Divonne Franklin joined the Haverford College Men’s Track & Field team as an assistant coach prior to the 2024 outdoor season. 

Franklin, a California University of Pennsylvania graduate, was a four year member of the Vulcans track and field team. 

Franklin ended her collegiate career in historic fashion, winning the 2023 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field national titles in both the 100m and 200m events. Her time in the 100m (11.09), is the best-ever recorded in Division II and she also holds the second-fastest time in Division II in the 200m (22.65). In her career she earned five NCAA First Team All-America honors, two NCAA Second Team All-America honors, and was named the USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Indoor and Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year in both 2022 and 2023. 

She holds 15 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship titles and four PSAC records and is a four-time PSAC Track Athlete of the Year. Franklin holds seven school records and competed in the 2023 Indoor and Outdoor USA Track and Field Championships. Franklin earned first-team College Sports Communicators Academic All-America honors in 2023, following second-team recognition in 2022, and was a four-time USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree.

She was voted the 2022-23 PSAC Pete Nevins Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the 2023 USTFCCCA Outdoor National Scholar Track Athlete of the Year. She researched causes and solutions for vaccine hesitancy in the 2021 Science Communication and Outreach Fellowship and presented her findings on campus.

She also researched the exposure of red dye 40 on yeast cells and Drosophila melanogaster models and presented the findings during the university's Fall Creative Works and Research Event in 2021. Franklin volunteered in her campus bone marrow drives, at local high school cross country meets and during annual community cleanups.

Franklin is a four-time PSAC Top 10 Award winner and, throughout her career, was named to the CoSIDA/CSC Academic All-District First Team (2021-2023), USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (2020-2023), earned D2ADA Academic Achievement Awards (2020-2022), and was a four-time PSAC Scholar-Athlete.

Franklin graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology from California University of Pennsylvania and with a Master of Science in exercise science and health promotion from Pennsylvania Western University.