Justin Turner, a 2022 captain of the Suffolk men's cross country team, has switched gears and joined Will Feldman's staff as an assistant coach for the 2023 season. 

With Turner on the sidelines in 2023, Suffolk's women's team threepeated as CCC Champions and the men's squad was the league's runner-up for the third time in as many years. Nine Rams -- five women, four men -- ran to All-CCC distinction. Regionally, both teams had their best finishes in program history as the men secured eighth and the women took sixth. A pair of blue-and-gold runners, evenly split between men and women, collected all-region distinction from the USTFCCCA. Tim Barry brought his talents to the national course as third-ever Suffolk student-athlete to earn an at-large bid to NCAAs. 

Academically, both squads picked up USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors and five Rams were recognized for their combined academic excellence from the national organization.  

Turner competed for the Rams from 2019-23 on the Rams' cross country and indoor and outdoor track & field teams, while working towards a bachelors degree in health careers. Throughout his tenure, he was instrumental to the first-ever Commonwealth Coast Conference men's outdoor track & field title in 2021. A pair of Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Indoor Track & Field crowns and the inaugural Frozen8 Title in 2022.

Indivudally his resume includes all-league honors as a member of a conference-champion relay team on multiple occassions, including the GNAC cliniching Medley Relay Team in 2019-20.