Adam Boothe is in his first year as the Warrior's head cross country and third year at Winona State. Adam also serves as the distance coach for the track and field team. Prior to Winona State, Boothe spent the previous eight years as head cross country coach at the University of California- Santa Cruz. Adam’s passion for running has stayed with him throughout a successful high school and collegiate running career, an NCAA coaching career, and as a business owner.
In his first two seasons Adam has help the Warriors rise through the ranks of the NSIC, coaching the women to a third place finish at the cross country championships in 2011, behind two of the top teams in Division II that season. Also, Adam helped guide Kayla Gudmundson to become the first Warrior to earn a spot in the NCAA II cross country national championship meet.
A California Bay Area native, Boothe graduated from Pioneer HS in 1997. While at Pioneer, Boothe was a CCS Champion and two-time Cross Country State Championship Qualifier, and Top 20 finisher. From there he went on to Cal Poly SLO, where he was back-to-back Big West Conference Champion and an NCAA Division I National Qualifier. At Cal Poly, Adam ran for Mark Conover, 1988 Olympic Marathon Trials Champion. Since helping the team win it’s first Big West Conference Title in 1997, Cal Poly has gone on to win 11 of 13 Big West Cross Country Championships.
In 2003, Adam came on as head coach of the Women’s Cross Country team at UC Santa Cruz. That same year the UCSC Banana Slugs made their first appearance at the NCAA DIII West Region Championship. Since ’03, Boothe has coached 11 NCAA DIII Independent First Team runners, 6 All Region runners, 3 NCAA DIII Independent All Americans, and 4 NCAA National Qualifiers. In 2008, Boothe was named the NCAA DIII Independents Coach of the Year. In 2008 and 2009, the UCSC women’s cross country team was honored as an NCAA All-Academic Team. In addition he has privately coached several post-collegiate runners to their Boston Marathon qualifiers.
