WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Penn College Athletics Director Scott Kennell has announced Adrienne Wydra-Curry as the next head coach of the Wildcats' Cross Country programs. Wydra-Curry currently is an assistant coach for the Penn College women's basketball team and helped the Wildcats to one of the best seasons in program history. 

"We are excited to welcome Coach Wydra to the Penn College Cross Country program. Coach Wydra brings a proven record of leadership and a deep understanding of what it takes to build a successful program. We are excited for the future of Wildcat Cross Country under her guidance." Kennell said.

No stranger to PCT Athletics and the Williamsport community, Wydra-Curry graduated from Lycoming College with a B.A. in History in 2002 where she was a multi-sport athlete on the women's basketball, softball and track and field teams. She earned multiple all-conference honors, an NCAA Division III Championship appearance and an induction into the Lycoming Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019. 

After graduation, Wydra-Curry began her coaching career with the Warriors as the Head Cross Country Coach for eight seasons (2002-2009), the leader of the Warriors' track and field program from 2002-04, and a five-year stint as the assistant women's basketball coach from 2004-09.

Alongside Wydra-Curry's professional teaching career, she had coaching stops as the assistant women's basketball coach at Cabrini College (2009-10), the head basketball and soccer coach at Wicominco Day School in Salisbury, Maryland (2017-18) and the head girls basketball coach at Lake Highlands Middle School in Lakeland, Florida from 2019-20 before returning to the Williamsport area in 2022 for her second stints as the assistant women's basketball coach for the Warriors (2022-24) and the Wildcats (2024-present). Wydra-Curry helped the Wildcats to a program-best 20-6 record and a trip to the United East Semifinals this past season. 

"I am excited for the opportunity to expand my coaching duties at Penn College to the Cross Country programs. I plan to bring a positive, high-energy, student-athlete approach to the programs by creating an inclusive environment where our runners can learn and mature. I am eager to work together with the student-athletes to achieve our goals." Wyrda-Curry said.

Wydra-Curry will remain on the women's basketball staff and is excited to also be leading the Penn College Cross Country programs featuring the men's team that has finished top-3 in the in the United East in each of the past four seasons and earned two team championships in 2023 and 2024, while the women placed sixth, fourth and fifth at the conference meet in the past three seasons.