Anna Willard - Men's Track & Field Coach - Boston College Athletics

Anna Willard

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
willarda@bc.edu

Willard joins the BCTF staff after competing professionally for over a decade, in a career that includes five US National Championships, Olympic & World Championships finals and world rankings across multiple events. Willard competed collegiately at Brown University as an undergrad, where she was an All-American and held 10 school records upon graduation in 2006. As a graduate at the University of Michigan, Willard became the NCAA Champion in the 3000m steeplechase, won multiple Big 10 Championships and was named Michigan’s female athlete of the year for 2006-07. In an illustrious track & field career, Willard would become the only female athlete in the world ever to have run sub-2:00 in the 800M, sub-4:00 in the 1500M, and sub-9:30 in the 3K steeplechase.

Willard transitioned to a career in coaching while also competing professionally. As a volunteer at the University of Michigan, Willard helped guide the Wolverines to a top-3 finish at the Big 10 Championships, and 21^st place finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championships. From 2015 on, Willard built a thriving, private coaching business, with a large and diverse roster of athletes.

A native of Greenwood, Maine, Willard was National Honor Society president, XC and Track State Champion and a shooting guard on her basketball team at Telstar Regional High School. Anna grew up on a 450 acre hay farm where she worked with her father every summer. Daughter of Albert and Nancy Willard, younger sister of Cooper Willard who played baseball at the University of Maine Farmington. Anna currently resides in Lowell Massachussetts, with her husband Bob Grenier, and her two Brittany Spaniels Lucca and Kilo.