Sarah Lonzi was named full-time assistant cross country / track coach in July 2018 and begins her eighth season at St. Bonaventure in 2025. She was elevated to Associate Head Coach in November 2025.
She has helped lead a resurgence for the Bonnies running programs as all of the men's all-time individual top-10 cross country 5K and 8K times have been set during her time on staff. Bonnies men's and women's athletes have collected a total of 21 Atlantic 10 weekly awards in cross and track along with nine College Sports Communicators Academic All-District selections. Lonzi has also helped oversee the expansion of the Bonnies track programs with full schedules during indoor and outdoor seasons.
During the 2025 cross country season, 19 of 20 Bonnies men's cross country runners posted new personal best times while 14 of 18 women's team members registered new PRs. Men's senior Clay Peets posted the top season in Bonnies history, winning three meets and earning Atlantic 10 All-Conference honors. Last year, the Bonnies scored their first points at the Atlantic 10 Indoor Track Championships when Aiden Scattergood took fifth in the mile. St. Bonaventure first competed at A-10 Indoor Championships in 2022.
During the 2021 cross country season, freshman Clay Peets became the first Bonnies runner to be named Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week three times. In 2022-23, Peets earned Atlantic 10 Performer of the Week honors in cross country while finishing ninth in the 5000 meters at A-10 Outdoor Track Championships, a new program-best. Nine Bonnies achieved PRs at the 2023 A-10 Outdoor Championships on the men's team while on the women's side, the Bonnies set six program records and 19 student-athletes re-wrote the school's individual top-10s a total of 29 times in nine separate events during the 2023 indoor campaign.
In her first season with the Bonnies running programs, men's freshman Logan Caruso earned a pair of Atlantic 10 Cross Country Rookie of the Week honors, becoming the first men's runner in program history to do so. The men's cross country team also won Erie's Race in the Park. In men's track, Bona runners set program records in the 800 and 5000 meters. On the women's side, Bona runners set top-five times in program history in nearly every track event.
As part of the 2019-20 season, Nathan Prisella posted the second-fastest individual men's 5K time in program history while the team set three of the program's top-five individual 8K times, led by a program record from Will Delaney with Delaney also posting the fastest 10K time in Bona history since 1982.
A native of Bradford, Lonzi ran for Bonnies head coach Bob Macfarlane in high school where she won four District 9 cross country titles as well as three track crowns in each the 3,200 and 1,600 meters before graduating in 2008.
Lonzi graduated from Pitt-Bradford with a bachelor's degree in Sports Medicine and also earned her Master of Science in Clinical Health and Physical Activity with a concentration in Exercise Physiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Following her collegiate career, she moved to the head of the classroom where she became a visiting instructor of exercise science at UPB. She previously worked as an exercise physiologist at Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville and also has also served as a cardiopulmonary technician at Olean General Hospital.
