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Cross Country Head Coach David Granato
THE GRANATO FILE
PERSONAL
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Year at Washburn // 3rd
EDUCATION
Adams State
COACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Coach - Washburn, 2019-present Assistant Coach - Adams State, 2014-19
DAVID GRANATO
HEAD CROSS COUNTRY // ASSISTANT TRACK AND FIELD 3RD SEASON AT WASHBURN
David Granato was named the head coach for the Washburn men's and women's cross country programs and an assistant coach for the Ichabod track and field teams in September, 2019.
While at Washburn he has coached three allMIAA selections and guided the 2019 women's cross country team to a program-best fifthplace finish at the 2019 MIAA Cross Country Championships.
During the track and field season, Granato has coached three event winners, three all-MIAA track selection and two all-region picks.
In a COVID-shortened 2020 cross country season, Granato led the Ichabod emn's team to a fourth-place finish at the Newman Team Championships placing two runners in the top 10 advancing to the national championships. David Kibet led the Ichabods with an 11th-place finish pacing Washburn.
On the women's side, the squad finished sixth sending three to the national invitational with Sierra Mortensen finishing 10th overall out of 95 runners.
He served the previous five seasons at perennial power Adams State where he helped rebuild the women’s team to one of the best in NCAA Division II improving from an average national team place of tenth in the 2014-15 academic year, to an average national team placing of second, earning program of the year awards for 2017 and 2018. The women’s team also broke eight school records, one Division II record, and won four team titles in the process.
On the men’s side, the team improved to one of the strongest in a storied history; winning four team national titles, scoring 44 points to win the 2017 cross country national championship, in addition to breaking eight school records, three Division II records, and winning three program of the year awards.
Combined, Granato has helped the program to eight NCAA Division II team titles, five
second-place finishes and three third-place finishes as well as four fourth-place finishes. He has coached 31 individual NCAA Champions, one European U23 silver medalist, 120 AllAmericans and 77 Academic Scholar All-Americans
He was also the recruiting coordinator, for the Adams State Cross Country and Track & Field programs.
Granato earned his master’s degree in exercise physiology from Adams State where he completed his thesis on salivary cortisol levels and recover stress state analysis as indicators of over training syndrome in national caliber male and female Division II cross country runners.
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