Jack Daniels has led SUNY Cortland teams to more NCAA championships than any coach in the College's history. A world renowned distance coach and exercise physiologist, he joined the SUNY Cortland Physical Education Department faculty in 1986. He has produced 23 individual national champions and 90 All-American.
As women's cross country coach between 1987-95, his teams always finished in the top 10 nationally and won NCAA Division III championships in 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995. In 1991, the team finished second. His 1992 squad still holds the NCAA meet record of 18 points. His teams won nine straight SUNYAC and six ECAC crowns. In 1991, his women's indoor track team captured the NCAA Division III championship. Since becoming men's cross country coach in 1986, his Red Dragon teams appeared in five NCAA Division III championships, finishing sixth both in 1987 and 1991 and captured five consecutive SUNYAC titles.
Last year, he was at Arizona State University on leave. Daniels graduated from the University of Montana and earned a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin. He was a two-time Olympic medalist in the modern pentathlon, winning the silver at Melbourne in 1956 and the bronze at Rome in 1960. He has coached track at the University of Texas and the University of New Hampshire and cross country at Oklahoma City University. He serves on the Editorial Board of Runner's World and continues to coach, via fax, several elite distance runners worldwide.
He and his wife, Nancy, have two daughters: Audra and Sarah.
