Best joined the Holy Family University track & field program as an assistant coach in 2019, specifically working with sprinters, jumpers and hurdlers.
She was named the 2023 USTFCCCA Indoor Track & Field East Region Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year in 2023 after her hurdlers and jumpers accumulated 84 of the team’s 143 points as HFU captured their first-ever East Coast Conference (ECC) Championship.
The women have also won the program’s first two ECC Indoor Track & Field championships in 2022 and 2023, while both the women (second) and men (third) have set new program records for finishes at the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Outdoor Championship in back-to-back years.
Two Tigers have qualified for the NCAA Championships during Best’s tenure, with Nishorn Pierre earning All-America Honors in the high jump at the 2022 outdoors and 2023 indoors, placing second in the former. Kenisha Greenwood then qualified for the 2023 outdoor championships in the 400 meter hurdles.
Best joined HFU from William Allen High School, where as the head cross country coach and assistant track & field coach she was in charge in of developing training plans and supervising practices.
After implementing an official PIAA indoor track program, she coached league champions in the 100m hurdles, 400m and 4x400m, a 4x400m district champion, and state qualifiers in the 200m, 300m hurdles , 400m and 4x400m. She coached her team to the highest state placing in program history and had over 30 student-athletes receive scholarships at the collegiate level.
Best was previously the head cross country coach and assistant track & field coach at Freedom High School, where she coached a league and district runner-up and state qualifier in the 300m hurdles.
She began her collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Essex Country Community College, where she won two NJCAA cross country and track & field championships.
Best is USATF Level 2 certified. She has been a part of the Mt. Airy Track Club since 1997, coaching sprinters, jumpers and hurdlers to help young athletes between the ages of 5-18 develop fundamental skills of track & field to compete in the AAU Championships Circuit.
She also spent 26 years at Colgate Women’s Games, where she worked with the staff to officiate amateur track meets and helped organize and time races.
