Zach Joachim has been named as the Head Coach of the Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams at MassBay Community College.

Joachim comes to MassBay after coaching for the past three years at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in various roles. He has assisted in coaching several all-state medalists and national qualifiers, including an outdoor state champion over 200 meters in 2021, and a seventh place 4x mile relay team at the indoor national championships in 2019. In Cross Country, Coach Joachim assisted with an MIAA all-state qualifying boys team in 2019. From 2019-21, he oversaw the hurdlers and multi-event athletes during track season, with several qualifying for Eastern Massachusetts Divisional Championships.

“I would like to thank MassBay for this tremendous opportunity,” said Joachim. “I am so excited about building MassBay cross country into a program that can be competitive for years to come. I'm eager to get to work with our student-athletes."  

“Zach is a great fit for us here at MassBay,” commented Director of Athletics Adam Nelson. “He has tremendous knowledge of both the physical and mental aspects of running, and is clearly passionate about working with and developing our student-athletes. We are very lucky to have him become a part of the Buccaneers family.”

Joachim competed in cross country and track & field at Trinity College (CT), where he earned NCAA DIII All-Academic as well as All-New England honors. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and Law.