DeSales University Athletics

     Gordon Hornig enters his ninth year as both the head women's cross-country and women's track and field coach.

     Over the last three seasons, Hornig has led the cross-country program to its top two finishes at the MAC Championships with a second place finish in 2003 and a third place finish in 2002. The Bulldogs have also finished among the top 10 in the Mid-East Region twice in the last three years including a seventh place finish in 2003 and an eighth place finish in 2002.

     Additionally, Hornig helped the most celebrated runner in DSU history, Gina Lucrezi, graduate having earned All-American honors 10 times in her career, become the first-ever DeSales University National Champion when she won the 1,500-meter race at the 2004 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships, be named DSU's Female Athlete of the Year all four years and earn Academic All-American honors as a senior.

     Hornig was an assistant men’s cross country and track & field coach in 1992-93 and from 1994-96 under head coach Al Weiner. Hornig graduated from DeSales in 1992 with a degree in criminal justice and received his master’s degree in social work from Marywood in 1998.

     He also coached boy's high school cross-country and track at Archbishop Wood HS from 1988-90 and 1992. Wood won Philadelphia Catholic League boy's cross country championships in 1988 & ’89 and was nationally ranked in 1989. As a runner at DSU, Hornig was team captain and Most Valuable Runner in 1991 as well as earning Academic All-League honors.

     Hornig, who works full-time as a Psychotherapist and also as an adjunct professor at DeSales in the criminal justice department, resides in Center Valley, PA with his wife Robie and daughter Hannah.