Ole Miss’ head distance coach Ryan Vanhoy readily admits that he wasn’t a standout distance runner at North Carolina, which is true of most of us. “I was a walk-on athlete at the University of North Carolina; I wasn’t a very good athlete, spent most of my career injured.”
As a collegiate distance coach, however, he stands out as the greatest endurance mind in Ole Miss track history.
At just north of 30 years old, Vanhoy has already cut a wide berth across NCAA distance running’s landscape from Oxford, Miss., and he’s taking his best Rebel squadron yet into Madison, Wisc.