerman. Yoder will work with sprints and hurdles, while Zimmerman will coach the jumps and multis. Both were solid assets to the program as the River Hawks combined for 13 Landmark indoor and outdoor track & field championships since the spring of 2021. Yoder and Zimmerman both qualified for the NCAA National Championships, with Zimmerman doing so in both the 2025 indoor and outdoor championships as a multi-athlete and sprinter. Yoder reached nationals as an accomplished hurdler in the 60 and 100 meter hurdles, earning NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American in 2023. 

The last addition to the Susquehanna coaching staff is Matthew Adami, who will work with the mid-distance group. Adami is an experienced cross country and track & field coach at the high school level, coming to Selinsgrove from Tucson, Ariz. and coaching in the Tucson United School District. He attended Pima Community College in Arizona, earning his degree in 2013 and added a Bachelor's in Health Sciences (Healthy Lifestyles and Fitness Coaching) from Arizona State University in 2023. He recently came to the Central Pennsylvania area, where he works at Greenwood High School.