The 2025-26 season marks Kevin Curtin's 15th as Bentley University's cross country head coach and 16th season as the track and field head coach.
Curtin's teams had highly successful seasons in 2024-25. The women's cross country team won the first NE10 Championship in program history. Caitlin Burmester qualified individually for the NCAA Championship and won the East Region championship. The men's cross country team qualified as a team for the NCAA Championship.
Curtin was named the 2024 NE10 Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year.
The men's track and field team combined to win 10 medals at the NE10 Indoor and Outdoor Championships, with five of those gold. The women's team hauled in eight combined medals, with four golds.
Individual awards in track saw Lily Tedford named the NE10 Women's Rookie of the Year for the indoor season.
In 2023, both the men's and women's cross country programs had representatives at the NCAA Championship. Sam Capobianco qualified on the men's side and Caitlin Burmester qualified on the women's side. The men's team also qualified in 2012, 2015 and 2016 and the women's team in 2011 and 2013.
In addition, his student-athletes have earned a total of nine All-America and 13 CoSIDA Academic All-America awards.
A Billerica native, Curtin was named the USTFCCCA Division II East Region Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year in both 2012 and 2015.
Prior to Bentley, Curtin was the head coach of the New Balance Boston Track Club from 2003-10. He was named Bentley's men’s and women’s track and cross country coach in December 2010.
Curtin, during his tenure with New Balance, had two of his athletes quality for the Olympic Trials and two earn spots on United States national teams. He also coached six athletes to the U.S. nationals and coached teams which finished second in the National Cross Country Club Championships in 2007 and 2008.
His duties with New Balance Boston included designing and implementing all workouts and training schedules for 40 post-collegiate athletes, recruiting graduating athletes and relocating post-collegiate athletes to run for the club, and coordinating the New Balance Twilight Meet Series that has been held at Bentley.
Curtin’s coaching resume also includes a year (1986-87) as an assistant track coach at his alma mater, Brandeis University, and a year (1992-93) as head coach at Needham High School. He was also head coach of Reebok Boston from 2003-05 and an assistant with the same club team for the previous five years.
As an athlete, Curtin participated in the 1988 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 1500 meters, earned All-America honors in cross country for Brandeis, and was captain of the Judges’ 1983 NCAA Division III national championship team.
Curtin, who resides in his hometown of Billerica, was inducted into the Billerica High School Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Brandeis Hall of Fame eight years later. He graduated from Brandeis in 1984.
Curtin’s family has longtime ties with Bentley. His grandfather, Francis Curtin, was part of the class of 1927.
