Furman University

ROBERTS BY THE NUMBERS AT Furman

• 13 NCAA Track Outdoor All-Americans
• 6 NCAA Track Indoor All-Americans
• 40 NCAA East Preliminary Qualifiers
• 91 SoCon Track Champions
• 10 Southern Conference Meet Records  
• 10 NCAA Cross Country All-Americans 
• 8 NCAA Cross Country Team Appearances
• 33 NCAA All-Southeast Region Honors 
• 11 Individual SoCon Cross Country Champions 
• 16 SoCon Cross Country Team Titles
• 17 Track & Field School Records

Logan Roberts, now in his eighth 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 16 Southern Conference Championships, in addition to seeing five cross country All-America performances in the last five seasons by Dylan Schubert (2022, 2023, 2024) and Bethany Graham (2021, 2022). The men's and women's programs now hold ten SoCon meet records across the indoor and outdoor seasons since Roberts’ arrival in 2018. The men earned an All-America performance across all three seasons in 2024, capped off with an Olympic Trials appearance by Carson Williams.

Over his last three seasons at Furman, Roberts has worked with the men’s program under Robert Gary to help re-write the Paladin record book in every event from the 800m to 10,000m in the outdoor season and 800m to 5,000m indoors, including the Distance Medley Relay. 

The 2024-2025 year was one of the most historic on record for Furman as the Paladins secured a team berth at the 2024 NCAA Cross Country Championships, where Dylan Schubert logged a career-defining run to place third and lead Furman to a 17th-place finish.  Schubert would go on to post a 5,000m school record (13:17.89) to qualify for the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships. Carson Williams advanced to his third career NCAA Outdoor Championships in the Steeplechase accompanied by Schubert (10,000m). Williams finished third overall with a school record (8:19.71) and NCAA all-time top-10 performance. Schubert finished with his first career first team All-America citation (7th) and would go on to be honored as the 24-25 SoCon Male Athlete of the Year.

Roberts led Matthew Smith to a stellar senior campaign with an outdoor school record in the 800m (1:46.75) to accompany both indoor and outdoor individual SoCon titles. Smith finished his career as SoCon and Furman record holder in the indoor and outdoor 800m while earning three individual titles in the event. 

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. Williams represented Furman with a 16th-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 at NCAA Outdoor). 

Schubert stamped his mark on a short list of Furman cross country All-Americans, earning his first citation in 2022 with an 11th-place finish at the 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-American 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. 

During Roberts’ first four years in Greenville, he assisted women’s head 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 SoCon Outdoor Track Championship record in the 800m (2:04.18) at the 2021 outdoor meet. In 2022, she set the Furman and SoCon Indoor Track Championship record in the 800m. Marvin graduated from Furman as a seven time Southern Conference Champion in the event. Roberts led Marvin to an NCAA Outdoor Championship appearance in the 1500m in spring of 2022 to earn second team All-America honors. 

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-American.  

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 cross country meet, including a remarkable 9th 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 cross country and track assistant coach for three years following a two-year stint as a 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 great team success during Roberts’ time at UNC, winning 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 the highest program finish for the men since 1985.

In 2013, Roberts earned a master’s degree in sport administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

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.

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.