Andrew Dorr started coaching at Roberts as a Volunteer Assistant in 2008. He and his wife, Jennifer,
served as co-Head Cross Country Coaches starting in 2011. And then in September 2018, Dorr was
elevated to his current role of Director of Cross Country and Track & Field. Coach Dorr is responsible for
overseeing all four programs (Men's/Women's Cross Country and Men's/Women's Track & Field),
though his primary coaching duties are with the distance runners throughout Cross Country and Indoor
and Outdoor Track & Field.
Entering 2024, Coach Dorr has led the Men’s and Women's Cross Country programs to nine straight East
Coast Conference (ECC) Championships. He has also been named ECC Cross Country Coach of the Year
for 11 straight seasons. In all, Dorr has accumulated 22 conference coach of the year awards in his
career. Dorr led the Women’s Cross Country Program to consecutive NCCAA national titles in 2013 and
2014 and also earned NCCAA DI Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year alongside his wife in both of
those years. He was also named NCAA DII Cross Country East Region Coach of the Year by USTFCCCA in
2014 and 2019 after the Women’s (’14) and Men’s (’19) Cross Country Teams won East Region
Championship Titles. In 2021, Dorr was named Men’s DII Indoor Track & Field East Region Coach of the
Year.
Nationally, the Women’s Cross Country Teams have made nine appearances at the NCAA Division II
Championships (’14 - ’23) and the Roberts men have made four (’14, ’19, ’22, ’23). The program’s best
finish was the women’s team’s 9 th place in 2014.
Coach Dorr has left no stone un-turned in the effort to develop every distance runner in the program to
his or her potential. Of note is Dorr’s commitment to the health of the runners. Distance running is a
brutal sport where the objective is to ride the line between the highest level of fitness and potential
breakdown. Research has shown that eighty-three percent of runners will get injured at some point in
their career and perhaps as many as fifty percent will have an injury which prevents training and racing
every year. Coach Dorr has partnered with area physical therapists to develop diagnostic, preventative,
and rehabilitative programs specifically designed for distance runners in upstate New York.
The Coaches Dorr live in Churchville with their three sons: Levi (8), Asher (5), and Ezra (3). The young
members of the Dorr family can often be found nearby roping the runners into playtime and cheering on
the team during practice and competitions.
Coaching Philosophy
Athletics is perhaps the most demanding activity in which college students can be involved. Achieving
your potential as a runner requires understanding of the sport, self-awareness and patience, and self-
discipline and unwavering commitment. My duties as a coach are to direct and guide the team
members down the desired path and over obstacles each will inevitably face. An athlete’s mind, body,
and character are put to the test through the pursuit of excellence and growing in all three of these is a
priority. While I want everyone to improve, run fast, and win when it matters most, a majority of our
team meetings and individual conversations are not specific to running, but rather to navigating life. I
can best serve the student-athletes by helping them implement wisdom into their daily lives and finding
hope that will sustain them through every season of sport or life. Principles, such as delayed
gratification, and productive, moral living are equally helpful in all of life’s endeavors, so these are
certainly keys to success for high-achieving student-athletes.
