Elizabeth DeBole

Head Women’s Cross Country/Assistant Track and Field Coach- Elizabeth DeBole coaches Stanford's women's distance runners, and in her first two seasons as head women's cross country coach she led the Cardinal to a pair of top-five NCAA finishes, including a podium-finish of fourth in 2017.

Elizabeth DeBole coaches Stanford's women's distance runners, and in her first two seasons as head women's cross country coach she led the Cardinal to a pair of top-five NCAA finishes, including a podium-finish of fourth in 2017.

DeBole, who has completed four academic years on staff, has collected two NCAA West Region Coach of the Year awards. She was Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2016 and Indoor Coach of the Year in 2017, the latter largely for her work with Elise Cranny and Vanessa Fraser, who combined to help Stanford to an NCAA runner-up finish in the distance medley relay.

Fraser would finish the 2018 season with a Stanford 5,000 record of 15:09.62, and became No. 6 on the all-time collegiate performers' list (including races outside the collegiate season) with the No. 7 collegiate performance ever. Fraser became the fifth runner in U.S. history to have run a sub-4:10 1,500 and sub-15:10 5,000 before age 23 -- joining Shalane Flanagan, Jenny Simpson, Suzy Favor Hamilton, and Karissa Schweizer.

With Elise Cranny (4:09.49) and Christina Aragon (4:09.59) running the two fastest 1,500's ever at Stanford while placing third and fourth at the NCAA Championships, DeBole coached Stanford's three fastest runners ever in that event. Later, in the same season, Fraser ran 4:09.74.

Showing their range, Cranny won the 2018 Pac-12 title in the 5,000, and Fraser won the 10,000. Both Fraser went on to place fourth in the NCAA outdoor 5,000.

DeBole was named to the head cross country coaching position in August, 2016, while also serving as an assistant coach in track.

A three-year cross country and track and field team captain and four-time All-America at Georgetown, the former Elizabeth Maloy was seventh at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 5,000 while coached by Miltenberg, now Stanford's Franklin P. Johnson Director of Track and Field. She placed among the top 10 at five U.S. championship meets and ran a personal best of 15:15.27.