1998 BYU Hall of Fame

As head coach, two-time Olympian Ed Eyestone has established a team that is considered to be one of the elite programs in the nation. Since his arrival in 2000, the Cougars won the Mountain West Conference Championship eight times.

Eyestone, who was a 10-time All-American at BYU as an athlete, has guided his teams to greatness as the head coach. Beginning with a national ranking of 23rd in his first season, Eyestones teams have been in the nations top 25 every year since then, including a 5th-place finish in 2004.

Since taking on the head coaching responsibilities, Eyestone has coached six cross country athletes to nine All-American citations and an individual National Champion. John Hedengren earned All-American status in the 2000 season, becoming the first All-American for BYU since Mark Johanson earned the award in 1995. Nathan Robison earned the All-American honor at the end of the 2003 season, Chandler Goodwin received the award in 2005 and 2007 and Josh Rohatinsky earned it in 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2006 Josh Rohatinsky crowned his college cross country career by winning the National Cross Country Championship in Terre Haute, Indiana. Kyle Perry became an All-American, finishing in 10th place in 2008. Most recently, Miles Batty earned All-American honors after a 15th place finish at the National Cross Country Championships in 2010. Eyestone has also coached athletes to 33 All-American citations in track.

Eyestone earned his first MWC Coach of the Year award in 2002 after his teams winning performance at the conference championships. He has since been honored with five additional MWC Coach of the Year awards, including the 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 seasons.

Not only has he coached several great athletes during his coaching career, but Eyestone also served as a commentator for ESPN and Fox Sports Elite Racing for 12 years and has been a columnist for Runners World magazine since 1999. In 2008 Eyestone was the head distance analyst for NBCs coverage of the Beijing Olympics.

• Fourth in WAC/District Seven Championships, 29:59.3
• Eighth in the NCAA Cross Country Championships
• Third at TAC World Junior Cross Country Championships

• First in the Pre-District Seven Cross Country Meet, 30:53.5
• First in the Stanford Cross Country Invitational, 30:13
• First in the BYU-Nike Cross Country Classic, 28:40
• First in the Colorado Cross Country Invitational, 30:14
• First in the WAC/District Seven Championships, 30:09.6
• Third in the WAC 10,000-meters, 29:48.91
• Sixth in the NCAA 10,000-meters, 29:55.29
• Ninth in the NCAA Cross Country Championships, 30:13.0
• Received the Memorial Scholarship/Athlete Award
• Thirtieth in the TAC World Cross Country Championships

• First in the NCAA Cross Country Championships, 29:28.8
• First in the WAC Cross Country Championships, 29:16.3
• First in the BYU-Nike Cross Country Classic, 28:17
• First in the North Carolina Cross Country Invitational, 23:29
• First in the Wisconsin Cross Country Invitational, 23:31.5
• First in the Holiday Bowl 10,000
• First in the NCAA 10,000-meters, 28:05.30
• First in the WAC 5,000-meters, 13:52.54
• Second in the WAC 10,000-meters, 28:36.59
• Sixth in the TAC World Cross Country Championships
• Qualified for the 10,000-meter 1984 Olympic Trials
• Became the BYU 10,000-meter record holder, 27:56.06

• First in the Cornhusker Invitational Indoor Two Mile, 8:33.95
• First in the WAC Indoor Mile
• First in the WAC Indoor Two-Mile
• Second in the NCAA Indoor 3,000-meters
• Second in the Dallas-Times Herald Indoor Two Mile, 8:23.10
• Winner of the Ed Stein Award for the top student-athlete award at BYU
• Clocked in at 27:41.1 at Mt. SAC relays for the fastest 10,000 meters time in the world at the time
• Selected as a finalist for the NCAA Today’s Top Five Award
• Was a CoSIDA Academic All-American
• Received an NCAA post-graduate scholarship
• First non-football player to win the WAC’s Stan Bates Award