Sean Livingston serves as Head Coach of both the Men's and Women's Cross Country teams and the Men’s and Women’s Track & Field teams. He has guided the RWU Cross Country teams since 2004 and the Track & Field teams since 2014, leading all four programs to great success in his tenure.
Livingston coached the Men’s Cross Country team to 11 consecutive Commonwealth Coast Conference Championships from 2004-14 while having coached the Women’s Cross Country team to eight total CCC Championships, winning the CCC title in 2019 and claiming seven straight championships from 2004-10. In his time at RWU, he has coached ten male CCC Runners of the Year, seven male CCC Rookies of the Year, seven female CCC Runners of the Year, and three female CCC Rookies of the Year. In addition, he has coached 64 All-CCC male runners and 44 All-CCC female runners to date. In 2013, he coached the first All-American in Roger Williams Cross Country history, as Hannah Zydanowicz placed 25th at the NCAA Championships. One season later, he coached Tim McGowan to the first NCAA Championship berth in RWU Men’s Cross Country history.
Livingston spent three seasons as head coach of the Men’s and Women’s Track & Field teams before moving to assistant coach in 2012. In his three years at the helm of the program, he helped the men win three straight Commonwealth Coast Conference Championships and the women win two CCC titles. He resumed his post as head coach in 2014 and has since then coached the Men’s and Women’s teams to five CCC Championships each while being named CCC Women’s Track & Field Coach of the Year in 2018, 2019, and 2021. In addition, he has coached 23 student-athletes across both programs to All-New England status. In 2018, he aided Savannah Fox Tree-McGrath in qualifying for the NCAA Championship in the High Jump and Javelin Throw, becoming the first RWU Track & Field student-athlete—male or female—to compete in the NCAA Championship.
In addition to his teams’ prowess on the course, his teams have also fared just as well in the classroom. His Women’s Cross Country teams earned nine straight U.S. Track & Field Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic team selections from 2004-12, while the Men’s Cross Country team earned the honor from 2010-12.
Livingston came to the University after having served for six years as the head boy’s and girl’s cross country coach at St. Raphael Academy in Pawtucket. For three seasons, Livingston worked as the head boy’s outdoor track and field coach at Shea High School and also served an additional four years as an assistant at both of those high schools. Livingston also served as a volunteer assistant coach at his alma mater, Ithaca College.
He has been running his entire life and has been very successful at every level. At Ithaca College, he was a three-time All-American. Livingston finished fourth in the NCAA Division III National Cross Country Championships in 1990 and earned All-American honors in the 1,500 meters in indoor and outdoor track and field on one occasion each. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in History/Government from Ithaca in May of 1991.
He was a seven-time New York State Collegiate or Independent College Athletic Conference champion between cross country and track and field.
Livingston was the 1991 Ithaca College Spring Scholar-Athlete Award Winner and was a three-time captain of the Bombers’ cross country and track and field teams. In 1997, he was inducted into the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame.
At Kennett High School in Conway, New Hampshire, he earned All-American honors in 1986. Livingston is an active runner for the Boston Athletic Association’s Racing Team.
Livingston has two daughters, Abigail and Caroline, and currently resides in Barrington with his wife Kerry.
