- 2023 NESCAC Men's Cross Country Coaching Staff of the Year
- 2024 NESCAC Men's Track & Field Coaching Staff of the Year
- 2024 USTFCCCA Mideast Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year
- 2025 New England Division III Men's Indoor Track & Field Champions
- Coached 7 All-America Performances at Amherst
- 5-Time All-America Student-Athlete
Hannah Chappell-Dick was named the head coach of the Amherst College men's and women's cross country program in July 2023 and also serves as an assistant coach with the track and field programs, overseeing the distance runners.
The Mammoths have collected hardware quickly since Chappell-Dick’s arrival in Amherst. Both the men’s and women’s cross country programs qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships and finished as runners-up at the NESCAC Championships in each of Chappell-Dick’s first two seasons leading the Mammoths. The men’s track and field team won the New England Division III Indoor Championship in 2025, while both men’s and women’s track & field teams earned runner-up honors at the NESCAC Championships in each of Chappell-Dick’s first two seasons.
Chappell-Dick’s coaching staff was honored as the NESCAC Men’s Cross Country Coaching Staff of the Year in 2023 and Amherst runners on the men’s team have earned six All-NESCAC selections, including Rookie of the Year honors for Harrison Dow ’27 in 2023, in the last two seasons. The Mammoth men won two meets, including the Little Three Championship, in 2024 and have finished in the top 20 at the NCAA Championships in each of Chappell-Dick’s first two seasons at the helm.
The women’s cross country team has won five meets over Chappell-Dick’s first two seasons in Amherst, including back-to-back Little Three Championships. The Mammoths have earned four All-NESCAC selections under Chappell-Dick and back-to-back to trips to the national championships yielded a 14th-place finish in 2024.
Chappell-Dick has also been recognized for her distance runners’ success during track and field season. She was named the Mideast Region Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year by the USTFCCCA and was part of the coaching staff honored as the NESCAC Men’s Track & Field Coaching Staff of the Year after her first season with the Mammoths in 2024. Amherst distance runners have won six events at the NESCAC Championships and earned seven All-America accolades since Chappell-Dick’s arrival.
Chappell-Dick joined Amherst from Brown University, where she was promoted to head coach of the women's cross country program in February 2023 after joining the Brown cross country/track & field coaching staff in June of 2021.
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At Brown, Chappell-Dick coached first-year Nimrit Ahuja, who earned a silver medal at the 2023 Pan-Am U20 Championships in the 5000m at Brown after also finishing 2nd in the USATF U20 Championships this summer.
Prior to her Brown tenure, Chappell-Dick was a graduate assistant cross country and track & field coach at the University of Florida. She spent two years with the Gators (2019-21) where she assisted in coaching four NCAA Division I All-Americans while also supervising practices and training in addition to receiving her MBA.
"Hannah gets the D3 model from being a five-time All-American athlete at Eastern Mennonite and is committed to supporting students on and off the course and track," Amherst Director of Athletics Don Faulstick said upon her hiring. "She's worked with some of the most respected distance minds and athletes in the country – we're excited that she'll bring those experiences to our teams. I am excited to have her join our staff."
Before Florida, Chappell-Dick was a volunteer assistant coach at Georgia Tech from 2018-19. There, Chappell-Dick helped the women's cross country program earn its first NCAA Championship appearance since 2001. On the men's side, she assisted in coaching an NCAA All-American and USA Semifinalist.
In 2017, Chappell-Dick served as the interim head men's and women's cross country coach at her alma mater, Eastern Mennonite University. As a student-athlete at EMU, Chappell-Dick was one of 30 NCAA Women of the Year Honorees and a five-time NCAA Division III All-American.
Chappell-Dick graduated as EMU's school record holder in the 400m, 800m, 1500m, 4×100m relay, 4×400m relay and distance medley relay, and held the ODAC record in the mile. She was a three-time Regional Athlete of the Year, a six-time ODAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and a two-time EMU Athlete of the Year. She also served as a team captain and was chair of SAAC. She graduated in 2016 with a degree in biology while earning Cords of Distinction as one of the top 10 in her class.
HANNAH CHAPPELL-DICK COACHING CAREER
2023–present: Head Cross Country Coach/Assistant Track & Field Coach, Amherst College
2023: Named Head Coach of Women's Cross Country, Brown University
2021–23: Assistant Cross Country/Track & Field Coach, Brown University
2019–21: Graduate Assistant Cross Country/Track & Field Coach, University of Florida
2018–19: Volunteer Assistant Cross Country/Track & Field Coach, Georgia Tech
2017: Interim Head Cross Country Coach, Eastern Mennonite University
