Creighton University Women's Track & Field

Chris Gannon begins his eighth season as head coach of Creighton's cross country programs in 2025-26. Creighton has made huge strides in Gannon's first seven campaigns, as he helped the Bluejay women to a seventh-place finish in the rugged BIG EAST in both 2019 and 2020, a sixth-place men's finish at the 2022 BIG EAST Championships and a program-best fifth-place showing in 2023. CU was ranked as the fifth-most improved men's program in the country by The Wood Report in 2019. Gannon coached Skutt Catholic High School to a Boys Cross Country state title in 2017 and a runner-up finish on the Girls side in his only year with the SkyHawks. He also served as head coach of the track program while at Skutt. Prior to taking the job at Skutt, Gannon served as the head track & field coach at Gross Catholic from 2007-14, and was running coach and co-founder of Run Omaha Coaching. Gannon was a three-time all-conference performer in the triple jump while competing for the University of Nebraska Kearney and Fort Hays State University. He obtained his BS in Sports Administration from UNK in 2003 and a MS in Health and Human Performance in 2006 from FHSU. As a coach at FHSU, Gannon helped coach 16 national qualifiers, five All-Americans and the NCAA Regional Athlete of the Year.

Former Oklahoma State All-American Matthew Fayers enters his eighth year at Creighton in 2025-26, and fifth as an assistant coach. Originally hired in July of 2018 as a graduate assistant, he was elevated to his current role as full-time assistant coach in December of 2021. Fayers has played an integral part in the success of the CU Cross Country and Track teams since his arrival, during which time the Bluejays have set 48 school-records and had 400+ performances to land on an all-time best list. A middle-distance specialist with plenty of range, Fayers clocked four sub-four-minute miles and advanced to the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds four times in the 1,500-meter run. He ran for Oklahoma State in back-to-back NCAA Cross Country Championship races and earned two academic all-Big 12 honors, with 11 all-Big 12 medals total. Fayers also earned two All-America honors with appearances in the DMR and open mile, and owns five places in three of Oklahoma State's top-10 lists. Originally from Ickenham, England, he graduated from OSU with his bachelor's in Health and Physical Education Fitness in 2018 and earned his master's degree in Education from Creighton in 2021.