Coach Greg Hipp

Hipp has been a NCAA coach for 13 years with stops at Northwestern, Northern Illinois, Missouri State and Appalachian State. Hipp also has extensive event directing experience hosting two NCAA Regional Championships, a Missouri Valley Conference Championship, and numerous track and field, cross-country and road racing events including previously serving as the operations director for the Great Races of America series and the Great American Cross Country Festival.

Hipp's athletes have set 27 different school all-time records and nine conference all-time or championship records. His teams have won seven NCAA D1 conference team championships while his runners have individually accumulated 122 All-Conference honors, 31 individual conference championship titles, been conference runner-ups 25 times and have placed third 31 times.

Through Hipp’s career his runners have qualified for the NCAA Championships in every distance event from the 800 to the 10,000m and cross-country compiling 23 National Championship First-Round and 15 National Championship Finals qualifying performances. His athletes have been named NCAA All-Region on 10 occasions and twice have been named NCAA All-American. Additionally, three of Hipp's runners have qualified for the USA National Track and Field Championships with five athletes earning USA Junior National Championship qualification. Hipp also coached Casey Owens who competed for Team USA at the 2005 Chiba Ekiden in Japan.

In the classroom Hipp’s teams have maintained a high standard receiving USTFCCCA All-Academic recognition every year of his career; including teams ranking second nationally for GPA on three occasions (2005, 2009 and 2010). His distance runners have also earned CoSIDA Academic All-America awards six times.

Hipp has been active in both USATF and USTFCCCA previously serving on the cross country executive committees for both organizations. He is a USATF Level II certified coach in endurance, sprints, hurdles and relays.