Judy Pendergast - Track & Field Coach - University of Tennessee Athletics

Judy Pendergast

Title:
Assistant Coach (Distance)
Email:
jpende12@utk.edu

Judy Pendergast begins her first season coaching on Rocky Top in 2023-24 after spending a year on the coaching staff at Harvard.

While at Harvard, Pendergast assisted in coaching the Men’s and Women’s middle distance and distance runners to one of their best years in school history. She assisted in the development of two cross-country All-Americans, ten total individual conference champions, three indoor NCAA championship qualifiers and twelve outdoor NCAA first-round qualifiers.

Pendergast helped foster the development of Maia Ramsden in her breakout 2023 season as she finished 11th at the NCAA cross country championships, placed fifth in the NCAA indoor mile and capped it off with an NCAA title in the 1,500 meter run.

Pendergast graduated from Harvard College in 2022 with a degree in Psychology. She was captain of the Harvard Cross Country team in 2021, where she helped lead the team to an Ivy League conference title, an NCAA Northeast Region first place finish and the women’s program’s best NCAA championship finish in modern history.

In her Harvard career, she was a conference champion in the indoor 5,000 meters, an NCAA Indoor Finalist for the 5,000 meters, a three-time NCAA Cross Country Championships participant with the team and the former Harvard Outdoor 5,000 meter record holder with a time of 15:58.54.