Chris Miltenberg

In six seasons, Franklin P. Johnson Director of Track and Field and men's cross country coach Chris Miltenberg has built Stanford to where it can contend for national championships in both cross country and track and field.

In 2018, the Stanford women were a close third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships -- two points from first -- in the closest first-through-third team finish in meet history. It matched Stanford's highest women's finish ever, and the Cardinal men were eighth. The average place of 5.5 was Stanford's highest combined finish ever.

Taking into account NCAA team finishes in cross country, and indoor and outdoor track and field, the Stanford women received the Terry Crawford Program of the Year award. Stanford was the only school in the top three of both the men's and women's Program of the Year standings.

Stanford's combined score of 79 points at the NCAA Outdoor Championships was most for the Cardinal men's and women's teams since 2000. Stanford's second-place men's team finish at the Pac-12 Championships was its best since 2003.

Under Miltenberg, the Pac-12 Coach of the Year, Stanford's cross country teams have combined for 12 NCAA team appearances, six NCAA podium finishes, four region titles, and a Pac-12 championship. Individually, Stanford has crowned 17 All-Americans who have combined for 25 All-America honors, seven NCAA top-10 individual finishes and four Pac-12 individual titles.

He twice has been named NCAA West Region Coach of the Year in cross country, in 2013 and 2016. He has coached 56 Stanford All-Americans to a total of 171 All-America honors. Of those, 37 have become first-team track and field All-Americans, earning a total of 62 first-team All-America honors.

In each of the 2016 and 2017 NCAA Cross Country Championships, Stanford has been the only school to place both teams in the top five. In 2017, Stanford's twin podium (top four) team finishes were the program's first since 2006. In either year, no other school had two teams in the top seven.

In addition to winning the 2017 Pac-12 championship, the Cardinal men have made the NCAA podium for the fourth consecutive year. The men were second in 2016 and 2014, third in 2015, and fourth in 2017. The women were fourth, their top finish since 2013. Three of his men have finished among the top-5 at NCAA's and the Cardinal men have had six top-10 individual finishes since 2013. As head coach of the women's team, Miltenberg's Card teams won three Pac-12 individual cross-country titles in four years.

Under Miltenberg, Stanford has won five NCAA event titles in track and field and had 12 runner-up finishes. In addition, two Cardinal have set American junior records and another broke a collegiate record.

Miltenberg arrived from Georgetown, where he coached the Hoya women to the 2011 NCAA cross-country title.