Kerstin Darsney joined Suffolk Athletics as the first-ever full-time assistant coach when Will Feldman added her to his staff as the Associate Head Cross Country/Track & Field Coach prior to the 2023-24 academic year. She enters her third term in 2025-26.

In her first year at Suffolk, the women's cross country team threepeated as CCC Champions and the men finished as the league's runner-up for the third time in as many years. Nine Rams -- five women, four men -- ran to All-CCC honors. At regionals, four student-athletes evenly divided between men, Tim Barry and Thomas Novy and women, Ellie Davis and Amy Pattelena, raced to all-region distinction. Barry shined even further has he becamse the third-ever Suffolk student-athlete to compete at NCAAs with an at-large bid. 

Away from the course in 2023, both Suffolk's men's and women's cross country teams earned USTFCCCA All-Academic Awards. Individually, five Rams -- Hayden Green, Novy, Davis, Sydney Fogg and Pattelena -- garenred All-Academic distinction from the national organization for their combined academic and athletic performances. 

In her seconde year, Suffolk's women's scooped up their fourth consecutive conference crown when it grabbed the Conference of New England (CNE) title. The men on the other hand repeated as runner-up. En route to the league team performances, nine individuals -- five women and four men -- raced to all-league accolades in Amalia Dorion (first-team), Amy Pattelena(first-team), Sydney Fogg (second-team), Sofia Moukaddem (second-team), Emily Concepcion (third-team), Tim Barry (first-team), Thomas Novy (second-team), Hayden Green (third-team) and Cam Fredette (third-team).

Regionally in 2024, the Rams women put together the a fifth-place performance, a program best, behind three all-region honorees in Dorion, Pattelena and Moukaddem. The men took eighth and had two student-athletes grab all-region nods in Barry and Green. 

Darsney came to Suffolk after a one-year stint at Brandeis. As an assistant coach of the Judges, she led the freshman multi to a sixth-place performance at the Division III New England Decathlon and helped 14 individuals garner all-conference at the outdoor UAA Championships.

Although Brandeis was her first collegiate coaching gig, Darsney’s competitive athletic resume as a pentathlete and leader for UMass Lowell from 2014-19 is second to none.  

Darsney holds the Riverhawks records in pentathlon, triple jump and the high jump, which is also an America East Conference mark. At the 2019 outdoor championships, she collected America East Field Event Award and was awarded America East Coaches award. A year prior, she was acknowledged for her work inside the classroom as well with Academic Athlete of the Year honors. That same season, she qualified in the triple jump for NCAA DI East Regionals.  

Darnsey, a native of Rowely, Massachusetts, who currently resides in Lowell, earned her bachelors and master’s in education from UMass Lowell.