Guy Murray is the current men's and women's cross country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

 and track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 head coach at the University of Detroit Mercy

University of Detroit Mercy

University of Detroit Mercy is a private, Roman Catholic co-educational university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with the Society of Jesus and the Sisters of Mercy. Antoine M. Garibaldi is the president. With origins dating from 1877, it is the largest Roman Catholic university...

. Murray was one of the top runners in U of D history as a distance runner and he was also a marathon

Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

 runner. As a coach, Murray has won numerous awards and championships in collegiate running.

Running career

Murray was a standout runner at Brandywine High in Niles, Michigan

Niles, Michigan

Niles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. The population was 11,600 at the 2010 census. It is the greater populated of two principal cities of and included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a...

 before running at the University of Detroit. At Detroit, Murray was a four year letter winner (1985–1989) in cross country, indoor, and outdoor track and field. In cross country, Murray was All-Midwestern Collegiate Conference

Horizon League

The Horizon League is a ten school, NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose members are located in five of the Midwestern United States....

 (MCC) in 1986 and followed that by winning the Dominick Taddonio award, awarded to the cross country MVP, in 1988. In track and field, Murray was All-MCC in 1989. He earned the University of Detroit President's Award, awarded to the top senior student-athlete, in 1989.

Following his college athletic career, Murray competed in the Grandma's Marathon

Grandma's Marathon

Grandma's Marathon is an annual road race held each June in Duluth, Minnesota, in the United States. The course runs point-to-point from the town of Two Harbors on Scenic Route 61 and continues along Lake Superior into the city of Duluth...

 and finished 19th in 1999 to qualify for the US Olympic Trials. At the 2000 trials, Murray finished 57th.

Coaching career

Following his graduation, Murray was an assistant to then head coaches Earl Clark and Kevin Donner from 1989-1993. In the fall of 1993, Murray was named director of track and field/cross country. In 1996, both his men's and women's indoor track and field teams won the MCC conference championship. Since then, the men's indoor track and field team was the MCC/Horizon League champions in 2000 and 2003. The women's indoor track team was the MCC/Horizon League champions in 1998, 1999, and 2002. The women's outdoor track and field team was the MCC champions in 1999 and 2000.

In 2004, the men's track and field team was honored by the United States Track and Field & Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) by having the highest GPA

Grade (education)

Grades are standardized measurements of varying levels of comprehension within a subject area. Grades can be assigned in letters , as a range , as a number out of a possible total , as descriptors , in percentages, or, as is common in some post-secondary...

 average in the country with a 3.324. The men's track and field team has been honored as an All-Academic Team by the USTFCCCA from 2003-2010 by having an average GPA over 3.00. The women's track and field team has been All-Academic in 2003 and from 2006-2010. The men's cross country team was All-Academic from 2003-2010. The women's cross country team was All-Academic from 2003–2006 and 2008-2010. Individually, seven different Titans have been selected Academic All-America by the USTFCCCA: Kim Hemstreet (2002), Kim Jess (1995), Andrea Karpala (2003, 2004, 2005), Ryan Byrne (2005, 2008), Krista Switzer (2006), Sinisa Simic (2007), and Amanda Smith (2008).

Murray has had 2 NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

 championship qualifiers; Kim Hemstreet in 2002 for cross country and Paul Caraballo in 1997 for the high jump

High jump

The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

. Caraballo placed seventh at the NCAA championships

NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship

The NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship is an annual collegiate outdoor track and field competition for men organised by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It has three divisions: Division I, II, and III. Athlete's individual performances earn points for their institution and...

 in the high jump earning him All-American honors.

Bio

Murray currently lives in Redford, Michigan

Redford Township, Michigan

The U.S. Census Bureau also defined Redford Township as a census-designated place in the 2000 Census so that the community would appear on the list of places as well on the list of county subdivisions...

with his wife Patricia and their two children Kaitlin and Colin.