ROBERTS BY THE NUMBERS
- 22 Southern Conference Team Titles
- 27 NCAA Track All-Americans
- 10 NCAA Cross Country All-Americans
- 44 NCAA All-Southeast Region Honors
- 67 NCAA First Round Track Qualifiers
- 8 Top-25 NCAA Cross Country Team Finishes
- 10 Southern Conference Track Records
Logan Roberts, now in his seventh year at Furman, has served in key roles for both the men’s and women’s programs since the start of his tenure in Greenville. In cross country he has assisted on twelve SoCon championships in addition to seeing four Cross Country All-American performances in the last three seasons by Dylan Schubert (2022, 2023) and Bethany Graham (2021, 2022). The men's and women's programs now hold ten Southern Conference meet records across the indoor and outdoor seasons since Roberts’ arrival in 2018. The men earned an All-American performance across all three seasons in 2024, capped off with an Olympic Trials appearance by Carson Williams.
In the last two years on this staff, Roberts has worked with the men’s program under Robert Gary to help re-write the Furman record book in every event from the 1500m to 10,000m in the outdoor season and 800m to 5,000m during indoors, including the Distance Medley Relay.
In 2024, Carson Williams earned All-America honors in the indoor mile after setting a school record of 3:55.46. He redshirted the outdoor campaign to train for the 2024 US Olympic Trials where he qualified in the 3,000m steeplechase. He broke the Furman school record in the process, and represented Furman with a sixteenth-place finish in his first career appearance at the meet.
The 2024 track season also saw great success from Dylan Schubert as he set both indoor and outdoor program records in 5,000m on his way to winning the NCAA First Round Championship to secure a berth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (his first appearance).
Schubert stamped his mark on a short list of Furman cross country All-Americans earning his first citation in 2022 with an eleventh place finish at NCAA Cross Country Championships. In 2023, Schubert would go on to win the NCAA Southeast Region individual title en route to a second consecutive All-America performance at the NCAA Championships in Charlottesville, Va. Over those two seasons, he secured both conference individual titles.
Williams notched his first All-America honor in 2022 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 3,000m steeplechase (16th place). He would go on to earn his second All-America honor in 2023 while reaching the finals of the NCAA Championships, placing eleventh. In the spring of 2022, Roberts led Matthew Smith to an outstanding freshman campaign that included a Southern Conference Outdoor Championship in the 800m while breaking a meet record that stood for over forty years. Smith would go on to set the Furman 800m indoor school record in 2023.
During the 2021-22 season, Furman’s Cameron Ponder was honored as the Southern Conference Male Athlete of the Year, becoming the first cross country/track in field athlete to earn the distinction in the history of the league. He claimed an All-America citation in the 3,000m for indoor track for the second-straight season after finishing 11th with a time of 8:03.99 at the NCAA Championships, where the top eight finishers were separated by less than a second. Ponder, who holds four career sub-4:00 mile marks, was named the 2021 SoCon Cross Country Men’s Runner of the Year, earned All-Southeast Region accolades, and went on to compete at the NCAA Cross Country Championships.
During Roberts’ first four years in Greenville, he assisted head women’s coach Rita Gary in leading the women’s program to unprecedented success both in cross country and track.
From 2021 to 2023, Roberts coached middle distance standout Megan Marvin to re-write the Furman and Southern Conference record books at the half mile distance. Marvin set the Furman and Outdoor SoCon Championship record in the 800m at the 2021 Outdoor Championships. That title would be the first of four outdoor conference titles in the event. In 2022, Marvin would go on to set the Furman and SoCon Indoor Championship record in the 800m, her second of four consecutive titles.
Roberts coached Marvin to an NCAA Outdoor Championship appearance in the 1500m in spring of 2022 to earn second team All-American honors. She catapulted that momentum into a phenomenal junior season to break her own indoor school record in the 800m.
Bethany Graham was honored as the 2021 SoCon Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Year after winning the individual title and leading the Paladins to their ninth-straight league title. She placed fifth at the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship to qualify as an individual for the NCAA Championships, where she finished 40th and was honored as an All-America.
In the spring of 2021, Furman’s Gabbi Jennings won the 3,000m Steeplechase at the NCAA East Preliminaries, becoming just the second Paladin to win an event at the preliminaries. She went on to finish seventh in the event at the NCAA Championships with a program-record time of 9:38.24. A three-time All-American in the Steeplechase, Jennings established herself as one of the top performers in Furman cross country/track and field history after earning All-America accolades in cross country, indoor, and outdoor track during her Paladin career. For her efforts, Jennings was honored as the 2020-21 SoCon Female Athlete of the Year.
Upon Roberts arrival in 2018, his influence was immediately felt in the middle distance group leading Emma Kuntz to the 800m school record on her way to the NCAA Outdoor Quarterfinals in 2019.
He assisted on the women’s second and third automatic berths at the NCAA meet, including a remarkable ninth-place team finish at the 2019 NCAA Cross Country Championships, guiding Savannah Carnahan (13th) and Gabbi Jennings (20th) to All-America finishes.
Prior to Furman, Roberts served as the University of North Carolina men’s and women’s assistant coach of cross country and track for three years following a two-year stint as volunteer assistant coach. From 2013 to 2018 while in Chapel Hill, Roberts coached 21 All-ACC performances in Cross Country and 30 All-ACC performances on the track. He assisted seventeen athletes to NCAA All-Southeast Region cross country honors and one NCAA All-America honor. On the oval, he saw 31 athletes qualify for the NCAA East Preliminary Championships and ten of those runners go on to earn All-America honors at the NCAA Track & Field Championships.
The Tar Heels experienced team success during Roberts’ time at UNC taking the 2014 ACC Women’s Cross Country Championship and qualifying for the NCAA Cross Country Championships three times including a men’s team finish of 12th place in 2014. At the time it was the highest program finish for the men since 1985.
A 2011 graduate of Baylor with a bachelor's degree in health science studies and pre-physical therapy, Roberts was a letter winner on the Bears' cross country and track and field teams. During his time at Baylor, Roberts served as the Big 12 representative on the NCAA Division I National Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the NCAA Division I Sport Management/Championships cabinet. After earning his degree from Baylor, Roberts received the Dr. Gerald Lage Award, the highest academic honor distributed by the Big 12 Conference.
In 2013, Roberts earned his Masters in Sport Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Roberts is a co-founder of Sir Walter Running, 501 (c)(3) of Raleigh, N.C. The non-profit, which began in 2013, has successfully organized the annual Sir Walter Miler since 2014. In its second year, Sports Illustrated touted the event as the "best glimpse of future growth for American track." In 2018, the event set a record for the most American sub-4 minute mile performances in one race on U.S. soil (13).
A native of Raleigh, N.C., Roberts and his wife (Hannah) have two sons (Ford & Woody).
