Brien Bell

Biography

Brien Bell enters his eighth year at the helm of the Orange cross country/track and field programs in 2025-26. A fixture with the program, he has been at Syracuse for two decades including his time as an assistant. Since his arrival, Syracuse has returned to national prominence, winning multiple NCAA titles (team and individual) and numerous conference titles. Bell’s men’s cross country team enters the 2025 campaign riding a streak of 16-straight NCAA Championship appearances, which is the nation's fourth-longest active streak, while the women’s team has qualified in each of the past four seasons. Aside from the 2019-20 academic year, which saw the outdoor track season canceled due to the global pandemic, Bell’s track squad has finished with at least one All-American in every season of his head coaching tenure. Bell has been named the USTFCCCA Northeast Region Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year four times, including three of the last-four seasons and has continued to build a strong program across all facets. This past season, Syracuse was represented at five of the six NCAA Championship events (men's and women's cross country, men's and women's indoor track and field and men's and women's outdoor track and field). 'Cuse has qualified its team and/or athletes for five-or-more championships in each of the past three seasons. In 2022-23, Syracuse was 1-of-11 teams in the country to score at all-six NCAA Championship events and have both its men’s and women’s team finish the s