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Speed Project Director - Coach Fred Doyle


Coaching Career - Bishop Fenwick High School


  • Head Boys & Girls XC Coach @ Bishop Fenwick HS
  • Swampscott HS Teams were State Divisional runner-ups 6 times in Cross Country
  • Boys & Girls Track teams each won a State Relays and State Divisional Championship
  • Won12 Northeastern Conference Championships - Boys/Girls XC/Track
  • Named to the Lynn Item 25th Anniversary Track/XC All Stars - Girls Coach
  • Coached 10 Boston Globe All Scholastics
  • Dual meet record of 180-45-1
  • Inducted into the Swampscott HS Hall of Fame
  • Inducted into the Lynn English HS Hall of Fame
  • Inducted into the MSTCA Track Coaches Hall of Fame
  • Inducted into the Running Retailers Hall of Fame

Running Career - Greater Boston Track Club


  • Member of 15 New England and 2 National Championship GBTC teams, 
  • Six Top 10 finishes in the New England XC Club Championships.
  • Won 3 Individual titles in the New England Track Championships in the Mile, Steeplechase and 3-Mile.
  • NE AAU Championship Runner up to Mark Belger (3:57) in the first sub 4:00 Mile ever run in New England in a PR (4:05).
  • Set 3 still standing records in Boston College Track Events -

  • Christmas Invitational 2-Mile (8:52),
  • BC Relays Steeplechase (8:54)
  • BC Twilight Series Meets 1500 (3:47).
  • National Sub Masters Mile Champion in 1982
  • 2 Mile Record Holder (8:46) at Coast Guard Relays
  • Great Northern Run Marathon Champion in Scarborough, UK in a course record 2:19:34 leading a GBTC team victory taking 5 of the top 6 places.
  • 1980 Olympic Trials participant in the Marathon.



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Jessica Nelson: Speed Project Co-Head Coach


Coaching Career:


  • Coaching Career - Burlington High School
  • Assistant Coach from 2014-2015
  • Head Coach 2016-present
  • K-12 School Counselor
  • EMASS Girls Indoor Track Coach of the Year 2022
  • Boston Globe All Scholastic Coach 2022
  • D3 Relay Champions 2022
  • D3 MIAA State Meet Champions 2022
  • Middlesex League 12 Champions 2022


Collegiate Running Career - University of Maine, Orono:


  • New England Champion (D1) in Heptathlon 2014
  • PRs: ○ Pentathlon 3457
  •  ○ Heptathlon 4809


High School Running Career: Burlington High School 2006-2010


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Nick Villani: Speed Project Co-Head Coach



Coaching Career

  •  Greater Lowell Technical High School Sprinting Coach 2023-Present

  •  Biology Teacher

  •  Saint Paul Diocesan Assistant Track and XC Coach 2018-2021

  •  Girls and Boys CAC League Meet Indoor Champions 2024

  •  Girls CAC League Meet Outdoor Champions 2024


Running Career - Bedford High School (NH)

  •  Indoor and Outdoor Track Captain 2014

  •  Top 8 finish in 2013 NH Indoor D1 Championships - 55 m dash

  •  1st place 2013 NH Outdoor Meet of Champions - 4x100 m relay


MVS AFFILIATIONS

Road Runners Club of America USATF - New England Mill Cities Relay