Head men's and women's track & field coach, Lisa Morgan-Richman, heads into her third year after two successful seasons of the Bloomfield College program which saw the men's team finish in 2nd place at the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Championships in 2016 and women's team joining them in 2017. Coach Morgan-Richman also became the head men's and women's cross-country coach at Bloomfield in the Fall of 2017.
Lisa joined the Bears after a decorated career that has seen her guide teams at the highest levels of international competition.
Born and raised in Newark, Morgan-Richman started running track when she was in kindergarten at Mt. Vernon Elementary School in Ivy Hill, located in Newark's West Ward.
While growing up she followed in the footsteps of her brother and sister, Jerome and Michele Morgan, all the way from the Newark Mighty Midgets and Newark YMCA Track Teams to high school and college track stardom.
This is Morgan-Richman’s second collegiate coaching position after a stint from 1993-2003 at the Division I level with Seton Hall University. During her time as Associate Head Coach for the Pirates, Morgan-Richman guided the team to 23 school records, coached 45 Big East champions and 26 NCAA All-Americans. She led the women’s team to a third-place NCAA finish in 1994.
The University of Kentucky graduate also holds international coaching experience with Team USA Track & Field. In 2010-2011 she served as the distance coach at the IAAF World Youth Championships in France. Morgan-Richman served as head coach for Team USA in 2012-2013 when she led 43 athletes and 12 staff members on a three-week overseas trip to Ukraine for the World Youth Championships. In 2014, Lisa coached Team USA at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon and the 2015 in Cali, Columbia. In 2015, Coach Morgan-Richman was also inducted into the 2015 NJ State Coaches Hall of Fame.
Rounding out her experience, Coach Morgan-Richman began as an associate coach of cross-country and track & field at Columbia High School (Maplewood, N.J.) in 1989. In 1990, she took over the cross-country head coaching position at East Orange High School in East Orange, N.J. She returned to Columbia High in 2007 and produced the first national team championship in the school’s history. Morgan-Richman also led Columbia to five consecutive state championships from 2010-2014 and was inducted into the Columbia High School Hall of Fame in 2017. Coach Morgan-Richman was also inducted into the 2015 NJ State Coaches Hall of Fame and the NY Armory Hall of Fame in 2017.
Coach Morgan-Richman currently resides in Orange, N.J. with her husband Duke and their son, Duke Richman II.
