Addy Royal

Addy Royal is in her first season as an assistant coach working with the men’s and women’s distance programs.

Royal was a volunteer assistant coach as Stanford swept the 2020-21 Pac-12 men’s and women’s cross country titles. Stanford also was the only school to place both teams among the top five at the NCAA Cross Country Championships.

Four runners were named All-Americans and Ella Donaghu and Alek Parsons were named cross country Scholar-Athletes of the Year in the Pac-12.

Royal came to Stanford from UC San Diego, where she was an assistant coach for the men’s and women’s distance runners and director of operations from 2018-20.

In 2019, Royal played part in the Triton men's first trip back to the NCAA Championships since 2007 after a seventh-place finish at Regionals. She also coached freshman Samantha Rocke to an at-large berth to the national meet. Three runners were named both All-California Collegiate Athletic Association and All-West Region.

As a men’s and women’s distance assistant at Southern Oregon from 2016-18, Royal helped guide the men's team to an NAIA championship in 2016 and a fourth-place finish in 2017. She also led the women's team to seventh at the 2016 NAIA Championships. Six Raiders were named NAIA All-Americans during her two seasons.

Royal is a 2016 graduate of Sacramento State in 2016, where she majored in communication studies with a concentration in digital media. She went on to earn a master's in Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership/Coaching at the University of Washington in 2018.

As a collegiate athlete, Royal was part of four Big Sky Conference outdoor championship teams. She was No. 7 on the Hornets’ all-time performers’ list in the steeplechase and was named to the Big Sky All-Academic team.

Royal starred on the Oak Harbor (Wash.) High School cross country and track teams and played basketball. She was a two-time Junior Olympics national steeplechase runner-up and a state 3A finalist in the 800. She was a member of the National Honor Society and a Coca-Cola Scholar.