Former two-time Olympian Ed Eyestone has established a team that is considered as one of the elite programs in the nation. Since his arrival in 2000, the Cougars have won the Mountain West Conference Championship five of the last six seasons.

Eyestone, who was a 10-time All-American at BYU as an athlete, has guided his teams to greatness as the head coach. Beginning with a national ranking of 23rd in his first season, Eyestone's teams have been in the nation's top 20 every year since then, including a 13th-place finish in 2005.

Since taking on the head coaching responsibilities, Eyestone has coached four All-Americans. John Hedengren earned All-American status in the 2000 season, becoming the first All-American for BYU since Mark Johanson earned the award in 1995. Nathan Robison earned the All-American honor at the end of the 2003 season, Josh Rohatinsky did the same in the 2004 and 2005 seasons and Chandler Goodwin received the honor in 2005.

Eyestone earned his first MWC Coach of the Year award in 2002 after his team's winning performance at the conference championships. He has since been honored with two additional MWC Coach of the Year awards, including one in the 2005 season.

Not only has he coached several great athletes during his coaching career, but Eyestone has also served as a commentator for ESPN and Fox Sport's "Elite Racing" for 12 years and has been a columnist for Runner's World magazine since 1999.

Prior To BYU: Before coming to BYU, Eyestone was a professional distance runner for 15 years, and he was an assistant coach at Weber State University from 1996-1998.

Eyestone won every collegiate cross country race he entered his senior year and earned the 1984 NCAA cross country championship title. He became only the third athlete to win the rare triple crown of national titles: winning the 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters and cross country titles all in that same year. During his remarkable senior season in 1985, he set an NCAA record in the 10,000 meters at the Mt. SAC Relays, running 27:41.05.

Eyestone capped his running career by competing in the marathon as a member of two Olympic teams, first in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea, and then in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, the same area where he earlier served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Of Note: He has been named U.S. Road Racer of the Year five times and has a career-best marathon time is 2:10.59.

Education: Eyestone excelled as a student as well during his collegiate career. He earned two degrees from BYU, a bachelor's in psychology and a masters in exercise science. He was a GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American with a cumulative GPA of 3.69 and won the prestigious NCAA Top Six Award given to the country's top six student athletes.