Joe Puleo is entering his seventh year as the head men’s and women’s cross-country and track and field coach at Rutgers University-Camden, where his teams have produced five All-Americans and numerous conference and regional honors.

Puleo also is the head running coach for Cadence Cycling and MultiSport Center, a premiere training center in Philadelphia featured by the New York Times, Outside, Men's Journal, Men's Health, Shape, GQ, and Triathlete Magazine. In this capacity he is responsible for coaching the United States Marine Corps global running program.

Highlights of his 19 years of coaching experience include multiple high school state champions in track and field, NCAA Division III All-Americans in the 100-meter dash, 800m (indoor and outdoor) and cross-country, male and female winners at the prestigious Penn Relays (20K) and NYRRC Marathon Tune-up, and an Olympic Trials qualifier in the marathon.

Puleo, who started at Rutgers-Camden as the head cross country coach for the 2003 season, produced his first collegiate All-American when Tameka Jackson captured back-to-back outdoor track honors in the 100-meter dash in both 2004 and 2005. Jackson also was named the Most Outstanding Female Track Athlete at the 2005 New Jersey Athletic Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championship, when Puleo earned NJAC Women’s Co-Coach of the Year for the Lady Raptors’ third-place finish. He added the NJAC Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year honor in both 2006 and 2007.

Under Puleo’s guidance, Rutgers-Camden started an indoor track program during the winter of 2005-06. A year later, Mike Fox was named the NJAC Most Outstanding Male Athlete at the conference’s indoor championship meet. Fox collected All-American honors at 800 meters during the 2008 outdoor track season, sparking a string of three consecutive seasons in which the Raptors produced All-Americans. Travis Stewart was a cross country All-American in 2008 and Frank Iwanicki capped the string during the 2008-09 indoor season by earning All-America honors at 800 meters.

Iwanicki also was named the NJAC’s Co-Outstanding Male Track Athlete at the 2008-09 indoor conference meet and added outdoor track honors in 2009 as the NJAC Most Outstanding Male Athlete overall.

Puleo’s Rutgers-Camden teams have produced numerous academic honors, capped by Iwanicki earning Academic All-America Third Team recognition in 2009. During Puleo’s tenure, the Scarlet Raptors also have earned three individual and two team all-academic honors from the USTFCCCA.

Puleo also has coached three CISM (Conseil International du Sport Militaire) World Championship teams for the United States Armed Forces, two marathon teams and a cross-country team, coaching the women to victory in 2008 at the Italian Marathon memorial Enzo Ferrari, and at the Belgrade Marathon in Serbia in April, 2009.

A former member of the New Balance International Advisory Committee for the running specialty trade, Puleo is also the founder of a top retail running store, the Haddonfield Running Company, and currently operates the Philadelphia Running Company, an event production and coaching business. 

Puleo has been a guest lecturer at Temple University's School of Podiatry, served as a board member on USATF's Mid-Atlantic chapter as a long distance running advisor, and is the creator of the "Run With Olympians" events. 

Formerly a nationally ranked age-group triathlete, Puleo has competed in over 100 multi-sport events and over 300 cross- country, track, and road races in the past 24 years.

Puleo lives in Phoenixville and Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania with his wife, Lyndi, and their three children.