Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mark Coogan is in his third year as an assistant crosscountry and distance track coach at MIT. Although he served as headcoach at Phillips Exeter Academy for the four previous years,Coogan is widely known for a highly-distinguished career as aprofessional long-distance runner.

Representing the United States in the marathon at the 1996Summer Olympic Games, Coogan's accomplishments to the sport ofdistance running are exhaustive. He is an eight-time member of theU.S. world championship cross country team and earned a silvermedal in the marathon at the 1995 Pan-American Games. A two-timebronze medalist at the United States Track and Field Championships,Coogan is also a three-time United States road race champion andwas the first Massachusetts resident to break the four-minutemile.

While at Phillips Exeter Academy, Coogan led the boy's crosscountry team to three New England prep school teamchampionships.

MIT marks Coogan's second collegiate stint as he also served asassistant coach for the men's cross country program at BrownUniversity from 1991-92. In 2005, Coogan worked with Americandistance runners as a coach for the U.S. National Team.