Justin McQuality enters his eighth year as the Assistant Men's and Women's Track & Field Coach at the University of Chicago in the 2025-26 academic year.
In 2022, McQuality was selected as the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Indoor Assistant Coach of the Year. Isabel Maletich's standout senior campaign saw her tied the indoor national triple jump record for NCAA Division III. She also put up the No. 7 mark on the all-time long jump list and the No. 10 mark on the all-time outdoor triple jump list. Maletich went on to pick up a pair of top three finishes at the NCAA Division III Championships - runner-up in the indoor long jump and third in the outdoor long jump. Becca Stewart submitted an All-American performance in the indoor triple jump.
For the first time in program history, the UChicago women qualified athletes in every sprint event at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships - Ren Brown in the 60-meter hurdles, Gabri Meschino in the 60 meters and 200 meters, and Meg Fitzpatrick in the 400 meters and the 4x400-meter relay. Brown set new first-year and overall school records in the 60-meter hurdles and 100-meter hurdles. She also broke the indoor 60-meter hurdles UAA Championship record and the school's 400-meter hurdles first-year record. Meschino tied the 60 meters school record and broke the indoor 200 meters school record.
On the men's side, pole vaulter Brandon Shin earned UAA Outdoor Rookie of the Year, won the UAA title and qualifies for the outdoor NCAA Division III Championships. Wilson Hansen won the UAA title in the 200 meters and tied the school record. The men’s 4x400-meter relay claimed the indoor UAA title as well. Andrew Ray broke the school's rookie records in the 60-meter hurdles, 110-meter hurdles, indoor 400 meters and the 400-meter hurdles. Myles Xavier set a new first-year record in the 60 meters.
The 2021 outdoor track & field season was highlighted by a pair of NCAA national championship victories by Isabel Maletich, who swept the outdoor long jump and outdoor triple jump. Rachel TerHaar was the NCAA national runner-up in the outdoor pole vault, and Laura Darcey earned All-American status in the outdoor high jump (eighth place). Maletich was named the 2021 USTFCCCA National Women's Field Athlete of the Year.
In the 2020 indoor track & field season, McQuality was named the NCAA Division III National Women's Assistant Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). He was also the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year. McQuality's cohort of jumpers submitted historic seasons in multiple events. Laura Darcey submitted the fourth-best pentathlon score in the history of NCAA Division III (3,794 points). Isabel Maletich posted the fifth-best triple jump in NCAA Division III history at 12.58 meters. Darcey was named the 2020 USTFCCCA National Women's Field Athlete of the Year, while Maletich captured USTFCCCA Midwest Region Women's Field Athlete of the Year honors.
In his first season, Isabel Maletich won the 2019 national title in the women's indoor long jump and took national runner-up in the outdoor long jump. Additionally, the UChicago field athletes broke a combined nine school records in 2019. The new record holders included Maletich in the triple jump (indoor/outdoor) and long jump (indoor/outdoor); Laura Darcey in the outdoor high jump and outdoor heptathlon; Alexandra Thompson in the indoor high jump; and Isabel Garon in the pole vault (indoor/outdoor). The group qualified for NCAAs a total of nine times and hauled in seven All-American awards.
McQuality arrived on campus after a successful tenure at The College at Brockport. He spent three years as an assistant track & field coach specializing in jumps, multi-events and hurdles. In 2018, McQuality's horizontal jumps groups finished among the top 16 in the Division III event squad rankings during both the indoor and outdoor seasons, with the women's and men's triple jump groups finishing as high as third and fourth last indoor season.
Prior to Brockport, McQuality coached at Fredonia State University for five years. His oversight groups included jumps, sprints, hurdles, javelin and multis. McQuality implemented training and strength programs for the teams while also serving as recruiting coordinator.
McQuality began his coaching career with a one-year stint at Illinois College with the horizontal jumps and multis. In recent years, he was an instructor at the Princeton University and Stanford University Track & Field Camps.
As a collegiate student-athlete, McQuality was a three-year captain of the track & field team at North Central College. He secured All-American honors in the indoor triple jump, as well as qualified for the national meet in the outdoor long jump during his career
McQuality received his bachelor's degree in exercise science and psychology from North Central. He went on to earn his master's degree in exercise science – with a concentration in human performance & injury prevention – from California University of Pennsylvania.
