Coach Caslin is in his 2nd year (1st non covid) as Cross Country Coach replacing the program founder Patrick Donohue. He was named Interim Head Track Coach in 2020, where he coached 100 meter conference champion Taylor Epps and 3k Steeplechase runner-up Hannah Campbell to all CSAC conference honors.
Coach Caslin comes to the Gators after a long and successful career at Goucher College where he was Men’s and Women’s Cross Country and Track & Field Coach. Hired in 1994 as Head Cross Country Coach, Caslin had 25 women and 17 men all conference athletes. He coached 4 conference champions, 4 rookies of years, 9 all mid east regional selections and 3 NCAA Division III national qualifiers, Jeff Olenick 1997, 2000, J. Fraley Coles 2007, and Joe Negreann 2011. His proudest moment in his 26 years at Goucher was having Jeff Olenick finishing 7th at the 2000 NCAA DIII National Championship in Spokane, Wa. where he was named 1st team All-American.
In the classroom his teams excelled as student athletes. 35 of his cross country teams made USTFCCA all academic team status with his women’s team in 2003 having the highest GPA all of in Division III. 42 individual athletes were named Academic All-American. 6 of his athletes were awarded Landmark Conference Senior Scholar Cross Country Award as the best academic student-athlete in the conference. Jeff Olenick won the Capital Athletic Conference Male Scholar Athlete twice.
In 1999, Goucher Athletic Director Geoff Miller named Caslin as the first coach of the men’s and women’s track and field programs. Working with some talented coaching staffs, The Gophers had 24 individual champions, 30 second team runner-ups along with 6 conference relay champions and 6 relay runners-up. Caslin teams had 2 conference runners of the year and 6 rookies of the year. He and his coaching staff were named women’s Coach of the year in 2002, 2003, and 2017. His women’s team academically qualified for the USTFCCA team academic award every year since inception. He has two female athletes qualify for the NCAA Outdoor National Championships.
Caslin got his start in coaching at his high school alma mater Chantilly High School in Northern Virginia. He started as indoor head girls coach in 1980 and worked as head coach for boys’ and girls’ cross country and girls head track coach through the spring of 1987. Among the athletes he coached were high school distance All American twins Amy and Sarah Colvin and future Foot Locker Cross Country All-American Hollie Moore. Named Fairfax Journal - Indoor T&F Coach of Year in 1986.
Caslin was Selected to the Chantilly High School Track & Field/ Cross Country Hall of Fame for Coaching in 2011.
Caslin also coached at Ursuline Academy in Wilmington De. In the fall of 1987, he was at the helm as Ursuline Academy won the Division 2 Girls Cross Country State Championship. In the spring of 1988, he coached with legendary Delaware coach Lou Olivere and helped Ursuline to the Division 2 Outdoor Track & Field State Title.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Religious Studies from Notre Dame in Maryland through the weekend college in 1995 where he was awarded the Outstanding Senior in Religious Studies in 1995.
Coach Caslin resides in Catonsville and has three outstanding adult children.
