Kennesaw State University Women's Cross Country

  Adam Bray is in his seventh season as head coach of cross country and eighth as an assistant coach for track & field. Since Bray took over the Kennesaw State distance program prior to 2018 indoor track and field season:    5x First Team All-American 2x Second Team All-American 5x NCAA East Preliminary Qualifiers 22x ASUN Conference Champions 21x School Records 53x ASUN Podium Finishes 26x CUSA Podium Finishes 4x USTFCCCA Women’s Cross Country All-Academic Team 4x USTFCCCA Men’s Cross Country All-Academic Team 8x ASUN All-Conference Selections (Cross Country) 1x CoSIDA Academic All-American (Second Team)   The 2025 season saw the KSU distance records written on the men’s side by the trio of Edwin Kiprono, Brian Limo and Collins Kipkemboi. They each set school records ad medaled at the conference championships helping the men’s team sweep the CUSA titles. The women’s distance squad was paced by Emma Sullivan and Madison Seiler. Sullivan swept the gold medals in the 800m at the CUSA Championships. Seiler set the school record in the steeplechase and qualified for the NCAA East Preliminaries placing 13th in the 3K steeplechase.   KSU finished third on the women’s side and fifth on the men’s side at the Conference USA XC championships. Collins Kipkemboi, Brian Limo, Emma Ferguson and Madison Seiler collected Conference USA honors.     The 2024 track season saw the saw KSU set a few more distance school records.   The KSU women’s cross country finished second at the 2023 cross country championships scoring 74 points. Emma Sullivan was named Second Team All-Conference while Zoe Smith, Ciara Miles and Faith Boback landed Third Team All-Conference honors.   The Owls were led in 2023 by Sarah Hendrick and Koi Williams and Grant Crabtree. Hendrick earned First Team All-American honors at the NCAA Indoor Championships and Second Team All-American honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Sarah Hendrick, Natalie Cummings, Britney Chatfield, Caroline Timm set the ASUN Indoor Championship record in the distance medley relay. Hendrick won both the 800m and 1500m at the ASUN Outdoor Championships.   The KSU women placed fourth at the 2022 ASUN Cross Country Championships.   During the indoor and outdoor seasons of 2022, the Owls were led by Sarah Hendrick and Gavin Frick as they both broke school records as well as won many events throughout the year. Hendrick would go on to earn her third and fourth First Team All-American honors and break six school records in the process. Frick would break the outdoor 5000m school record while the rest of Owls would set personal bests on a weekly basis. During the ASUN championships, Kennesaw State athletes contributed multiple points to the track team’s overall performance.   The fall of 2021 saw both the men’s and women’s cross country teams reach new heights at the ASUN Conference level and NCAA Regional level. Sarah Hendrick and Katie Meyer both earned All-ASUN conference honors.   The women’s team went on to earn a program-best finish at the NCAA South Regional, while the men earned their best finish at the South Region in over ten years.   During the 2021 indoor/outdoor seasons Coach Bray’s distance crew rewrote the Kennesaw State record books.   During the outdoor season, the Owls were once again led by Hendrick and a host of others. Hendrick would go on to break school records in the 1500m, 800m & 4x800m relay. To cap of her amazing season, Hendrick would earn First Team All-America honors by finishing fifth overall at the Outdoor NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon. In all the lady Owls under Bray’s guidance own the 800m, 1500m, 3000m steeplechase, 5000m school records. Billings, Hendrick and Zeh would go on to represent the Owls at the NCAA Preliminary Round. At the 2021 indoor ASUN Championships, the distance crew scored valuable points to help KSU win the women’s team title. Sarah Hendrick won the 800m in a meet record time of 2:03.73. This mark qualified her for the indoor NCAA Championships. Lindsay Billings won the 3000m in a conference and school record time of 9:30.38. Finally, on the women’s side sophomore Britiney Johnson won the 400m to round out three golds for the distance Owls. Koi Williams placed third in the mile in a time of 4:09.33, breaking the KSU school record in the process   Sarah Hendrick went on to earn First Team All-America honors at the NCAA Championships placing eighth overall.   During the indoor campaign of 2020, the Owls broke multiple school records and earned All-ASUN Conference accolades before the outdoor season was cancelled due to the pandemic. During the fall of 2019, Bray led the Owls women's cross country team to a third-place finish at the ASUN Championships while the men grabbed seventh. In the spring of 2019, Bray's distance runners posted five ASUN All-Conference performances.     Bray came to KSU from Georgia Tech where he spent the fall of 2018 as a volunteer assistant coach with the cross country team. While on the Flats, Bray helped lead the women’s team to a 28th place finish at the NCAA Championships.   Bray spent five seasons at the University of Pittsburgh coaching the cross country and distance groups. He coached multiple athletes to setting new school records in seven events, NCAA Championship qualifying athletes for Track & Field and Cross Country, multiple athletes with All-Region honors, All-Academic honors, and best program finishes in ACC Championship and NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional meets. In 2017, Bray guided Gillian Schriever to become the first Pitt female distance runner to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships since 2006 and break a 25-year-old school record in the 10k. Earning Second Team All-America Honors   Prior to joining the Pitt staff, Bray spent the 2012 cross country season as an assistant coach at Temple University. While at Temple, Bray coached the Mid-Atlantic Region individual champion and the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Athlete of the Year, Travis Mahoney. Mahoney went on to earn All-America honors for Temple at the NCAA Championships, finishing 38th overall. He also guided the men's team to its best conference finish in program history and had two student-athletes earn all-conference honors.   Bray was a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Illinois from 2009-2012. Working with both the men’s and women’s programs at Illinois, Bray was part of a staff that finished runner-up at the 2012 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships. During Bray’s time at Illinois, he worked with NCAA Champions, NCAA Qualifiers, and multiple Big Ten Champions. The Fighting Illini teams went on to finish in the top 20 at the NCAA Championships.   Prior to Illinois, Bray was a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Maryland from 2007-09. Bray was responsible for coaching the female mid-distance and distance student-athletes and helped many achieve all-conference and all-region honors.   Bray earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Akron in 2005 in exercise science/sports management. He was a four-year letter winner and a team captain for the Zips cross country and track and field teams. He earned his sports science and coaching master's degree from Akron in 2006.  

Eggerth has had tremendous success with both the cross country and track and field programs. He has coached 16 All-Americans since coming to KSU, and his teams have won 10 Atlantic Sun Conference Track and Field Championships and one Cross Country title in 2010.   This past season, the men and womens teams rose up again with the men claiming their fifth consecutive Indoor ASUN Championship and winning the outdoor championship for the fourth time in a row. At the A-Sun Outdoor Championship, the men claimed wins in 10 of the 21 events and had 31 student-athletes named to the All-Conference team. Meanwhile, the women finished runner-up with 21 all-conference selections.   Eggerth has the student-athletes under a tough regimen throughout the season, always getting results when its championship time. On the mens side, they have had 120 individual champions, and on the womens side there have been 65 total individual champions. Along with winning championships, his teams have been represented at the NCAA Championships every year he has been at Kennesaw State. When conference records are going down so are school records. With Eggerth coaching the squad, the men have broken 13 of 17 indoor records and 18 of 21 outdoor records. The women have broken all 17 indoor records as well as breaking 19 of 21 outdoor school records. In 2016, Bilal Abdullah and Andre Dorsey shined under Eggerth with both athletes completing their careers at the U.S. Olympic Trials. During this past indoor season, Abdullah was named Most Outstanding Performer for his performance at the ASUN Championship where he collected two first and two second place finishes. He would earn All-American Honors for finishing sixth in the heptathlon and for finishing 15th in the long jump at the 2016 NCAA Indoor Championships. He won the decathlon at the 2016 ASUN Outdoor Championships scoring a conference championship record of 7286 points. He competed in the NCAA Championship and the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in the long jump.  In spring of 2016, Dorsey returned from an injury that sidelined him a season ago and set all three outdoor school records in the jumping events. He ranked in the top-20 in NCAA for the long jump, high jump, and triple jump. He went on to compete in the 2016 Olympic Trials in the triple jump. The Chalmette, Louisiana native graduated with a degree in exercise science in spring of 2016. Bilal Abdullah shined under Eggerths leadership in 2015 becoming the first Owl to ever score points at the NCAA Indoor Championships. He won the heptathlon at the A-Sun Championships establishing a new A-Sun heptathlon scoring record of 5600 points. Set new A-Sun heptathlon superlatives in the 60m dash (6.89), 60m hurdles (8.04), high jump (2.09m, 6-10.25), and long jump (7.01m, 23-0) which were good for four wins and helped earn his trip to the NCAA Indoor Championship. He collected two wins in the 60m (6.90) and the long jump (7.65m, 25-1.25) and two second place finishes in the 60m hurdles and the high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships for a new school record 5941 points. Andre Dorsey had one of the best seasons in a Kennesaw State uniform in 2014 being the only athlete in the country to qualify for the long jump, triple jump and high jump at the NCAA Indoor National Championships. At one point during the season, he was the number one triple jumper in the nation. Dorsey was named the Mens Most Valuable Performer at the Atlantic Sun Championship for the third straight year and was named the South Region Athlete of the Year.  He also was the first KSU track and field member to compete at the USA Outdoor Championships in 2013. In 2015, Josh Mulder qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championship finals in the decathlon and Drew Duggans qualified in the 100m. Mulder took home 14th which earned him second team All-American honors. The womens 4x100 team qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships for the in 2013 and 2014 and finished in 14 place in 2014 earning second team All-American honors.     The Owls have also had a lot of success in the classroom under Eggerth. Since the Atlantic Sun debuted the Academic All-Conference team in 2012, Kennesaw State track and field and cross country have had 45 team members selected, including the 2016 Mens Indoor Co-Scholar of the Year Joseph Yates and the 2012 Womens Indoor Track and Field Scholar Athlete of the Year, Naomi Mack. In his first six years, he has had 49 athletes become Presidential Scholars after achieving 4.0 GPAs during a semester. The women's cross country team is a national program of Recognition for perfect APR four years in a row.   To go along with these student-athletes commitment in the classroom and the track, they are also committed to helping in the community as each of his student athletes averaged 18.5 hours of community service during the 2015-16 academic year.   Eggerth came to Kennesaw State after spending the previous four years at Kansas State as their assistant coach for both track and field and cross country. At Kansas State, Eggerth worked with sprints and hurdles while also assisting with mid-distance and distance athletes. On top of his coaching duties, Eggerth also served as the assistant recruiting coordinator, assisted with fundraising and alumni relations, managed equipment and apparel, along with a host of other administrative responsibilities.   Prior to his time at Kansas State, Eggerth found great success at University of Alabama- Birmingham.  After spending two years working with the sprinters and jumpers, Eggerth worked with the Blazer hurdlers and combined event athletes as well as recruiting, compliance and travel duties. During his three years there, the athletes under his direction were able to achieve 13 school records and seven freshman records.   Additionally, Eggerth worked for the National Sports Center (NSC) in Blaine, Minn. as the Track and Field Director for two years.  During his time there, he managed almost 200 athletes while also organizing meets, planning the budget, hiring assistant coaches and recruiting athletes and coaching the sprinters and hurdlers at the NSC.   Before his appointment at the NSC, Eggerth completed his masters degree in exercise physiology at Syracuse University while serving as a graduate assistant coach for sprinters and hurdlers. During this time, he was also competing in post-collegiate events.   Before his graduate work, Eggerth completed his undergraduate work at Bemidji State (Minn.) University, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in sport management. Eggerths success went beyond the classroom as he broke 16 school records, one conference record and qualified for the NCAA Championship in five events.   Eggerth is an instructor for the USTFCCCA Coaches Academy and has written the physiology curriculum. He has "Elite Coach" certification from the IAAF in sprints and hurdles, USATF level 3 certification in the Jumps, USTFCCCA certification in the combined events and throws, and has been to USATF level 2 certification schools in distance events, combined events, jumps, and throws.  He is certified strength and conditioning and has taken the USTFCCCAs Javelin Master Coach certification.  Eggerth was appointed to the newly created NCAA Track & Field Rules Committee in 2012 that helps to continue advancing NCAA Track & Field, and currently serves on the NCAA Track & Field and Cross Country Sport Committee.   He is married to Agne Eggerth and currently resides Acworth, Ga.    

Poteet as our Cross Country and distance coach," Eggerth said. "He understands career periodization for athletes and brings a wealth of wisdom and experience to the role, coupled with a humility and desire to continue learning.  I believe that David will be able to connect well with our student-athletes and motivate them to fulfill their potential.  Being local, I anticipate we'll have stability for our distance athletes and the recruiting benefit of the many Georgia coaches he knows." Poteet comes to Kennesaw State after spending one year at Kell High School as the assistant cross country and track and field middle distance/distance coach.   "30 years ago, I was the first combined track/cross country coach at what was then Kennesaw College," Poteet said. "To be back here and see the exciting, positive changes that have taken place at Kennesaw State University and the Department of Athletics is more than I could have ever hoped." At Kell, Poteet led several athletes to claim prestigious awards including five gold medals and three silver medals at the GHSA Georgia Olympics and two first-place finishes in the 1600m and 3200m at the GHSA Georgia Olympics in the AAAAA classification. Under the helm of Poteet at Kell, runners saw record-breaking performances as Logan Poteet became t only the sixth  Georgia high school runner to ever break the nine minute mark in the 3200m (8:57.5) He also helped the Kell runners break six school records and two cross country individual championships.   Prior to working at Kell, Poteet was the founder of the Bobby Dickrerson Youth Runners, where he was a coach from 2005-14.  In addition, Poteet was the head coach of the Cross Country and Track and Field teams at Kennesaw College from 1984-86 which is now known as Kennesaw State University. In 1986, he was named NAIA District 25 Male Coach of the Year after leading the men's cross country team to a District 25 Conference Championship, which was the first team championship for any Kennesaw team. Poteet graduated from Berry College with a degree in Speech and English and a journalism minor. He ran for the track team while at Berry where he won two NAIA District 25 Championships in the 400m and one in the 200m. David Poteet has been named head coach of the Kennesaw State cross country program, announced on Tuesday, Aug. 17 by Andy Eggerth - Director of Track & Field and Cross Country. "I'm excited to announce the addition of David Poteet as our Cross Country and distance coach," Eggerth said. "He understands career periodization for athletes and brings a wealth of wisdom and experience to the role, coupled with a humility and desire to continue learning.  I believe that David will be able to connect well with our student-athletes and motivate them to fulfill their potential.  Being local, I anticipate we'll have stability for our distance athletes and the recruiting benefit of the many Georgia coaches he knows." Poteet comes to Kennesaw State after spending one year at Kell High School as the assistant cross country and track and field middle distance/distance coach.   "30 years ago, I was the first combined track/cross country coach at what was then Kennesaw College," Poteet said. "To be back here and see the exciting, positive changes that have taken place at Kennesaw State University and the Department of Athletics is more than I could have ever hoped." At Kell, Poteet led several athletes to claim prestigious awards including five gold medals and three silver medals at the GHSA Georgia Olympics and two first-place finishes in the 1600m and 3200m at the GHSA Georgia Olympics in the AAAAA classification. Under the helm of Poteet at Kell, runners saw record-breaking performances as Logan Poteet became t only the sixth  Georgia high school runner to ever break the nine minute mark in the 3200m (8:57.5) He also helped the Kell runners break six school records and two cross country individual championships.   Prior to working at Kell, Poteet was the founder of the Bobby Dickrerson Youth Runners, where he was a coach from 2005-14.  In addition, Poteet was the head coach of the Cross Country and Track and Field teams at Kennesaw College from 1984-86 which is now known as Kennesaw State University. In 1986, he was named NAIA District 25 Male Coach of the Year after leading the men's cross country team to a District 25 Conference Championship, which was the first team championship for any Kennesaw team. Poteet graduated from Berry College with a degree in Speech and English and a journalism minor. He ran for the track team while at Berry where he won two NAIA District 25 Championships in the 400m and one in the 200m.