- Head CoachContact Head Coach Ed McAllister at mcallister@sxu.edu
McAllister enters his fourth season with the Saint Xavier University men's cross country team and track teams. Last season, SXU Finished third overall at the region meet and sent one of its runners to the 2006 NAIA Cross Country Championships in Louisville, Ky. In 2005, McAllister was named both the CCAC and NAIA Region VII Coach of the Year as his Cougars captured conference and region cross country titles in only their second season of competition. The similarities between the 2005 season and when McAllister started the original SXU Squad in 1976 are uncanny. Both teams garnered first place honors at the conference and regional levels.
McAllister brings a wide variety of track/cross country experiences to Saint Xavier University having coached at all levels from high school to NCAA Division I. Know as "Coach Mac" to his runners, he has coached at the collegiate level at Chicago State University and West Texas State University, where he was named Missouri Valley Cross Country Coach of the Year in 1979.
McAllister graduated from DePaul University in Chicago in 1970. He currently resides in Manhattan, Illinois.