Meet the Coaches

Garrett Martin, Head Coach

Coach Martin is a lifelong runner who vividly remembers beating his dad at a road race in his hometown of Staunton, Virginia and getting hooked on racing in 6th grade. In 2015, he started coaching cross country and track at Lincoln Academy growing the cross country team from 18 to close to 60 team members. 

As Head Coach, Coach Martin is committed to meeting the individual needs of each team member while also building a supportive and inclusive team culture where anyone who is willing to do the work can improve and succeed. While several LA runners have gone on to run in college, he is most proud of those team members who have developed a lifelong love of running and are constantly seeking to leave their school, community, and world a better place than they found it. 

Coach Martin was selected as the Maine State Boys Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2017 after the LA Boys won Class B states for the first time in 72 years. He is also a nine-time recipient of KVAC Coach of the Year honors thanks to the success of LA teams that won KVAC championships during those years. 

Coach Martin ran cross country and track at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he specialized in the steeplechase and has relied on running to get to know places near and far from Lincoln County having worked or studied (and run) in India, Ecuador, Japan, Guatemala, England, Russia, and the Mississippi Delta before settling in the midcoast. He holds a master's degree from Princeton University and is the president and CEO of the Maine Center for Economic Policy in his day job. His wife, Jenny Mayher, is the Communications Director at Lincoln Academy and his daughter, Essie, and son, Josiah, both ran cross country at LA and graduated from Bates and attend Tufts respectively.

Monique Boutin, Assistant Coach

Coach Boutin tried track and cross country in middle school, and was excited by the chance to learn– about the places she ran, the people she ran with, and her relationships to these places and to herself. Upon joining the cross country team at York High School, she discovered a group of inspiring, supportive, strong and hilarious teammates, coaches, and the Maine running community.  (Fun fact: Monique’s high school coach, Candace Jaffe, first coached at Lincoln Academy).

Coach Boutin is grateful for the chance to support young people in a sport and community that has given her such friendships, learning opportunities, personal growth, and joy. Monique ran cross country and track at the University of Maine, focusing on the 5k. She has since continued to fall in love with trail running, especially with her dog, Louis. She has coached at Acadian Running Camp in Bar Harbor, ME, since 2011, and previously coached running at Chewonki Elementary and Middle School in Wiscasset. 

Monique holds masters degrees from Purchase College, SUNY, teaches Art at Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki, and is an artist and part-time oyster farmer with her husband, Luke, on the Sheepscot River in Wiscasset. 

Mary Boothby, Assistant Coach

Coach Boothby (aka Coach Mary or Mary) didn’t start running until much later in life…35! She attended Lincoln Academy, graduating in 1993. She played some tennis in high school but mostly wanted to be on stage singing musicals. Once she started running, though, it quickly became one of her favorite ways to explore the trails in midcoast Maine.

Mary’s family has owned Granite Hall Store since she was 7 years old. She and her sister Jane Frost now run the store and every summer employ a lot of local teens - runners and nonrunners alike. Mary lives in Bremen with her husband, Tom (a woodworker) and two daughters who both went to school at Lincoln. They have many pets including a tortoise and lots of chickens! 

She’s super excited to be volunteering with the team, getting to know this great group of kids and spending more time with the LA runners who help her scoop ice cream all summer.