Harry Freeman returned to the Spartan women’s cross country and track and field program in 2012-13 as an assistant coach. He works with the cross country and long-distance runners.
Freeman returned to NSU after serving as the head men’s and women’s cross country and track and field coach at Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C., during the 2011-12 school year.
Overall, this will be Freeman’s seventh season working on the NSU track and field staff. He was an assistant coach from 2006-11, working first with the men’s program (2006-08) and then the women’s (2008-09) before assisting with both from 2009-11. Freeman had a hand in the NSU men and women capturing 14 MEAC titles during that time period.
Previously, Freeman was an assistant coach for the St. Augustine’s College men’s and women’s cross country and track programs from 1990-96 and 1998-2005. His primary responsibility was to coach the cross country team, and he also assisted with the track team’s middle-distance runners and quarter-milers. Freeman guided the Falcons to the 2000 Division II Southeast Region Cross Country title, and was named the regional Coach of the Year that season.
Freeman also helped the Falcons to 16 NCAA Division II indoor and outdoor track team championships during his tenure.
Freeman was also a standout runner for the Falcons from 1979-83. He was the three-time CIAA Cross Country Most Outstanding Performer and was the 1982 NCAA Division II Southeast Regional champion. That same year, Freeman became the first Division II cross country All-American in CIAA history. He still holds the school’s cross country records for 8,000 and 10,000 meters.
Freeman has nearly two decades of experience in directing summer youth programs in the Raleigh, N.C. area and in the Hampton Roads region. He also has a decade of classroom teaching experience, most recently as a physical education teacher in the Newport News Public Schools system.
Freeman earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education from St. Augustine’s in 1983. His son, also named Harry, is a member of the NSU football team.
