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Megan Elliott was named Nebraska's cross country head coach in August of 2024 and coaches the Huskers' distance and middle distance athletes on the track.
Prior to coming to Nebraska, Elliott was a two-time national champion assistant coach at Arkansas in 2023-24 in charge of distance and cross country. She had previously served as the Razorbacks' director of operations from 2014-23.
In Elliott's second year as NU's cross country head coach in 2025, Berlyn Schutz placed 16th at the Big Ten Cross Country Championships, the best finish by a Husker since 2021.
In 2024, Ali Bainbridge grabbed a fifth-place finish as an individual at the NCAA Midwest Regional and became the first Husker since 2021 to qualify for the NCAA Championships. She finished 76th, the highest finish by a Husker since 2008. Bainbridge earned All-Big Ten Second Team honors and NCAA All-Midwest Region honors.
On the track, Elliott's distance and middle distance runners achieved 16 all-time top-10 marks on the women's side in her first season in 2025, including school records in the mile, 3000m and 1500m. Additionally, NU's distance medley relay squad ran the second-fastest time in school history. The NU men posted six top-10 times in 2025, including the second-fastest indoor 800m in school history.
Under Elliott’s leadership at Arkansas in 2024, Laura Taborda claimed a fifth-place finish in the 3000m steeplechase at the NCAA Championships, one of five distance All-Americans for the Razorbacks that season. Arkansas swept the women's indoor and outdoor national championships in 2024.
In her role as the director of operations, Elliott handled behind-the-scenes work, coordinating travel, recruiting, student-athlete eligibility, team equipment and gear. She helped Arkansas women’s track and field to a pair of national championships, while the men were runners-up twice during her tenure. Prior to returning to her alma mater, Elliott was an assistant coach at IU-Indianapolis for a year.
As an athlete with the Razorbacks, Elliott earned All-America honors in the steeplechase in 2008, while being named to the All-SEC First Team every year of her collegiate career.
The Middlebury, Indiana native earned her bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from Arkansas in 2010 and completed her master’s degree in Kinesiology/Exercise science in 2013, while serving as a graduate assistant with the Razorbacks.
Megan and her husband, Rick, were married in June 2014 and the couple has two sons, Otto and Rhodes. Rick is Nebraska track and field's recruiting coordinator.