Dana Freeman Named Old Dominion Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year The 12th-year mentor led the Generals to their first indoor conference championship in 16 years.
Dana Freeman, head women’s track & field coachDana Freeman, head women’s track & field coach at Washington and Lee University, was named the 2025 Old Dominion Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year after leading the Generals to the conference title.
Freeman’s squad racked up 197.75 team points to out-pace Bridgewater’s 128 points and seize the program’s first indoor team championship since the 2009 campaign. The Generals won seven of the 16 events and set six new school records during the conference championship event.
W&L went on to qualify a program-record four athletes for the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championship, with Cassie Carr ’27L (3,000 meters), Camille Gillum ’26 (High Jump) and Olivia Warr ’27 (Mile) all collecting Second Team All-America accolades.
Over her career at W&L, Freeman has coached her athletes to 60 individual conference championship titles, while 13 have qualified for the NCAA Division III Championship. Four have gone on to earn All-America status based on their finishes at the national championship meet.
Freeman joined the W&L faculty in 2013 after three years as an assistant track & field coach and director of student-athlete support services at Ashland University. She has also assisted the track & field programs at Roanoke College, the College of Wooster, Radford University and Campbell University. Freeman holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science with a minor in sport management from Kent State University.
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