For the eighth time in his 11 seasons leading the program, the University of Wisconsin's Mick Byrne is the Big Ten Conference Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year.
Byrne, UW's director of cross country and track and field, was named the award winner Tuesday, two days after the Badgers men's team won its eighth conference championship in the last 11 years.
UW senior Morgan McDonald won the individual title last Sunday in Lincoln, Nebraska, with junior Oliver Hoare taking second.
Their finishes helped the Badgers to a 50-point margin of victory, the conference's largest since UW won by 65 in 2009.