Amy Falk brings more than a decade of elite running experience to Elizabethtown in 2013, her first year as an assistant coach with the men's and women's cross country and track & field teams.
Falk spent 10 years with the Brooks Ambassador Racing Team, finishing third in the 2001 Philadelphia Broad Street Run and third in the 2002 Baltimore Marathon. The 1994 graduate of Shippensburg University was chosen by Brooks to compete in the U.S. National 5k and 10k Road Racing Championships in 2001.
Falk got her coaching start at Dickinson College in 1995, where she was a graduate assistant with the Red Devils' track & field teams. She worked primarily with the distance runners, while lending a hand to the program's recruiting and fundraising efforts.
From 2001-07, Falk coached at the scholastic level with nearby Milton Hershey School. While there, the Trojan track & field program won five Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) state championships. Falk coached three medal-winning relay teams and three individual state medalists, including 2002 Boys' 800-meter run champion Jose Castillo.
Falk earned her bachelor of science in elementary education from Shippensburg in 1994. She was a two-time Division II Academic All-American in track & field (1992 and 1994) while a member of the Red Raiders, and was selected as the women's track & field team's MVP in 1992. Falk also earned a master of science from the university in 1996.
Falk currently works as a learning support and math teacher at Lower Dauphin High School. She is married to husband Brian, Elizabethtown College's Director of Cross Country/Track & Field. The couple lives in Hummelstown with their three sons Patrick, Owen and Clayton.
