Marquette will start its national search for a permanent cross country coach after the 2019 season, athletic director Bill Scholl said.
Longtime head coach Mike Nelson departed the program Aug. 12 to become the director of cross country and track and field at Monmouth University, a Division I school competing in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Nelson had been head coach since 2007.
The announcement left MU without a coach with the start of the season fewer than three weeks away.
Scholl promoted volunteer assistant coach Sean Birren to interim head coach Aug. 14. Birren coached at Division II Lindenwood University prior to joining Nelson’s staff in 2012.