Edward D. Eyestone (born June 15, 1961) is a two-time Olympic marathoner, long distance runner, and an NCAA coach.

Contents

• 1 Running career
  • 1.1 High school
  • 1.2 Collegiate
• 2 International racing career
  • 2.1 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
  • 2.2 Olympic and International Distance Races
• 3 Post-racing career
• 4 Coaching career
• 5 References

Running career

High school

Eyestone graduated from Bonneville High School in Washington Terrace, Utah and was the Utah State High School State Champion in cross-country and track and field.

Collegiate

Eyestone attended Brigham Young University (BYU) earning a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in psychology and a Master of Science (M.S.) in exercise science. While at BYU, he became a 10-time NCAA All-American and in 1984 went undefeated in NCAA cross-country events. Eyestone is one of only four runners, along with Gerry Lindgren, Edward Cheserek, and Suleiman Nyambui, to capture the NCAA "Triple Crown" by becoming the 1985 NCAA Champion in cross-country, 5,000:meters and 10,000:meters. In 1985, the Academic All-American and recipient of the NCAA Top Six Award set a then-NCAA record in the 10,000:meters with a time of 27:41:05. As of 2018, it was still the third-fastest official 10,000 meter time in NCAA history. He finished his collegiate career with four NCAA Championships.

In 1986, Eyestone won the San Francisco Bay to Breakers 12:km race, defeating an estimated 110,000 compe*ors in what the Guinness Book of Records considers the world's largest footrace. He remains the last American to have won this race, and the only American to have done so since 1981.

International racing career

IAAF World Cross Country Championships

1980 Junior Men's Individual Race - Bronze Medal1983 Men's Team Event: USA - Silver Medal1984 Men's Team Event: USA - Silver Medal1985 Men's Team Event: USA - Bronze Medal1986 Men's Team Event: USA - Bronze Medal

Olympic and International Distance Races

Olympic Marathon 1988 Seoul, Korea (29th place, 2:19:09)Olympic Marathon 1992 Barcelona, Spain (13th place, 2:15:23)Personal Best Marathon: 2:10:59Personal Best 10,000:Meters 27:40Ranked in the “Top Ten” of US Marathoners, for nine years.Ranked in the “Top Ten” of US 10,000:Meters for eight years.Five Time US Road Racer of the Year.1st place, Gate River Run 15K (Jacksonville, FL), (1990)1st place, Bellin 10K Run (Green Bay, Wisc.), (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995)1st place, Bay to Breakers, (San Francisco, Ca.) (1986)1st place, Peachtree Road Race 10K (Atlanta, Ga.) (1991)1st place, The Medical Center 10K Cl*ic (Bowling Green, Ky.) (1990)1st place, Twin Cities Marathon in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota (2:14:34) (1993)21st place, World Championships in Athletics - Men's Marathon (1995)

Post-racing career

After putting up his shoes, Eyestone has become a noted distance and road racing expert, serving as a columnist for Runner's World magazine and television commentor for ESPN's "Race of the Month" series. Eyestone served as an *yst for NBC Sports coverage of Track and Field and Race Walking at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Coaching career

Eyestone returned to BYU as both head coach of the cross-country team and men's track *istant coach in 2000 and was later promoted to head track coach in 2013. Coach Eyestone is a three-time selection as "Coach of the Year" for the Mountain West Conference (MWC). Previously he served as *istant track coach at Weber State University (1996–98).

Coach Eyestone was named head coach of Team USA at the 2017 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Kampala, Uganda.

On November 23, 2019, the BYU men's cross-country team (coached by Eyestone) won the NCAA D1 Championship race in Terre Haute, Indiana. Eyestone also became the first male to have both won an individual NCAA D1 Cross Country *le and coach a Division 1 team to a national *le. Eyestone was subsequently named the "Men's National Coach of the Year" (2019) by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches *ociation. Eyestone was also named the State of Utah's Governor's State of Sport Award for Collegiate "Coach of the Year" (2020).

References