John Curtin joined Emory University as cross country coach at the start of the 1985-86 school year. His belief in individualized training programs has resulted in athletic and academic success for his student-athletes within a team concept.
The latest proof of his excellence is six NCAA Division III
men's regional titles from 1999 to 2004 and eight overall. His
women's teams won 13 consecutive regional titles and made 13
straight appearances in the NCAA national championships from 1991
to 2003, highlighted by a best-ever finish of seventh place at the
1997 championships. All totaled, his women's teams at Emory have
earned 17 trips to nationals.
His men's teams have made 12 appearances at the national
championships highlighted by a 12th-place finish in 1986 and 16th
place effort in 2003.
In 1992, Curtin guided the Emory women's and men's cross country
teams to the NCAA national meet, the first time in school history
that both teams went to the nationals in the same season. That feat
was repeated in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2008.
Curtin was named NCAA regional men's cross country Coach of the
Year in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004 and women's cross country
Coach of the Year by the United States Track Coaches Association in
1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
2005 and 2006. He was named men's Region Coach of the Year by
Southregionrunning.com in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
In his 23 years at Emory, Curtin has coached 12 cross country All-Americans, 187 all-region performers and 83 all-conference honorees. Twice, he and his assistants have been honored by the University Athletic Association as its cross country "Coaching Staff of the Year."
Prior to Emory, Curtin was the head men's cross country and track and field coach at Simpson College (Iowa) from 1979-85. He also coached the Simpson women's cross country and track teams for two years. In 1995, Curtin was inducted into Simpson's Sports Hall of Fame.
He is the track and field director for the Atlanta Track Club, a member of the Georgia USA Track & Field (formerly The Athletic Congress), and has served on the NCAA track and field committee. For several years, Curtin coordinated the invitation of elite runners for Atlanta's "Peachtree Road Race," one of the world's largest 10,000-meter race. Every year since 1992, Curtin has been a television commentator for the Peachtree race for which he won a regional.Emmy award, along with others members of the broadcast crew, for "Outstanding Achievement in Live Sports Programming."
In 1991, Curtin received his highest TAC honor when he was selected as head coach for the USA Women's National Ekiden Team that competed in Yokohama, Japan. He spent the spring and summer of 1996 as the assistant competition director for track & field at the Atlanta Olympic Games.
Curtin is a 1974 graduate of Drake University (Iowa) and earned
his master's degree from Drake in 1984.
Carl Leivers joined the Emory University Track and Field Team as a volunteer assistant in the spring of 2006 before joining the program in his current post in the fall. Carl also serves as the Eagles' assistant cross country coach.
Leivers graduated magna cum laude in earning his bachelor's
degree in sociology from Colorado Springs in 2003. While at CC, he
competed on the both the cross country and track and field teams.
He served as the track team's captain his senior year and was the
recipient of the program's "Most Inspirational" Award. He was team
captain of the cross country team his final year of competition in
2002.
After graduating, Leivers worked in the sociology department at
Colorado College where he served as a tutor for upper-level courses
and thesis projects. In addition, he created course web sites and
maintained the department's web site.
While living in Colorado Springs, he became Head of New Project
Development and Producer with Negative Split Pictures. Among his
duties there were the procurement of corporate funding and in-kind
donations to help finance the film Five Thousand Meters:
Nothing Comes Easy. He is the Co-Founder and Senior Event
Coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Distance Summit.
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