New Orleans, La. (August 18) -- Former MIT cross country/track and field head coach Halston Taylor has been selected as a member of the 2022 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Coaches Hall of Fame Class. Taylor and the other inductees will be honored at an awards dinner on December 13, 2022 at the USTFCCCA Convention in Denver, Colo.
 
The other inductees are Josh Culbreath (Central State), Greg Kraft (Arizona State), Art Venegas (UCLA), Mark Wetmore (Colorado) and Sue Williams (UC Davis).
 
Over Taylor's 40-year career at MIT, his teams emerged as perennial national contenders in both cross country and track and field. Under his guidance, the Engineers captured 68 NEWMAC Championships, 54 Regional titles and two NCAA Division III Deb Vercauteren Program of the Year Awards. Taylor is a 46-time NEWMAC Coach of the Year and was named as the USTFCCCA Regional Coach of the Year on 23 occasions. Academically, his student-athletes earned 13 NCAA Elite 90 Awards and four CoSIDA Academic All-America of the Year honors.
 
In addition, Taylor coached 21 NCAA track and field individual national champions and 32 cross country All-Americans, while his men's and women's cross country teams combined for 18 top-10 finishes at the NCAA National Championship. His men's team finished as the national runner-up in his final season in 2021, while the women's team earned national runner-up honors in the 2014 season.
 
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