Judy Arlington enters her ninth season with the Daemen cross country/track and field program in 2024-25.
Since coming to Daemen in 2016, Arlington has played a large role in the development of Daemen's long and middle distance runners. She helped Mackenzie Donahue qualify for the indoor and outdoor track and field national championship meets during the 2016-17 season, and has coached several All-East Coast Conference performers in both cross country and track and field. She has also been a driving force behind the implementation of the Daemen Summer Track Series.
Prior to her arrival at Daemen, Arlington served as the head men's and women's cross country coach at Medaille College, a post she held from 2011-15. While there, Arlington helped establish the Mavericks as one of the most consistent programs within the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference of NCAA Division III. She was named the AMCC Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year following the 2011 season.
During her own collegiate years, Arlington was a three-sport athlete at the State University of New York at Cortland, competing in cross country, track and field and swimming. Arlington was a member of two NCAA Division III national championship-winning cross country teams and set school records at both the 5K and 10k distances in her four years competing for the Red Dragons. She wound up earning 10 different All-America distinctions between cross country, and indoor and outdoor track and field. Arlington earned both her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from SUNY Cortland.
After college, Arlington continued to excel as an athlete. In 2001, she was named the Overall Female Runner of the Year by The Buffalo News and has been an age group champion in that series on several occasions.
She has also been a volunteer coach with Lockport High School's cross country and track teams, coached the Y-10 clinic, and has developed a 14-week program to prepare novice runners to compete in a 10-mile race. She is the current record holder in the Lockport Y-10 race which takes place every February. Arlington is also a personal trainer for runners aspiring to compete at distance levels ranging from 5K all the way up to marathons.
Arlington's lifelong achievements as an athlete, coach and overall running enthusiast led to her induction to the Western New York Running Hall of Fame in 2018.
In addition to her coaching duties at Daemen, Arlington works as the Transition Coordinator for the Lockport City School District. She resides in Lockport with her husband, David, and the couple's three children, Margaret, Hannah and David.
