Trent Mack completed his second season as head coach of the MSU Denver men's and women's cross country teams by leading the Roadrunners' women's team back to the NCAA Division II National Championships for the first time since 2014. In two seasons, the women's team improved from 15th place in the South Central Region to being ranked No. 17 in the country heading into the national meet.
Under Mack's direction, Sabrina Rautter emerged in her senior season to become an All-American by placing 14th at the National Championships after previously earning all-region and All-RMAC accolades. She led a Roadrunners team that finish 22nd at the National Championships.
Mack also spent two seasons as the Roadrunners' track and field assistant coach.
Mack's extensive coaching career includes serving as the assistant cross country and track and field coach at Black Hills State, head cross country and track and field coach at Dakota State (S.D.), head cross country and assistant track and field coach at Ashland (Ohio), and most recently spending two years as the assistant cross country and track and field coach at Northern Colorado.
In 2014 while at Ashland, Mack was honored as the NCAA Division II Assistant Track Coach of the Year and was also named 2014 Midwest Regional and NCAA Assistant Coach of the Year. At Ashland he coached the two-time Division II indoor track athlete of the year and coached 41 All-Americans, six individual national champions and one relay national championship team. He led the men's cross country team to a top-10 national finish in 2012 and the women's cross country team to a top-10 national finish in 2014.
As the head coach at Dakota State beginning in 2008, his teams broke 23 school records, produced 43 all-conference athletes, 15 conference champions and 12 All-Americans. He was named the 2009 conference cross country coach of the year and the 2009 conference outdoor track coach of the year.
At Black Hills State, Mack worked primarily with the middle-distance runners, producing 14 All-Dakota Athletic Conference performers, six NAIA All-Americans, three school records and one individual national championship.
Mack graduated from Black Hills State with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 2004, and then earned his master's degree in business service management in 2007. Mack has also earned Group Training Certification through the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
While a student-athlete, he was a four time NAIA All-American in track and field, competing on three relay teams that set school records. He was a member of the cross country national runnerup team as a senior. A Watertown, S.D., native, he won a state championship in the 300-meter hurdles as a high school senior.
