Justyce Pollitt is the sprints and jumps coach for Haverford College women’s track & field and serves as the College’s Assistant Fitness Center Director and Strength & Conditioning Coach.
Since he joined Haverford in September 2021, the Fords have won Centennial Conference titles in the indoor and outdoor 400 meters and set school records in both the outdoor 4x100-meter relay and the indoor 4x400-meter relay.
Olivia D’Aulerio ’26 earned Centennial Conference Outdoor Rookie of the Year honors in 2023 and went on to win the indoor 400-meter title in 2024 and the outdoor title in 2025. She medaled in the outdoor 400 at all four Centennial championship meets, adding bronze in 2023, 2024 and 2026. D’Aulerio also set Haverford’s indoor 300-meter record of 41.72 seconds and earned USTFCCCA All-Metro Region honors in the 400 both indoors and outdoors.
Kayla Robinson ’23 qualified for the 2023 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships in two events, placing 19th in the long jump and 17th in the triple jump. That spring, Robinson teamed with Olivia D’Aulerio ’26, Jahsaiah Moses ’23 and Ally Landau ’24 to earn bronze in the 4x100-meter relay at the Centennial Conference outdoor championships, setting a school record of 48.57 seconds. Moses had earned second-team All-Centennial honors in the 100 meters in 2022.
In 2026, Lorelei Middleton ’29 ran 57.63 to set Haverford’s indoor 400-meter record in her first season, then earned silver at the Centennial indoor championships in 58.92. Middleton, Devyn Telleen ’29, Anastasia Jaycobs ’27 and D’Aulerio also set the indoor 4x400 school record of 4:00.81. The same four runners closed the conference meet with a bronze medal in 4:01.36.
Beyond Haverford, Pollitt has served as a strength coach for American javelin thrower Curtis Thompson, a two-time Olympian who competed in Tokyo and Paris. Thompson won gold at the 2023 Pan American Games and bronze at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. In July 2026, he threw 87.59 meters (287 feet, 4 inches) on his final attempt to win his fourth consecutive U.S. outdoor title and sixth overall.
A native of Sicklerville, N.J., Pollitt came to Haverford from Rowan University, his alma mater, where he coordinated strength and conditioning for men’s and women’s track & field, men’s and women’s swimming, and women’s lacrosse. A team captain at Rowan, he earned All-America honors in the indoor long jump in 2015 and received the university’s Joy Solomen Leadership Award in 2017.
Pollitt holds a bachelor’s degree in health and exercise science from Rowan and earned a master’s degree in exercise science from Concordia University, St. Paul, in 2023. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
