Allegheny College Athletics

Ben Mourer returned to Allegheny College in December of 2015 to lead the Gator Cross Country Team and assist the track and field programs. In June of 2022, he was elevated to the position of Head Track and Field Coach in addition to leading the cross country teams.
 
Since 2016, Mourer has coached numerous All-NCAC and All-Region runners, as well as five All-American.  In addition to those honors, Mourer has also had three NCAC Newcomers of the Year.  He has had six teams and three individuals qualify for the Division-III National Championships. He has won four North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) team titles and a three individual championships. 
 
In 2019, he helped coach Emily Forner to a Division-III Indoor National Championship in the 3K.  Overall, his distance runners have earned seven NCAC Distance Runner of the Year honors.

A 2007 Allegheny graduate, Mourer returned to his alma mater after spending seven years at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, including four as the head cross country and associate head track and field coach.

At the helm of the Kohawk cross country program, Mourer coached Coe's first ever Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion and IIAC MVP, as well as three NCAA Championship qualifiers, while he significantly increased the size of both the men's and women's cross country rosters through recruitment.

Mourer also saw various distance runners re-write the Coe track and field record book.  In 2011, Keeley Finnel became Coe's first NCAA National Champion, finishing first in the 800 meter run, before finishing runner-up in the event a season later.  She earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors each season.  A total of 24 Coe distance and mid-distance runners earned All-Conference honors during Mourer's tenure, while six new school records were set.

Mourer began his coaching career as an assistant at Coe in 2009, while earning a Masters in Teaching.  During his six-year tenure in Cedar Rapids, he also served as an adjunct instructor in the school's physical education department, teaching a pair of classes while helping to create and implement the department's curricula.

A native of Chicora, Pennsylvania, Mourer was a four-year Alden Scholar at Allegheny, graduating in 2007 with a degree in history.  He was a key member of the Gator track and field and cross country teams during an era of unprecedented success.  In cross country, Allegheny won the North Coast Athletic Conference championship in all four of Mourer's seasons, while turning in a pair of top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championship, highlighted by the team's third-place showing in 2006.  Individually, he was a three-time All-NCAC honoree, twice earning First Team honors, including a 2007 season in which he finished as conference runner-up. 

Specializing in the 1,500, mile, and 5,000, Mourer was also a six-time All-NCAC honoree in track and field, and helped the Gators to four straight NCAC indoor and outdoor team titles.

Mourer and wife Kim, also an Allegheny graduate, reside in Meadville, and are the parents of sons Arthur and Henry. 

Allegheny Career Coaching Highlights

2025 Men's Outdoor Track and Field

• One Second Team All-American: Aaron Moon (Long Jump/10th place)
• One National Qualifier: Aaron Moon (Long Jump)
• Two All-Region Performances: Aaron Moon (Long Jump, Decathlon)
• 2nd at PAC Championships
• PAC MVP: Aaron Moon
• PAC Field Athlete of the Year: Aaron Moon
• PAC Track Athlete of the Year: Aaron Moon
• Four PAC Championships: Grant Miller (Pole Vault), Aaron Moon (Long Jump, Triple Jump, 110 Hurdles)
• 11 All-PAC Performances: Jordan Anderson (4x400), Cole Jooste (4x400), Grant Miller (Pole Vault), Aaron Moon (110 Hurdles, Long Jump, Triple Jump, 400 Hurdles, Pole Vault), Austin Stewart (400, 4x400), Zack Wyse (4x400)

2025 Women's Outdoor Track and Field

• Two Second Team All-Americans: Laila Davis (Hammer), Elizabeth Lubold (Javelin)
• Three National Qualifiers: Laila Davis (Hammer/9th place), Elizabeth Lubold (Javelin/15th place), Chloe Bonson (5,000/22nd place)
• Five All-Region: Angelee Bawek (Javelin), Chloe Bonson (5,000), Laila Davis (Hammer), Corrine Inkley (Pole Vault), Elizabeth Lubold (Javelin)
• 2nd at PAC Championships
• 17 All-PAC Performances: Angelee Bawek (Discus), Chloe Bonson (5,000), Celia Cocca (4x400), Marrin Crist (Steeplechase), Laila Davis (Discus), Evie Ellenberger (Triple Jump, 4x100), Corrine Inkley (Pole Vault), Skye Kramer (4x400), Elizabeth Lubold (Javelin), Emma Miller (Shot Put), Rosa Monarch (4x100), Shyann Rulander (4x400), Aubryanna Snyder (4x100), Nelly Stafford (1,500), Renee Tetlow (4x400), Megan Zimmerman (4x100)

2025 Men's Indoor Track and Field

• PAC MVP: Aaron Moon
• PAC Field Athlete of the Year: Aaron Moon
• 2nd at PAC Championships
• Three PAC Champions: Grant Miller (Pole Vault), Aaron Moon (Long Jump, Triple Jump)
• Six All-PAC Performances: Carter Betz (Long Jump), Caleb Freeman (3,000), Grant Miller (Pole Vault), Aaron Moon (Long Jump, Triple Jump, 60 Hurdles)

2025 Women's Indoor Track and Field

• Five All-Region Selections: Chloe Bonson (3,000, DMR), Celia Cocca (DMR), Renee Tetlow (DMR), Logan Wagner (DMR)
• One PAC Champion: Chloe Bonson (5,000)
• 11 All-PAC Performances: Chloe Bonson (3,000, 5,000), Celia Cocca (800, 4x400), Evie Ellenberger (Long Jump), Emma Miller (Shout Put), Aubryanna Snyder (Long Jump), Nelly Stafford (Mile, 4x400), Renee Tetlow (4x400), Wagner (4x400)

2024 Men's Cross Country

• 32nd at Great Lakes Regional
• 6th at PAC Championships
• One All-PAC Selection: Caleb Freeman (2nd)

2024 Women's Cross Country

• One NCAA Championship Participant: Chloe Bonson
• Two All-Region Selections: Chloe Bonson, Marrin Crist
• 8th at Great Lakes Regional
• PAC Champions
• PAC Coach of the Year
• Six All-PAC Selections: Chloe Bonson (1st), Marrin Crist (1st), Nelly Stafford (1st) Celia Cocca (2nd), Mazzie Standish (HM), Shyann Rulander (HM)

2024 Men's Outdoor Track and Field

• 5th at PAC Championships
• One PAC Champion: Grant Miller (Pole Vault)
• One AARTFC Champion: Aaron Moon (Decathlon)
• Five All-PAC Performances: Grant Miller (Pole Vault), Aaron Moon (High Jump, Triple Jump, Pole Vault), Austin Stewart (400)

2024 Women's Outdoor Track and Field

• One NCAA Nationals Qualifier: Elizabeth Lubold (Javelin/19th place)
• 2nd at PAC Championships
• 17 All-PAC Performances: Zoe Romanowski (400, 4x100, 4x400), Celia Cocca (800, 4x400), Marrin Crist (5k, Steeplechase), Emma Miller (Shot Put), Corrine Inkley (Pole Vault), Laila Davis (Shot Put), Logan Wagner (400, 4x400), Elizabeth Lubold (Javelin), Renee Tetlow (4x400), Skye Kramer (4x100), AB Snyder (4x100), Rosa Monarch (4x100)

2024 Men's Indoor Track and Field

• 4th at PAC Championships
• PAC Athlete of the Year: Aaron Moon
• Four All-PAC Performances: Aaron Moon (60, Long Jump, Triple Jump), Grant Miller (Pole Vault)

2024 Women's Indoor Track and Field

• 2nd at PAC Championships
• Two PAC Champions: Laila Davis (Weight Throw), Emma Miller (Shot Put)
• Eight All-PAC Performances: Emma Miller (Shot Put), Laila Davis (Weight Throw), Renee Tetlow (400, 4x400), Marrin Crist (5k), Celia Cocca (4x400), Skye Kramer (4x400), Zoe Romanowski (4x400)

2023 Men's Cross Country

• 22nd at NCAA Great Lakes Regional
• 3rd at PAC Championships
• Four All-PAC Runners: Peter Lantz (1st), Caleb Freeman (2nd), Sam Hetrick (2nd), Colm Mulligan (HM)

2023 Women's Cross Country

• 14th at NCAA Great Lakes Regional
• 2nd at PAC Championships
• Five All-PAC Runners: Nelly Stafford (1st), Marrin Crist (2nd), Celia Cocca (2nd), Mazzie Standish (HM), Shyann Rulander (HM)

2023 Men's Outdoor Track and Field

• One NCAA Nationals Qualifier: Jacob Boord (4th in Javelin)
• 5th at PAC Championships
• Three PAC Champions: Peter Lantz (Steeplechase, Stephen Cullinan (Pole Vault), Jacob Boord (Javelin)
• Four All-PAC Performances: Sean Heintzleman (5k), Peter Lantz (Steeplechase), Stephen Cullinan (Pole Vault), Jacob Boord (Javelin)

2023 Women's Outdoor Track and Field

• One NCAA Nationals Qualifier: Mihaela Toader (17th in 400)
• PAC Champions
• PAC Coach of the Year
• Four PAC Championships: MIhaela Toader (200, 400), Megan Aaron (10k), Emma Miller (Shot Put)
• 11 All-PAC Performances: Mihaela Toader (100, 200, 400), Celia Cocca (800), Megan Aaron (5k, 10k), Leuca Hanish (10k), Marrin Crist (Steeplechase), Elizabeth Lubold (Javelin), Emma Miller (Shot Put), Laila Davis (Shot Put)

2023 Men's Indoor Track and Field

• 6th at PAC Championships
• Two PAC Champions: Stephen Cullinan (Pole Vault), Jacob King (Weight Throw)
• Two All-PAC Performances: Stephen Cullinan (Pole Vault), Jacob King (Weight Throw)

2023 Women's Indoor Track and Field

• PAC Champions
• PAC Coach of the Year
• Four PAC Champions: Mihaela Toader (200, 400), Emma Miller (Shot Put), Lydia Giannini (Weight Throw)
• Nine All-PAC Performaces: Mihaela Toader (60, 200, 400), Celia Cocca (800), Megan Aaron (5k), 4x400 Relay (Renee Tetlow, Nelly Stafford, Julieta Schworm, Mihaela Toader), Emma Miller (Shot Put), Laila Davis (Shot Put), Lydia Giannini (Weight Throw)

2022 Men's Cross Country

• 19th at Great Lakes Regional
• PAC Runner-Up
• Five All-PAC Runners: Sean Heintzleman (1st), Peter Lantz (2nd), Caleb Freeman (2nd), Joe McAuliffe (2nd), Mac Polny (HM)

2022 Women's Cross Country

• 7th at Great Lakes Regional
• Two All-Regional Runners: Mazzie Standish, Leuca Hanish
• PAC Champions
• PAC Coach of the Year
• Eight All-PAC Runners: Mazzie Standish (1st), Leuca Hanish (1st), Megan Aaron (2nd), Nelly Stafford (2nd), Sarah Maue (2nd), Celia Cocca (HM), Eva Kerr (HM), Madeline Allen (HM)

2021 Men's Cross Country

• 17th at Great Lakes Regional
• All-Region Runner: Logan Meyer
• 2nd at NCAC Championships 
• Four All-NCAC Runners: Sean Heintzelman (1st), Logan Meyer (1st), Peter Lantz (2nd), Adam Cook (HM)

2021 Women's Cross Country

• 30th at NCAA Championships
• 6th at Great Lakes Regional
• Two All-Region Runners: Megan Aaron, Sarah Maue
• NCAC Championship
• NCAC Coach of the Year
• NCAC Runner of the Year: Megan Aaron
• NCAC Newcomer of the Year: Emma Wall
• NCAC Champion: Megan Aaron
• Seven All-NCAC Runners: Megan Aaron (1st), Emma Wall (1st), Molly Tarvin (1st), Sarah Maue (2nd), Eva Kerr (2nd), Marrin Crist (HM), Mazzie Standish (HM)

2019 Men's Cross Country

• 17th at Great Lakes Regional
• Third at NCAC Championships
• NCAC Newcomer of the Year: Owen Isham
• Three All-NCAC Runners: Owen Isham (1st), Tim Weighart (1st), Logan Meyer (2nd)

2019 Women's Cross Country

• 28th at NCAA Championships
• All-American Runner: Mica Hanish (20th place)
• Fifth at Great Lakes Regional
• Three All-Region Runners: Mica Hanish, Sarah Lucas, Molly Tarvin
• Third at NCAC Championships
• Four All-NCAC Runners: Mica Hanish (1st), Molly Tarvin (2nd), Sarah Lucas (2nd), Jacelyn Alberts (2nd)

2018 Men's Cross Country

• NCAA Championship Qualifier: Matt Svetz
• 12th at Great Lakes Regional
• All-Region Runner: Matt Svetz
• NCAC Runner-Up
• Three All-NCAC Runners: Matt Svetz (1st), TIm Weighart (2nd) Louis McUmber (HM)

2018 Women's Cross Country

• 13th at NCAA Championships
• Two All-American Honors: Emily Forner (9th place), Sarah Hevener (39th-place)
• Great Lakes Regional Runner-up
• Three All-Regional Runners: Emily Forner, Sarah Hevener, Mica Hanish
• NCAC Runner-up
• NCAC Champion: Emily Forner
• NCAC Runner of the Year: Emily Forner
• Five All-NCAC Runners: Emily Forner (1st), Sarah Hevener (1st), Mica Hanish (1st), Sarah Lucas (2nd), Molly Tarvin (1st)

2017 Men's Cross Country

• Two NCAA Championship Qualifiers: Matt Svetz, John Hughes
• Ninth at Great Lakes Regional
• Three All-Regional Runners: John Hughes, Matt Svetz, Carter Smith
• NCAC Runner-Up
• Three All-NCAC Runners: John Hughes (1st), Matt Svetz (1st), Carter Smith (1st)
• NCAC Newcomer of the Year: Adam Cook

2017 Women's Cross Country

• 18th at NCAA Championship
• Third at Great Lakes Regional
• Three All-Region Runners: Sarah Hevener, Olivia Mamula, Emily Forner
• NCAC Champions
• NCAC Coach of the Year
• Six All-NCAC Runners: Sarah Hevener (1st), Olivia Mamula (1st), Emily Forner (1st), Mica Hanish (2nd), Emma Himelein-Wachowiak (2nd), Jesse Margraf

2016 Men's Cross Country

• 16th at NCAA Division-III Championships
• Two All-American Runners: Dan Cheung (5th place), Randy Violette (17th place)
• Great Lakes Regional Runner-Up
• Great Lakes Regional Champion: Dan Cheung
• Great Lakes Regional Runner of the Year: Dan Cheung
• Three All-Region Runners: Dan Cheung, Randy Violette, Carter Smith 
• NCAC Champions
• NCAC Champion: Dan Cheung
• NCAC Runner of the Year: Dan Cheung
• NCAC Coach of the Year
• Six All-NCAC Runners: Dan Cheung (1st), Randy Violette (1st), Carter Smith (2nd), John Hughes (2nd), Matt Svetz (2nd), Emmett Barr (HM)

2016 Women's Cross Country 

• 13th at NCAA Division-III Championships
• Great Lakes Regional Runner-Up
• Four All-Region Runners: S.J. Guillaume, Sarah Hevener, Monica Patrick, Emily Forner
• NCAC Champions
• NCAC Coach of the Year
• Four All-NCAC Runners: S.J. Guillaume (1st), Monica Patrick (1st), Sarah Hevener (1st), Emily Forner (2nd)