Judy Krouse 1760 enters her 32nd year of coaching the girls cross country team. During her tenure, the team has won the Independent School state championship six times (1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2016, 2017) and the Inter-Ac League championship 12 times since girls cross country was accepted as an official league sport in 1991.

In 2018, the team went 5-2 and placed third at the Inter-Ac League Championship.

Krouse's team won the Inter-Ac and the Independent School state championship in 2017 while earning a 7-1 record. She also had five athletes chosen as All-Inter-Ac performers.

Her first state championship team, in 1997, featured two GA runners (Lindsey Sukay '98 and Liz Grau '99) finishing first and second in that meet, respectively, and the team finished the season undefeated (16-0). That team was inducted into the Germantown Academy Athletic Hall of Fame.

Coach Krouse was a founding board member and is past president of the PAISSA, (formerly the PISCCCA) and was named Girls Team Coach of the Year in 2001, 2002, 2012, 2013, and 2016 by that group.

She formerly was co-head coach of the girls track and field team and helped to lead that group to three Inter-Ac League championships. She is a USATF Level One and Level Two certified coach.

Coach Krouse also has earned her USATF Cross Country Specialists Certification. Coach Krouse teaches in the Upper School History Department and is faculty advisor to the Honor Council.

(Updated: 7/31/19)

Abby Perkiss has been working with the cross country team in a volunteer capacity since 2010 and joined the coaching staff officially in 2015.

Perkiss has run several marathons and, since 2008, she has been a competitive adventure racer at the regional, national, and international level. With her teammates, she has earned several top 10 finishes at the U.S. Adventure Racing Association National Championship. She has also competed in multi-day events in New England, Alaska, Costa Rica, Scotland, and Ireland. Away from racing, Perkiss serves as an assistant professor of history at Kean University in New Jersey.