Vince Touey
Head Track & Field/XC Coach
Phone: 610-499-4453
Email:
vptouey@widener.edu
Vince Touey is in his 21st season as Widener’s head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country and track and field teams. He took over a program that was a near last-place finisher in the Middle Atlantic Conference, but has turned it into one which consistently is among the front runners in the conference each season.
Under Touey’s watch, Widener won the 1997 men’s cross country title for its first crown in 24 years and 10 men’s track and field titles. He also helped the women’s track and field team to a conference title in 1994. Touey has coached numerous individual Middle Atlantic Conference champions and has produced 21 All-Americas, including a six-time national champion in Macharia Yuot and 12 of Widener’s 43 national Academic All-Americas.
After guiding the men’s outdoor track and field team to the 1999 conference title for the first time in his career, Touey was named the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. He again was selected region Coach of the Year after the team won their fourth straight Middle Atlantic Conference Indoor Track and Field title and fifth in six years.
Widener in 2006 won another MAC championship, capturing the men’s outdoor title. For his effort, Touey was named the league’s Coach of the Year.
Touey previously taught at St. James High School, coaching the cross country and track and field teams. The outdoor track team placed first at the Delaware County Championships in 1983. In 1986, his freshmen cross country team won the Catholic League Championship.
Touey, holder of a 1996 Masters of Education from Widener, received a Bachelor of Science in Labor Relations from La Salle University in 1980. He was a member of the school’s 4x800-meter relay team, which held the school record for nine years.
Another personal honor was achieved in 1983, when he won the Penn Relays Marathon. Touey also competed in the 1999 Boston Marathon, placing 206th in his age group of over 2,500 competitors and 905th overall in a field of almost 13,000.
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