President:

Steve Laska

Vice President:

Jay Morrissey

Treasurer:

Karen Lemerise

Assistant Treasurer:

Mike Keating

Membership Secretary:

JoAnne Bedard 

Clerk:

Brandy Murphy

Members-at-Large:

Matt Hall

Matt Guarino

Jack O’Reilly

Linda Luthman

Kim Gordon

Heidi Richard

Barbara McManus: Team Coordinator


Coaches:

Coach Al Halper Head Coach

Coach Al Halper has been coaching adult runners regularly for a variety of race distances, including the Marathon, for over 20 years. Al worked with runners at Assumption College training for the Boston Marathon as “Rena’s Run” and trained runners associated with the National Stroke Association who were running
a marathon to fundraise for the organization. An accomplished runner and former XC/trackman at Rutgers University, originally from of Middletown, NY, Al draws his knowledge from personal experience and 42 years of coaching along with being a student of the sport, continually staying atop of what is current within the sport.


He has been the head coach for CMS since 2006 organizing group runs and speed workouts during the year. He has developed for CMS, specific training programs at a variety of distances. A respected lecturer at camps and clinics, Halper, known for his expertise, provides a wealth of knowledge regarding training programs, functional training, speed, speed endurance training, strength training, and form analysis. Halper has also done graduate work in sports medicine giving him a background in injury prevention and rehab including an expertise in hydrotraining and therapy. Read Coach Al’s Full Bio

Barbara McManus CMS Women’s Racing Team Coordinator and CMS Club Contact for the USATF (USA Track and Field Associate)

Barbara has been running for over 30 years and has been a member of CMS for about 25 years. She has run 40 marathons and 1 50K, winning 6 marathons and 1 50k, and was a member of the CMS Team that won the Team Competition at the Boston Marathon in 2008. She has placed in the top 10 in the National Mountain Championships at Mt. Washington twice. Her marathon PR is 2:50:37. She has been a coach with CMS, Becker College, and SPCC Middle School.

Scott Mindel CMS Men’s Racing Team Coordinator

Scott has been running since the summer track series where he grew up in upstate New York when he was four years old. After running Cross Country and Track at the University of Cincinnati, he moved up to the marathon distance. Winner of the 2018 Baystate Marathon, he has finished in the top 30 all four times he has run Boston, including 19th in 2012 and 22nd in 2017. His PR of 2:22:25 is also at Boston in the 2013 edition. He has been on the CMS racing team since he moved to the Boston area in 2015 and he has been the USATF-NE Men’s Long Distance Running Chair since 2016.

Paul Reilly Summer Speed Work/Track Coach

– Now competing for the CMS Men’s Team, Paul Reilly has had a long and accomplished history as a runner. He competed at the 2002 World Cross Country Championships and 1996 European Cross Country Championships. In 2000, he won the New England 3000m Indoor Championships followed in 2001 with a victory at the IC4A championships. In addition, he was a member of two Big East Cross Country Championship winning teams and a scoring member of the 3rd place NCAA Championship Providence squad. He holds personal best times of 1500m (3:50.8), Mile (4:08.5), 3000m (8:12.2), 5000m (13:56.1), Half marathon (69:46), and Marathon (2:33).
Paul has coached at the college and high school level. He is also currently a Camp Coach at Speedy Kidz. Paul joined CMS as a coach in April, 2018.


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