Coach Joseph C. KALNAS, CSCS, enters his 14th season at Rowan College of South Jersey – Gloucester as the Assistant Coach for both Men's and Women's Track & Field Teams specializing in the Throws and Strength & Conditioning for all events. A long-standing USA Track and Field (USATF) member of 20+ years, a USATF Level I Certified Track & Field Coach and a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist.

Coach KALNAS has helped lead the RCSJ – Gloucester teams to four National Championship Titles (2013 – Women, 2014 – Men, 2018 – Men, 2019 - Men), three teams to National Championship Runners Up (2016 – Men, 2017 – Men, 2018 - Women) and over a dozen Regional titles. Training every top thrower in the colleges history achieving 25 NJCAA Division III National Champions, 42 All – Americans (top 2 place finishers), 120+ National Championship podium place finishers (1^st – 8^th place finishers), 2 current National Records (Women’s Hammer and Shot Put – Elisia LANCASTER - 52.10 m’s and 13.24 m’s - 2019), 20+ individual regional titles and has witnessed all four Indoor and eight Outdoor Track & Field Throwing Records at the college broken and reset by his Throwers. 

Earning his first coaches award in 2006, Coach KALNAS was recognized by USA Track & Field and the US Olympic Committee as an "Emerging Elite" Coach. A few years later in 2011 Coach KALNAS was selected for his first NJCAA DIII National Assistant Coach of the Year award. In 2015, the United States Track & Field Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) selected Coach KALNAS as the Assistant Coach of the Year – East Region for both the Men and Women Teams; he would be selected for the Men's Team in 2016 and again in 2017 as well as earning his second National Assistant Coach of the Year; in 2018 he would again be selected as Assistant Coach of the Year – East Region for the Women’s team and in 2019 Coach KALNAS made a clean sweep of all the awards earning Assistant Coach of the Year – East Region for both Men’s and Women’s teams for his eighth collective region award but also did the same when the USTFCCCA named him the National Assistant Coach of the Year for both the Men’s and Women’s teams for his fourth collective National award.

Coach KALNAS began his throwing career in 1992, following his family's legacy which collectively has over 235 years of throwing experience.  Every Thrower in the KALNAS family has been nationally or internationally ranked at their respective level of competition; five members of the family including Coach KALNAS still compete nationally. Beginning his college years at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, he was a walk-on for the DI program, and would later transfer to Gloucester County College, finishing as a Region Champion, 2x NJCAA DIII National Qualifier and top ten in the nation in Discus.  Coach KALNAS graduated with an Associates in Exercise Science and, having exhausted his eligibility to compete, became a volunteer coach for GCC; in that same year he produced his first Throwing National Champion (Duane SAUNDER's, c/o 2006) who as a freshman set a National Record in the Shot Put (16.59 m/54' 5 ¼"). Coach KALNAS would go on to complete his undergrad at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington earning a Bachelor’s in Physical Education with a concentration in Exercise Science in 2008. While a student at UNCW, Coach KALNAS was a Volunteer Assistant Throws Coach and Strength Center Assistant for the DI program where they went on to win two CAA conference titles. Coach KALNAS was the training partner of his Cousin, Jon KALNAS whom, during their training together was ranked Top 20 in the world and Top 10 in the United States in Shot Put.  Together within his Cousin Jon’s organization – Strength Athletes, they have trained many of the state's top High School and Collegiate Throwers, who collectively have been awarded over $1.2 million in athletic scholarships to NCAA colleges and universities.

Coach KALNAS ended a 16+ year career as a Juvenile Detention Officer for Camden and Gloucester County Juvenile Detention Centers in 2017 and simultaneously began a full – time position at RCSJ as the Fitness Center Administrator overseeing the 5,500+ square foot facility; within this capacity, he also lead all of RCSJ's Athletic Teams as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach until resigning in December 2019. He is a Paulsboro High School class of 2000 graduate; during his high school years he was an offensive and defensive lineman on the Paulsboro Football Team; a program that still holds the state record and is ranked in the top 25 nationally for consecutive wins (63). Coach KALNAS was also a member of the 1998 NJ State Group I Track and Field Team Champions. Coach KALNAS now resides in Florence, NJ with his girlfriend Heidi and their “ark” of pets. 

The indoor and outdoor 2019 seasons for both the Men’s and Women’s Throwers would prove to be the most successful to date for the program which saw the return of the Indoor Track & Field Team after a 30-year hiatus. The “Bomb Squad” would obtain multiple indoor national rankings amongst all NJCAA divisions within the top 15 in Shot Put and as high as 3^rd in Weight. In New Jersey alone vs. all NCAA divisions, Roadrunner Throwers would boast marks also ranked as high as 3^rd in the state. Three Throwers in two events would ultimately achieve NJCAA DI nationally qualifying standards for the Indoor National Championships.

Outdoors the Throwers continued their dominance when both squads each earned enough points to finish 5^th overall as a team. 2019 also marked the third year in a row as the top-ranking squad and eight years in a row finishing second or higher.  Every thrower who qualified for the Outdoor National Championships earned a place on the podium, in doing so they added six more National Champions, two National Records in the Women’s Shot Put with 13.24 m’s and in the Women’s Hammer with 52.10 m’s, 10 All–Americans, twenty top-eight-place finishers and both of the programs top Throwers Adam HUNT and Elisia LANCASTER would be selected by the USTFCCCA as National Field Athletes of the Year. RCSJ Throwers also boasted four athletes with six performances in the Top 20 National Rankings amongst all Junior College divisions and five athletes producing eight Top 20 marks across all the Throwing events vs. any NCAA D I, II, or III school(s) in New Jersey.