CAMDEN--Mark Drummond, a long-time scholastic cross country and track coach, joins the Rutgers-Camden program as the Scarlet Raptors’ cross country, indoor track and outdoor track head coach this year.

A 1993 graduate of West Deptford High School where he was a member of the first cross country team in program history to qualify for the state championship meet, Drummond has been coaching on the high school level since 2003, most recently at his alma mater. He also has coached at Haddon Heights High School and Rancocas Valley High School.

Drummond rebuilt the Haddon Heights Girls’ Cross Country program in 2003 and within two years led the Garnets to a Colonial Conference title. He also started the first full Girls’ Winter Track team at Haddon Heights High School and led them to two state titles within the first three years: one relay title and one team championship.

Drummond, who also has coached spring track and served as an assistant swimming coach, helped rebuild the West Deptford Boys’ Cross Country program over the past seven years. He helped the team qualify for the state championship meet three times during that span, helping him play a role on four of the seven teams in school history to reach the state meet – once as an athlete and three times as a coach.

Drummond has coached numerous individual state champions and place winners in track and cross country. He also has served as a camp counselor at the Runningworks Cross Country Camp and as Vice-President of the Gloucester County Running Club youth program.

A USATF Level 1 Certified Coach, Drummond will be reunited with his former scholastic stars Matt Curtis and Leo Impagliazzo at Rutgers-Camden. He also has coached athletes who have gone on to compete in track and cross country at New Jersey Conference rivals Richard Stockton College and Rowan University, as well as LaSalle, North Carolina-Wilmington, Elon, Fairleigh Dickinson, Towson and East Carolina.

Drummond graduated from Rowan University in 1997 with a Bachelor’s degree in Small Business Management and received his Master’s in Educational Leadership from Delaware Valley College in 2012. He has been teaching at West Deptford High School since 2006 as a Business Education teacher and serves the school as the Marketing Education Coordinator.