Davidson College Men's Cross Country

Matt Stuck was promoted to Director of Men's Cross Country and Track & Field in July of 2023. Coach Stuck specializes in the pole vault, hurdles, and high jump groups as well as the Heptathlon and Decathlon. The 2025 outdoor season featured some historic moments for the men's track & field program and Coach Stuck. Jayden Smith punch his ticket to the NCAA Championships for the second straight season. The six-time Atlantic 10 champion (outdoors & indoors combined) earned first-team All American honors with an eighth place finish in the 110m hurdles at NCAAs. Smith recorded a time of 13.65 in the championship heat. He is also one of just two Wildcats to earn All-American status on the men's side. John Teachman also made a statement during the 2025 outdoor season. Teachman became the first ever Wildcat to win gold in the Javelin in the Atlantic 10. He threw for 63.34 meters to win the A-10. The Mt. Pleasant, S.C. native also competed at the Nike / USATF U20 Championships in June and finis

Andrew Allden joined the Davidson men's cross country and track & field program in the fall of 2023. A 30-year veteran of distance coaching, Coach Allden has proven success in both the cross country and the track & field realm. Allden most recently coached Anass Essayi who was the SEC's indoor mile and outdoor 1500m champion and also took bronze at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Essay's time of 3:50.46 this past indoor season was the second-fastest mile in NCAA history. Allden also served as South Carolina's women's cross country coach from 2013-2022 where his student-athletes set 13 of the program's top-20 times in the 6K including the current school record. His 2022 squad also boasted the SEC's top GPA of 3.70, then in 2014, the program recorded the highest team GPA in Division I. In 2015, his team followed that up with the second-highest team GPA in the country at 3.826.