Dave Stewart

Assistant Coach

CoEd Middle School Track And Field

David Stewart

Assistant Coach, Boys Varsity Cross Country

Assistant Coach, GIrls Varsity Winter Track and Field

Assistant Coach, Middle School Track and Field

Dave Stewart has served as a volunteer assistant with the HMHS cross country and track programs since 2015, and as Assistant Cross Country Coach under Nick Baker since 2017.He is USATF certified as a Level 1 track coach and  as a cross country specialist, as well as Accredited as an interscholastic coach by the NFHS. He has also coached with  both the boys and girls Winter Track teams, and with the HMS Middle School track team. 

He previously served for three years as the Head Cross Country and Assistant Track Coach at Johns Hopkins University and as a volunteer assistant at Ferris High School in Jersey City. He is a graduate of Cherry Hill East, where was named Most Valuable Runner, and of Johns Hopkins, where he was a Captain of the Cross Country team, an individual qualifier for Division III Nationals and Middle Atlantic Conference medalist in the 1500.

He has continued to compete in open and masters competition. As a masters competitor he has won age group awards in races such as the Philadelphia Marathon, Broad Street 10-Miler, Bridge Run and the MAUSATF 1500. He has also served as an NJSIAA track official, as President of the South Jersey Athletic Club, as race director of the Pennypacker Park Open cross country meet and as a coach with the SJTFC youth track team.

All three of his children, Veronica, Miranda and Matt,  attended HMHS and competed for either Nick or Maureen Baker. Matt, Class of 2014,  was a varsity member of the 2013 State Championship  team and a State qualifier in the 3200. He went on to run at RPI, where he was a varsity member of two National Championship qualifying teams. Veronica has gone on to complete three marathons while also gaining a PhD in chemistry from Johns Hopkins. Miranda is completing her Masters in Marine Biology at UC Dublin and still participates in running and open water swimming.