Head Coach Walt Wandall

Walt Wandall is beginning his second full season as director of track & field and cross country at Moravian and third year as head coach of the track & field teams.

Over the last two seasons, Wandall has led the Greyhound women to four Landmark Conference and three ECAC Division III Championships and the Moravian men to three Landmark Conference titles and a pair of ECAC Division III Outdoor Championships. Wandall was also named the 2008 USTFCCCA Men's Indoor National Coach of the Year and the 2009 USTFCCCA Women's Mideast Region Coach of the Year

Wandall is in his tenth season with the Moravian track and field programs. He has coached on 20 indoor and outdoor conference championship teams in the previous nine seasons. Prior to coming to Moravian, coach Wandall was the jumps coach at both at Lehigh University and Lafayette College. Over those five years, he coached seven Patriot League champions and a Penn Relays women’s high jump champion and co-coached a Division I ECAC Champion in the women’s heptathlon.  

Over the last eight years, his athlete’s individual accomplishments include NCAA Champions in the men’s long jump in 2003 and 2008, a 2008 NCAA Champion decathlete at 7192 points, 52 NCAA Championship individual qualifiers and 12 All-Americans.  Six times his athletes have been voted USTCCA Mid-East track or field athletes of the year.  Nearly every school record in the sprints, jumps, hurdles, and relays has been broken by these athletes over the last 8 years. 

At the inaugural Landmark Conference team championships, he led both men’s and women’s teams to indoor and outdoor team championships.  In regional competition, Moravian women won the 2008 ECAC indoor and outdoor team championships while the Moravian men also won the 2008 outdoor championship and finished second indoors.  

Prior to coming to Moravian, Coach Walt had the distinct privilege of coaching jumpers at Lehigh University and Lafayette College.  Over those five years, he coached 7 Patriot league champions, a Penn Relays champion in the women’s high jump at 5’-9 ½”, and co-coached a Div. 1 ECAC Champion in the women’s Heptathlon, 5240 points. 

Personally, Coach Walt is USATF Level 2 certified in the jumps and Level 2 certified in the sprints, hurdles and relays.  As an athlete at Moravian, Coach Walt broke and set 12 school records and was the first Moravian long jumper to break 23 feet in 1988.  He was a member of the first championship team in 1989 and a team captain in 1990.  Coach Walt is pursuing an MBA from Moravian and lives in Whitehall, PA with his wife Hilary (Martin) Wandall, Moravian ’93, and two children, Taylor and Sophie.  In his free time, he enjoys woodworking, all types of fishing and recently earned his U.S Coast Guard Master Captain’s license.