Erin Dinan Frahm

Erin Dinan completed her 13th season as Ithaca's head women's cross country coach in 2024, and her first as the men's head coach, after serving as an assistant coach for six seasons. Dinan, who continues to serve as an assistant coach for the women’s track & field program, replaced Ithaca College Hall of Fame coach Bill Ware in 2011. In the summer of 2024, Dinan was named the head coach of the men's cross country program.

In 2023 and 2024, IC sent a women's runner to the NCAA Division III Championships - Kyla Eisman in 2023 and Joy Petersen in 2024. The 2022 season was highlighted by the emergence of first-year runner, Jessica Goode, who was a national qualifier and the Liberty League Rookie of the Year.

The Bombers returned to the national stage in 2019, earning its first at-large big to the NCAA Championship since 2002. The Bombers sent seven runners to E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Ky. and ended up placing 26th overall.

In 2019, senior Parley Hannan became the first student-athlete in school history to win a cross country national title as she clocked a time of 20:53.8. Hannan became the 30th student-athlete to win a national title and the 46th overall individual national champion at Ithaca College.

Dinan and her staff also earned Liberty League Staff of the Year after the 2019 season.

Ithaca joined the Liberty League in 2017, and the Bombers continued their dominance within conference races. IC won its 15th straight conference championship as the Bombers won with 45 points. Taryn Cordani was the individual champion, while Sierra Grazia was the runner-up. Ithaca would go on to place second at the NCAA Atlantic Regional to earn a bid to the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. The Bombers finished ninth in the country, and Cordani and Denise Ibarra were named All-Americans.

Dinan's first Empire 8 Coach of the Year came back in 2012 after leading the Bombers to an Empire 8 title, a second-place finish at the state meet and a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Atlantic Region Championships. With its regional finish, Ithaca earned a bid to the NCAA Championships after a two-year hiatus.

The Bombers returned to the NCAA Championships a year later following a sixth-place showing at the regional meet. Dinan coached graduate student Jenn Randall to an All-America finish of 12th - Ithaca’s first All-American in five years. The team, who won the conference championship and was the NYSCTC runner-up, placed 23rd at the national meet.

Ithaca reached the NCAA Championships once again in 2014, and Dinan was named Empire 8 Coach of the Year for the second time after the Bombers won their 12th straight title. All seven of Ithaca's runners placed within the top 15.

The 2015 season brought another E8 title - the 13th straight - and coach of the year accolade to Dinan for the third time. Ithaca finished seventh at regionals and sophomore Taryn Cordani earned a trip to the NCAA Championships, where she became an All-American with a 14th place finish.

In 2016, the Bombers were back on the national stage as a team and placed 11th out of 32 teams in Louisville, Ky. Cordani was once again an All-American with an 11th place performance. Ithaca also won its 14th straight Empire 8 title and place fourth at the NCAA Atlantic Region Championship in Glassboro, N.J.

In track & field, Dinan was named USTFCCCA Atlantic Assistant Coach of the Year in 2019-20. Dinan oversaw the distance runners, and more specifically Parley Hannan, who was ranked No. 1 in Division III in the mile, 3,000 and 5,000. During the 2021 outdoor season, Hannan secured her second and third career national championships as she won the 5,000- and 10,000-meter runs.

As an assistant with the women's cross country staff from 2006-11, Dinan helped lead Ithaca to six consecutive Empire 8 titles, six runner-up finishes at the NYSCTC Championships and six top-10 finishes at the NCAA Atlantic Region Championships.

She joined the Ithaca staff after serving as an assistant coach at Rensselaer in 2005. Prior to arriving at Rensselaer, Dinan was an official at Northern Arizona and an assistant coach at Alfred. She also held an assistant track & field coaching position at Ithaca High School for three seasons.

Dinan, a USATF Level I certified track & field coach, earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Cortland in 2003, where she was a member of the cross country and track & field teams. She was a cross country national qualifier in 1999 and 2002 and served as team captain her junior and senior years. Dinan was also a six-time SUNYAC track & field medalist under current Ithaca women’s track & field head coach Jennifer Potter.