Liberty University Women's Cross Country

Former Liberty standout Isaac Wendland returned to the Flames as an assistant track & field/cross country coach in January 2019 before being promoted to head...

One of the most highly decorated women’s distance runners in program history, Calli Doan has remained at her alma mater since her graduation in 2024 to serve as an assistant coach. In this role, she primarily works with the Flames’ distance runners. Doan finished her time as a Lady Flame in 2024 as a three-time All-American. She earned her first All-America recognition with a 28th-place finish at the 2021 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships. Doan then collected back-to-back second team All-America honors in the women's steeplechase in 2023 (11th place) and 2024 (10th place). An 11-time individual conference champion and a 20-time all-conference performer, Doan was part of nine Liberty teams which captured conference titles. She also helped the Liberty women's cross country squad qualify to the NCAA Division I Championships for the first time in the spring of 2021. Doan owned five program records at the time of her graduation, including the cross country 5K (16:15.1), cross country 6K (19:50.6), indoor mile (4:36.52), indoor 3K (9:24.67) and outdoor steeplechase (9:49.54). She also recorded the 13 fastest steeplechase times in program history. The 2024 Rock Royer/Mac Rivera Award winner and the 2023 ASUN Conference Student-Athlete of the Year, Doan was also a standout in the classroom. She became the first three-time CSC Academic All-America® honoree in Liberty history, making the second team in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Doan has completed two degrees at Liberty, including

Liberty Athletics Hall of Famer and All-American Heather Zealand made a successful return to her alma mater as a track & field/cross country assistant coach ...

A familiar face returned to Liberty Mountain with Lance Bingham taking over as Liberty’s Director of Track & Field and Cross Country for the 2020-21 athletic...

Now in his eighth year at Liberty, Mark Fairley is serving as an assistant coach, meet director and track & field facilities manager in 2025-26. In his assistant coach role, Fairley primarily works with the distance runners. The women’s distance runners under Fairley’s direction enjoyed a successful 2024-25, including a Roanoke XC Invitational title and an impressive third-place Paul Short Run showing during the fall. Two of Fairley’s charges then contributed to a dominating 26-point showing in the CUSA women’s steeplechase final on the track. This is Fairley’s fifth year as meet director, and he has also served in the roles of volunteer assistant, graduate assistant and interim assistant coach during his time in Lynchburg. The track & field facilities manager was a new position for Fairley in 2024-25, giving him oversight of the facility operations at the Liberty Indoor Track Complex and the Matthes-Hopkins Track Complex. Fairley has also enjoyed success as a member of Liberty’s triathlon team, earning his professional triathlon racing license after winning the Claremont EDR Race in 2019. He also finished sixth in the draft legal race at the 2022 Collegiate Triathlon National Championships. Fairley served as an assistant coach for the triathlon team in 2022-23. Fairley arrived at Liberty on the heels of a standout career at Central College. He captured the men’s steeplechase national title at the 2018 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships as a senior, improvi