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What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/30/2012 3:19PM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Running with a buddy, trivia question came up...

What NCAA cross country coaches have won team titles as a coach and also when they were a member of cross country team as an athlete (means they ran at the national meet when the team they were on won, not just on the roster)?

Can be any divisions, men or women. Probably a very short list.
Good effing question
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/30/2012 3:24PM - in reply to Trivia time Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
That Italian chick from villanova? Perhaps also Louis Quintana? Not sure if it has to be a head coach, but Danny green at Arkansas should be on there.
Huh?
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/30/2012 3:48PM - in reply to Good effing question Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Maybe Dellinger. I know he had a couple of individual NCAA track titles as an athlete and Oregon won three or four NCAA XC titles when he was head coach.
Close but not quite
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/30/2012 3:54PM - in reply to Trivia time Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
In track, Payton Jordan. Don't know with CC.
Off the Grid
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/30/2012 4:01PM - in reply to Trivia time Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
DI athlete/DIII Coach
Tom Donnelly - Villanova '66, '67, '68; Haverford '10
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RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/30/2012 5:12PM - in reply to Off the Grid Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Brian Diemer has some individual titles and D III titles at Calvin as a coach
Crusty Old Runner
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/30/2012 6:38PM - in reply to Good effing question Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Good effing question wrote:

That Italian chick from Villanova? Perhaps also Louis Quintana? Not sure if it has to be a head coach, but Danny green at Arkansas should be on there.


Good call on Gina P. from her time under Marty S.

Louis Q. was never on a team that won Cross nats during his time at Villy. He might have been on a championship 4 x 800m or DMR during indoor track-powerful relay teams with Sumner etc. He DID earn some rings during track at ASU in his capacity as the distance coach.

Danny Green was officially on Razorback teams that won Cross titles, but he himself never actually ran at the national meet. He DID run at the outdoor track national meet his redshirt senior year where his team won and earned a triple crown. In addition, he is not, in an official capacity at Arkansas, nor has he ever been a coach as recognized by either his institution, or the NCAA. So he can not be on the list.
Polytan
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/30/2012 7:29PM - in reply to Crusty Old Runner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I think Doug Brown (Florida née Temnesse) was, at least at one point, the only person to win an individual NCAA championship as an athlete, win a team NCAA championship as an athlete, win an individual NCAA championship as a coach and win a team NCAA championship as a coach. All for the same school. I may be wrong on some/all of that.
Good effing question
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/30/2012 8:07PM - in reply to Polytan Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Good to see an old razorback posting on here;)
bobby buba
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/31/2012 5:04PM - in reply to Good effing question Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
al salazar- sick team with pre won and coached galen, who won individual and kinda with a team haha
DIII info
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 3/31/2012 8:08PM - in reply to Trivia time Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The OP asked for "team titles". One I know of is Jeff Stiles. He was a D3 all-American on the North Central team that won an xc team title and also coached the Wash U women's team to an xc team title this past fall.
the clarifier
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 4/1/2012 12:20AM - in reply to bobby buba Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
[quote]bobby buba wrote:

al salazar- sick team with pre won

What is pre won?
old bear in the shower
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 4/1/2012 1:07AM - in reply to DIII info Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
DIII info wrote:

The OP asked for "team titles". One I know of is Jeff Stiles. He was a D3 all-American on the North Central team that won an xc team title and also coached the Wash U women's team to an xc team title this past fall.

came to post this
frozen planet
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 4/1/2012 6:48AM - in reply to bobby buba Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
pretty sure that Pre and Al Sal never ran on the same team at UO
Old Track Fanatic
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 4/1/2012 11:15AM - in reply to frozen planet Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Pre was dead before Salazar ever got to Oregon. The poster obviously has little clue about track and field, especially with his Rupp comment. If anyone watched the NCAA title the Oregon won with Rupp, they know that Rupp was the consumate team player.
legger
RE: What NCAA Cross Country coaches have won team titles as coaches and as athletes? 4/1/2012 11:37AM - in reply to Huh? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Huh? wrote:

Maybe Dellinger. I know he had a couple of individual NCAA track titles as an athlete and Oregon won three or four NCAA XC titles when he was head coach.


Dellinger does not meet the criteria. He coached 3 national titles as head coach, but did not run for a winning team.

I'm not sure if Oregon even contested the CC national champs when Dellinger was running - maybe somebody who knows CC history better can chime in on this.

Dellinger was Oregon's first distance NCAA track champion, though, winning the mile in '54. Oregon had some great runners before Dellinger's time, but again I'm not sure about their participation in NCAA championship meets.