Beth Alford-Sullivan - Women's Assistant Coach

The Penn State women track and cross country coach since 1999, Alford-Sullivan was previously responsible for women's cross country and distance runners at Stanford. She was the Pac 10 Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year in 1996, 97, and 98, and was the NCAA women's cross-country coach of the year in 1996 when Stanford won the NCAA team title. Her 1997 Stanford cross-country team was the national runner-up and her 1998 team finished third, and she coached 31 All-Americans while at Stanford.

A 1989 University of Minnesota graduate who was a three-year team captain for the Gophers, Alford-Sullivan moved to Stanford after serving as head coach of women's track and field and cross country for two years at Mankato State University in Minnesota.

Alford-Sullivan coached the 1997 U.S. World Junior Cross Country team and in 1994, was named the head coach of the U.S. women's Ekiden team In Beijing.

In 1995, she was an assistant track and field coach at the U.S. Olympic Festival in Colorado Springs. She currently is the president of the NCAA Women's Cross Country Association.

She is married to Jim Sullivan, a strength coach at Stanford.