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Brad
Barquist Greg Metcalf |
Greg
is in his 15th year as the Head Cross
Country and fourth as Head Track Coach at the University of Washington, his
alma mater. The UW Women's XC team is consistently ranked in the top ten
in the nation. In 2008 Greg led the UW Women's XC Team to their first
NCAA National XC Championship! Also incredible was the Husky Women's
unprecedented sweep of the 2008 Pac 10 XC Championship Meet taking the first SIX
places! Holy Cow! Greg has coached over 38 All-Americans and
three individual NCAA Track Champions. Greg came to the UW after one
year as the cross country and assistant track coach at Auburn University.
In all, Greg has guided male and female distance runners to 59 All-American honors in cross country, indoor and outdoor track,
12 PAC-10 Championships, 146 NCAA Nationals qualifiers in track and cross
country, and 26 school record holders. A two-time
All-American distance runner at the UW, Greg was a 1996 Olympic Trials
Finalist in the 3,000m Steeplechase. He has an M.S. in Exercise Physiology
from Auburn University. |
Brad
will forever be remembered for
winning the Olympic Peaks lip-sync contest with
a mesmerizing rendition of punk Country Roads! Brad
competed in the World Championships
of Track and Field in Athens, Greece, in 1997, but his greatest accomplishment was making the 1996 US Olympic Team
where he was the top United States finisher in the
10,000m. Brad also excelled in cross country as evidenced by his two US X-C
Grand Prix titles, and his membership on three United States World Cross Country
Teams. Brad won five All-American honors while competing for the
University of Michigan. He graduated in 1991 with a BA in Communications.
Brad attended Interlake High School in Bellevue, where in 1986 he won the
AAA state titles in the 1600m and 3200m, with times of 4:09 and 8:58,
respectively. Brad is now
in his 11th year coaching Cross Country and Track at Interlake. |
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