Ed Moran is in his seventh season on the William and Mary staff, and third as a volunteer after four years as a full-time assistant. A four-time All-American for the College, Moran has continued his career as a professional runner with seven appearances on the U.S. National Team, achieving the Olympic “A” qualifying standard at 5,000m and 10,000m in 2007 and winning the 5,000m gold medal at the 2007 Pan-American Games. In 2009-10, Moran was named by the Colonial Athletic Association to its 25th Anniversary Teams in both cross country and track and field.
A professionally-sponsored runner with Nike, Moran raced unsponsored at the 2005 USAT&F Track and Field Championships shortly after earning his fourth All-America nod. He boasted an impressive debut, running well below his previous personal record in the 5,000m (13:39.70, second-best in school history, set a scant month-and-a-half earlier) to finish in 13:25.87. This time placed him only 49 hundredths of a second shy of the school record, running as the fastest amateur in the field of 24 runners. In 2007, he won the gold medal at the Pan-American Games with a meet-record time of 13:25.60, and in 2008, finished fourth at the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 10,000m run.
The summer of 2010 marked an acceleration of Moran's career on the national stage, as he established himself as one of the nation's top 10,000m talents twice in the space of two weeks. At the USAT&F Outdoor Championships, Moran led for much of the race before finishing second, his highest-ever finish at a national meet at the time. Less than two weeks later, Moran topped that in Atlanta when he won the national 10K road championships. It was the first national title for a W&M track-man since 1974, when Reggie Clark won the NCAA 880y indoors. Moran would go on to set a career-best time of 5,000m in Europe later that summer, 13:20.25. In the fall, Moran made his third appearance at the Chiba Ekiden Relay for Team USA, and in January was selected to represent the United States at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country Challenge.
In his six-year collegiate career, Moran racked up three all-conference and All-Southeast honors (never finishing worse than third), and was twice conference champion and Athlete of the Year in cross country. On the track, he earned multiple all-conference nods, was named the 2003 CAA Male Athlete of the Year and was the 2005 IC4A and CAA champion in the 5,000m. He earned dual degrees in government and finance in 2003 and a Masters in Public Policy from the College in 2005, and added an MBA from W&M's business school in May of 2011.
