Matt McMasters is in his second year at Yale, joining the Yale cross country and track and field coaching staff as an assistant coach in the summer of 2015. McMasters coaches long sprints, middle distance and distance athletes and also serves as the program’s director of operations.
During his time with the Bulldogs, McMasters has helped guide Yale middle distance, distance and cross country athletes to 1 First Team All-American (1500m), 2 Second Team All-Americans (Mile), 1 NCAA Cross Country Championship Team Qualifier, 2 NCAA Cross Country Championships Individual Qualifiers, 6 NCAA First Round Qualifiers, 1 Ivy League Cross Country Champion, 5 Ivy League Track and Field Champions, 23 All-Ivy Honorees, 5 Yale University Records and Yale’s first sub-4:00 miler in school history.
McMasters’ two seasons at Xavier included one as a graduate assistant. In 2013, he helped the women’s cross country team achieve the best regional finish in school history (and the best year-to-year regional finish improvement in Division I). He also helped Clare Fischer become the school’s first NCAA Championship qualifier. All told in his two years, he worked with one USTFCCCA All-Academic individual honoree, two NCAA First Round qualifiers, one Big East champion, 11 All-Big East honorees, 20 Xavier record holders and 32 Xavier all-time cross country entries. All of the teams he worked with were named USTFCCCA All-Academic.
In addition to his coaching experience, McMasters brings an extensive academic background to New Haven. A native of Cincinnati, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2011 with bachelors and masters degrees in biomedical engineering with specializations in biomechanics. He began work on a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering/biomechanics at Cincinnati, then enrolled in Xavier’s sport administration program and earned his master’s degree in education in that field in 2014.
Prior to Xavier, McMasters spent seven years coaching at the middle school and high school levels in Cincinnati. He was the head cross country coach and head track and field coach at All Saints Middle School from 2006 to 2012, then served as an assistant coach at Mount Notre Dame High school in 2012-13.
