Davenport University Women's Cross Country

Cook is in his 10th season as head coach of Davenport University's cross country and track & field teams. During his time at DU, his indoor and outdoor track & field teams have seen the most success. Cook has coached 35 WHAC champions in both sports along with a WHAC Outdoor Athlete of the Year in two of the last four seasons. He has also coached 11 athletes who have earned nine NAIA All-American honors. In 2013-14, the program saw its biggest individual accomplishment as Tori Brooks won the indoor and outdoor national championship in the high jump. It marks the first ever NAIA title in any sport at the school. Brooks would go on to repeat his indoor title in the winter of 2015. Academically, Cook's teams are top notch. He had 18 student-athletes earn NAIA Scholar Athlete recognition in the last three years.  During the 2010-2011 season, all six of his teams were named NAIA Scholar Teams for having a combined GPA of at least 3.0. Previously, Cook was the head coach at Northwood University for six seasons.  During his time at Northwood he coached a dozen NCAA Division 2 All-Americans and two Academic All-Americans. Previous to NU, Cook served as assistant cross country and track & field coach at Grand Valley State University. Scott is a 1997 graduate of Bradley University where he lettered four years in cross country. In addition to his coaching roles he serves at the WHAC Chair for his sports and is on the NAIA Games Committee.  He is also a member of DU's Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee. He and his wife Beth reside in Alto, Mich. with their two children Addy and Owen.

Weir enters year three as an assistant coach for Davenports track & field/XC team. Weir brings to Davenport five years of coaching experience at the collegiate level where he was an assistant at Illinois Wesleyan University since 2010. Weir coached the pole vault, high jump, hurdles, and multi-events in his stint with the Titans as well as being in charge of the strength and conditioning program for most of the team. There he helped coach 12 National Qualifiers, among them were three All-Americans and one National Champion, along with seeing his Heptathlete score the ninth-most points ever at the Division III Outdoor National Championship meet.  Here at DU, Weir will be overseeing, program writing, and recruiting for all the jumps, hurdles, and Multis. He will be assisted in the horizontal jumps and hurdles by two other great coaches. He will also be heading up most of the strength and conditioning programs for the team. In the short 2-1/2 years here, he has helped guide 18 National Qualifiers, four All-Americans, and one National Champion, along with qualifying an athlete for the USA Indoor T&F Championships. Last year all four of the female high jumpers qualified for Nationals. Weirs background is in Sports and Health Sciences and is a certified strength and conditioning coach. He is originally from Princeton, Wisconsin and attended UW-Stout.