Northern State University Athletics

Livia Mahaffie enters her fourth year with the cross country and track and field programs in the fall of 2021, and third as the head coach for the men's and women's cross country teams. The 2020 fall cross country season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In the fall of 2019, Mahaffie produced two cross country all-conference performers in Riccardo Done and Jackson Harrison. The NSU men placed eighth as a team, while the women took tenth from the NSIC Cross Country Championships. 

She joined the Wolves after two seasons as an assistant cross country and track and field coach at Loyola University New Orleans, and will work primarily with the cross country and distance student-athletes.
 
In her two seasons at LUNO, Mahaffie coached three NAIA national cross country qualifiers, one NAIA national qualifier in track and field, one NAIA All-American, 12 school record holders, and the SSAC Female Cross Country Freshman Athlete of the Year. The women’s track and field team recorded podium finishes at the SSAC Outdoor Championships taking second in 2017 and third in 2018.
 
Mahaffie began her career as a graduate assistant at Wingate University in North Carolina. She worked primarily with the cross country programs in the fall of 2013. . The women's cross country team won the South Atlantic Conference Championship, the NCAA Southeast Region Cross Country Championship, for the first time in school history, and earned a bid to the NCAA DII Cross Country Championship, finishing 26^th overall. In August of 2014, she then moved on to Seattle University as the cross country/track and field administrative assistant. While at Seattle, she also worked as a ticket operations graduate assistant in the department.
 
In August of 2015, Mahaffie accepted the assistant cross country and track and field position at Holy Names Academy. She led the varsity program to an eighth place finish at the WIAA 3A State Championship, with three top-10 finishers and one individual champion. On the track, two student-athletes qualified for the WIAA 3A State Track and Field Championship in the 800m and 1600m distances. Those two individuals tallied third and fifth place finishes in the 800m and 1600m, and two state championships in both events.
 
Mahaffie then moved into a traveling operations internship with the American Junior Golf Association prior to her work at LUNO.
 
She graduate from the University of North Carolina Pembroke with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sport Science in 2013 and from Seattle University with a Master of Art in Sport Administration and Leadership in 2017.
 
Mahaffie ran collegiately at UNCP, competing in both cross country and track and field. In 2011, she earned Peach Belt Conference Runner of the Year honors, and went on to win the conference championship in 2012, where she also qualified for the NCAA National Championships. She is the former school record holder in both the 5k and 6k distances. On the track, Mahaffie is a 7-time school record holder and USTFCCCA All-Region recipient.