Mike Audette

Biography

Mike Audette took over the men's cross country program in 2021 and began adding oversight of the women's cross country program in 2022. He is also the assistant coach for the men's and women's track and field teams. Prior to joining Castleton, Audette spent 15 years as the head Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Coach at Rutland High School, where he helped guide several Division I State Meet individual champions and top-ten finishers, as well as several New England Championship qualifiers. As a high school athlete, Audette was the 1999 Vermont Division I Cross Country State Champion and a four-time New England Qualifier in Cross Country at Rutland High School. At the collegiate level, he competed at NCAA Division III Catholic University of America and was a two-time Cross Country individual conference champion and runner of the year (2001-2002) in the Capital Athletic Conference, a three-time All Mason Dixon Conference runner (2001-2003), and the first three-time NCAA Southeast Region Cross Country all-region runner in school history (2001-2003). In college Track, Audette competed in the 1500-10,000m distances and was the 2004 Mason Dixon Conference Indoor and Capital Athletic Conference Outdoor 5000m individual champion. Audette is a high school teacher at Mt. St. Joseph Academy in Rutland.