Nate Wolf was named the NAIA Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year after leading Dordt University to the national championship last weekend in Tallahassee, Fla.
Ranked in the top five all season, the No.3 Defenders won the national title with 97 points, 18 better than top-ranked and defending national champion Milligan (Tenn.). Four Dordt runners,
Joe Anderson,
Davis Tebben,
Peter Shippy and
Eric Steiger, finished among the top 40 and claimed All-American honors, finished in the top 50 and all seven placed within the top 150 overall.
This was the first national title won by a Dordt team in any sport and the first cross country championship won by any school in the Great Plains Athletic Conference.
Wolf, who took over both the men's and women's program in 2015, continues to add upon his impressive coaching resume at Dordt. An 11x GPAC Coach of the year (6x for the women's program, 5x for the men's program), Wolf has guided the Dordt men to five consecutive conference titles and five straight trips to the NAIA National Championship event. He has led the women's program to three straight GPAC titles, six overall during his eight-year tenure, and eight consecutive NAIA Championship appearances. Wolf was named the GPAC Coach of the Year in both men's and women's cross country this season as well as the Midwest Regional Coach of the Year by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
