Darlene Gaudet finished her second season with the Merrimack College men's and women's cross country and track & field coaching staffs in 2018-19. She serves as an assistant distance coach.

She helped coach the cross country teams to an incredible 2018 campaign to close out the program's Division II era on a high note. Both teams posted their best finishes in recent memory at the conference championship race highlighted by a second-place finish from the women's side that represented the best ranking for the program since their league championship three-peat in the late 1990s. The men's fifth-place finish came with a relatively young squad and was their best placement in over a decade. The women would go on to finish third at the NCAA Regional Championship to earn the program's third overall qualification for the national championship race (and second for the women), marking the second straight year that either of the two teams would make an appearance at nationals.

Rising senior Katherine Ferrara would become the program's first cross country All-American in school history to wrap up an incredible year full of individual accolades for both herself and her teammates. She was one of three all-region honorees and one of three all-conference selections, as well. Altogether, the men's and women's teams would combine for nine top-three team finishes over the course of the 2018 campaign. Merrimack also had five cross country performers earn USTFCCCA All-Academic accolades in addition to both teams earning similar honors, as well.

During the track seasons, Gaudet guided rising junior Julia Dempsey to all-conference honors during the outdoor campaign in the 5,000-meter race. The men's team posted two of its best-ever finishes at the league championship meets, including a historic runner-up performance during the outdoor season.

In 2017-18, Gaudet helped guide the men's cross country program to a third-place finish at the NCAA East Regional meet to punch the team's first-ever trip to the national championship meet. That accomplishment highlighted a fantastic campaign that saw the team earn three straight second-place finishes to start the season before a sixth-place performance at the NE10 Championship meet in October. The women also had another impressive season with four top-three finishes among the six events they competed in. Their best team finish came with a second-place result at the Bowdoin Invitational in September, while their highlight of the postseason meets occurred at the league championship when they ran to their best finish in 18 years, placing third overall. The last time a women's team enjoyed more success at the NE10 Championship meet was during the team's run of three straight championships from 1997-99.

Gaudet helped coach four USTFCCCA All-East Region performers during the cross country season and a pair of all-conference selections. During the 2017-18 track campaigns, she helped coach Keith Steinbrecher to the 3000m Steeplechase at the NE10 Outdoor Championships, provisionally qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the process. She also helped coach an all-region distance medley relay during the indoor season, as well.