Forester Cross Country

Career Highlights
	Third year at the helm of the Forester program and 12th in coaching
	Coached Lake Forest runners to four of the top 10 men's 8K and three of the top 10 women's 5K times in team history
	2006 MWC Women's Co-Coach of the Year and two-Time Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year
	Coached athletes to 23 all-conference performances in seven years as a collegiate head coach
	Spent five seasons as head coach at NCAA Div. II Goldey-Beacom College, where he started both the men's and women's programs

The 2008 season will be Kelly Parsley's third year as head cross country coach at Lake Forest and 12th overall in the coaching field.

The Foresters placed sixth (men) and eighth (women) at the 2007 Midwest Conference Championship Meet. Freshman Kahiye Hassan placed 12th to become the fourth All-MWC runner in the men's team's history.

Hassan is the third Forester to be named all-conference under Parsely's direction, joining Leann Kimmons and Katie Snowden, who placed among the top 10 at the MWC Championships in 2006 when the women's team had it highest-ever finish at the meet. Lake Forest runners have also earned 10 Academic All-Midwest Conference honors in the last two seasons.

Parsley spent the previous five years at NCAA Division II Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington, Delaware. He started the men's cross country program at Goldey-Beacom in 2001 and began the women's program the following year. The Lightning men claimed Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference titles in 2002 and 2003, the team's second and third year of existence, and he was named CACC Coach of the Year following both of those seasons. He coached athletes to 19 all-conference performances and a CACC Runner of the Year award in his five years with the program.

Prior to starting the program at Goldey-Beacom, Parsley was an assistant cross country coach at NCAA Division III Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania from 1997-99.

Parsley was also the head indoor and outdoor track & field coach at Hodgson Vo-Tech High School in Glasgow, Delaware, from 1998 to 2006. His boys team lost just four dual meets during his time with the program and the girls squad he started in 2001 has been nearly as successful.

Parsley graduated from California University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and earned a Master's Degree from West Chester University in 2004.

After running at Greensburg Salem High School and Califormia University, Parsley has continued his running career and has competed in several marathons with a career-best time of 2:38.54.