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Entering 13th year as TCNJ head coach and 18th year at TCNJ in 2025-26
Alma Mater: Rider University ‘02
Education: BA, History
• 27-time New Jersey Athletic Conference Coach of the Year
• 8-time NJAC Women's XC Coach of the Year (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020-21, 2022, 2023)
• 7-time NJAC Women's Indoor Coach of the Year (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• 5-time NJAC Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year (2014, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• 6-time NJAC Men's XC Coach of the Year (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020-21, 2021)
• 1-time NJAC Men's Indoor Coach of the Year (2014)
• 1-time NJAC Men's Outdoor Coach of the Year (2014)
• 4-time Indoor Metro Region Women's Coach of the Year (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• 3-time Outdoor Metro Region Women's Coach of the Year (2022, 2023, 2024)
• USTFCCCA 2010 National Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year
• USTFCCCA 2010 Atlantic Region Assistant Coach of the Year
• Coached athletes to 76 All-American citations
• 1 NCAA National Champion (Miriam Khan - 100m)
• NCAA Women’s Cross Country NCAA Team Qualifiers (2013, 2017, 2018, 2023)
• NCAA Men’s Cross Country NCAA Team Qualifiers (2016)
• Coached 204 Individual NJAC Champions
• Coached 2012 Guianese National 200m Champion (Ashhad Agyapong)
• 72 School Records Set
Justin Lindsey enters his 12th season as the Head Track & Field and Cross Country coach and 17th season overall with the program working primarily with the sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers.
Lindsey's charges enjoyed another strong campaign in 2021-22, with the men's cross country team capturing the NJAC crown alongside the women's indoor and outdoor track and field squads. Men's cross country was runner-up at the Metro Region championship and sent Jack Ennis to the NCAA Championships as an individual.
The 2021-22 women's indoor campaign included the Lions' fourth consecutive NJAC crown and a fourth-place finish at the AARTFC Championships. Eight Lions performed to All-Metro Region standards, and Lindsey was named Metro Region Coach of the Year before sending Alli Uhl (800) and the 4x400-meter relay off to nationals. The women went on to defend their NJAC outdoor title and qualified six student-athletes for the NCAA Championships, highlighted by All-American javelin thrower Amanda Murillo.
Lindsey was named women's Metro Region Coach of the Year following both track and field seasons. He guided the TCNJ women to the No. 1 spot in the Metro Region rankings and as high as No. 27 in the national TFRI.
Lindsey led the Lions to three NJAC Championships in the 2021 season. The women’s & men’s cross-country team each won the conference title, and the women’s track & field team also took home the outdoor championship. At the outdoor track & field nationals, Lindsey coached his Lions to a pair of All-America honors. Sam Gorman earned All-American status in the 400, while the 4x400 team of Gorman, Megan Gasnick, Alli Uhl, and Amanda Demko raced to All-American honors as well. Lindsey earned three NJAC Coach of the Year honors in the 2021 campaign.
Lindsey enjoyed another successful campaign in the 2019-20 seasons. In the Fall, TCNJ saw eight athletes honored as All-Conference performers on the cross country teams, led by NJAC Champion and Runner of the Year Robert Abrams. Abrams would go on to represent the Lions at the NCAA Division III National Championships.
In the indoor season, the women's track & field team won the NJAC Championship for the third straight season. Lindsey coached a total of nine individual champions at the NJAC Championship meet, including G. Larry Jame Most Outstanding Athlete Sam Gorman and Outstanding Field Athlete Kassidy Mulryne. For his efforts, Lindsey was named NJAC Coach of the Year for the 14th time in his career. The Lions were poised for a big meet at the NCAA Division III Championships, and would go on to earn eight All-America Honors. Gorman entered the 2020 Indoor Championships as the top-seeded runner in the 400-meters.
In 12 seasons Lindsey’s athletes have earned 70 All-American citations, 159 individual NJAC Champions, 62 school records and a national champion in the women’s 100m (Miriam Khan). In addition to his success on the collegiate level Coach Lindsey guided his first professional athlete (former part-time Assistant Coach Ashhad Agyapong) to the 2011 Outdoor World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
Lindsey was named the 2010 National Women’s Assistant Coach of the year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) and the Atlantic Region Assistant Coach of the Year for the teams’ tremendous accomplishments throughout the 2010 outdoor season.
A 2002 graduate of Rider University with a B.A. in History, Lindsey was a 5 time All-East performer serving as team captain his junior and senior years. During his collegiate career he was a 17-time conference champion.
No stranger to professional track and field, Lindsey has competed on the national and international scene for many years. He was a 2004 and 2008 Olympic trials qualifier in the 110 meter high hurdles. Lindsey is a three-time semi-finalist at the USA Indoor National Championships in the 60-meter high hurdles and has competed in many countries in Europe including Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and Belgium.
Lindsey also works with a professional training group.. He formed an Olympic level training group called AMK International for Olympic caliber athletes training in the Mercer County area.
Lindsey resides in Lawrenceville.
