Staff Bios.
David Stewart
Assistant Coach, Boys Cross Country
Boys Varsity Cross Country
Dave Stewart has served as a volunteer assistant with the HMHS cross country and track programs since 2015, and as Assistant Cross Country Coach under Nick Baker since 2017.He is USATF certified as a Level 1 track coach and as a cross country specialist, as well as Certified as an interscholastic coach by the NFHS.
He previously served for three years as the Head Cross Country and Assistant Track Coach at Johns Hopkins University and as a volunteer assistant at Ferris High School in Jersey City. He is a graduate of Cherry Hill East, where was named Most Valuable Runner, and of Johns Hopkins, where he was a Captain of the Cross Country team, an individual qualifier for Division III Nationals and Middle Atlantic Conference medalist in the 1500.
He has continued to compete in open and masters competition, running times such as 8:30 for the indoor 3k and 14:50 for 5k on the track as open competitor, and times ranging from 19:28 for four miles to 1:50 for 20 on the roads. As a masters competitor he has won age group awards in races such as the Philadelphia Marathon, Broad Street 10-Miler, Bridge Run and the MAUSATF 1500. He has also served as an NJSIAA track official, as President of the South Jersey Athletic Club and as race director of the Pennypacker Park Open cross country meet.
All three of his children, Veronica, Miranda and Matt, attended HMHS and competed for either Nick or Maureen Baker. Matt, Class of 2014, was a varsity member of the 2013 State Championship team and a State qualifier in the 3200. He went on to run at RPI, where he was a varsity member of two National Championship qualifying teams.
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Email:
DStewart@haddonfield.k12.nj.us
Phone: 8569795875