Michael Porter

Biography

Michael Porter joined the TCU cross country and track and field programs as an assistant coach in 2025. He coaches distance student-athletes. In his first season with the Frogs, he guided junior Johnson Lagat to the 2025 NCAA Cross Country Championship Meet become the first men’s TCU runner to qualify since 2010. Lagat ran a career-best time of 29:33.5 to cross the finish line and earn an auto-bid as an individual and finished seventh overall and earn All-Region Honors. Prior to arriving in Fort Worth, he spent four years at Vanderbilt in the same role. During the 2023 cross country season, Porter led the women’s cross country team to a seventh place finish, its best since his coming to Vanderbilt. Two Dores, Jackson Scruggs and Colette Kinsella, were top-15 freshman finishers at the NCAA Cross Country South Region Championships. During the 2024 indoor season, Porter guided Julia Rosenberg to qualifying for the NCAA East First Round in the 1,500 meters and breaking the school records in the 1,000 and 3,000 meters indoors and 5,000 meters outdoors. In her first-ever 10,000-meter race, Bria Bennis, coaches by Porter, scored at the SEC Championships. With his coaching, Emma Curry and Audrey Allman and Rosenberg contributed to Vanderbilt’s bronze medal-winning performance in the distance medley relay at the SEC Indoor Championships. During the 2022 cross country season, the women’s team, paced by Niki Narayani, finished 10th at the NCAA South Region Championships. With Porter’s g