The reason

She built the thing she didn’t have.

Beth Alford-Sullivan founded Let’s Go to bring 35 years of leadership practice to the women coming up behind her, through the Summit, consulting and camps.

Beth spent most of her career as the only woman in the room. There was no room to walk into afterward, no group who had already solved the problem she was standing in the middle of, and no shortcut through it.

Let’s Go is that room. The summits, the consulting and the camps all come from the same place — three and a half decades of doing it without a map, turned into something the next group of women can actually use.

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Beth Alford-Sullivan hugs a Tennessee athlete after a race

the record

Today, Beth Alford-Sullivan serves as Director of Track & Field and Cross Country at the University of Connecticut. She is the only woman head coach to earn NCAA team trophies in all three sports. She has eight top-four finishes in all: three in women’s cross country, including a national title; three in men’s indoor track and field; and two in women’s outdoor track and field.

In four seasons, she has led the Huskies to 16 consecutive BIG EAST team championships. That’s part of 25 conference team titles across her career, with the other nine won at Penn State. In 2025–26 she extended the program’s run of indoor and outdoor sweeps to five straight, won a conference-record sixth consecutive men’s outdoor title, and tied the BIG EAST record for consecutive women’s outdoor titles. Her 2026 senior class graduated undefeated in conference competition: four years, every championship.

In 2026 she was named USTFCCCA Northeast Region Women’s Coach of the Year (indoor) and Men’s Head Coach of the Year (outdoor). She and her staff also swept BIG EAST Men’s and Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year honors. That spring she produced UConn’s first First Team All-American since 2016 and led the program to its best NCAA Championship team finish in more than a decade.

8 NCAA top-four team trophies
16 individual NCAA champions
25 conference team titles
300+ All-Americans

She has coached at the NCAA Division I level for 35+ years. She has been involved with U.S. national teams for years, serving as head coach of the U.S. women’s team at the 2013 World Outdoor Championships and the 2011 Pan Am Junior Championships, and on the U.S. Olympic coaching staff at the 2004 Athens Games.

In 2006 she became the first woman to lead a men’s Power 5 track and field program. In 2014 she became the first woman to lead a men’s program in any sport in SEC history. At Penn State she coached four NCAA champions. At Tennessee she led the men to three third-place NCAA team trophies and coached 11 NCAA title winners, including Olympian and 2017 Bowerman Award winner Christian Coleman. She was the 1996 National Coach of the Year after Stanford won the NCAA women’s cross country title.

Beth earned a degree in social work from the University of Minnesota in 1989. She competed there in cross country and track and field. She is married to Jim Sullivan, pole vault coach for UConn’s men’s and women’s teams.

Beth Alford-Sullivan holding an NCAA championship trophy

Building a Championship Pedigree

Learning from the best from the beginning. Beth’s dad, Richard Alford, was a member of the 1960 University of Minnesota Big Ten Conference and College World Series Championship teams. Beth went on to run at the University of Minnesota, captaining the teams her final three years.

Beth never stops learning. She recently traveled to Ireland to watch her friend Katie Taylor’s final fight in front of more than 80,000 fans in Dublin. Katie, an Olympic gold medalist in boxing, has a championship mindset that has taught Beth even more about winning titles off the track.