University of Northern Colorado Women's Cross Country

Maranda Donahue was named the Assistant Track & Field/Cross Country Coach in August, 2025. Donahue joins UNC after serving as an assistant coach at Valparaiso University, where she provided leadership, organization, and supervision for more than 30 student-athletes. In her role with the Beacons, she assisted with daily practice plans, recruiting efforts at both the regional and national level, and monitored academic progress across the program. Donahue was instrumental in developing athletes who earned Missouri Valley Conference All-Conference honors, set seven individual school records and 23 program records, and produced multiple NCAA Division I All-Academic Team honorees. In addition to her work at Valparaiso, Donahue has also coached privately, specializing in sprints and hurdles. She has designed individualized training programs for youth athletes that emphasize mechanics, speed development, and injury prevention, while fostering a positive and disciplined training environment. Her commitment to excellence in the classroom has also been evident throughout her career, guiding athletes to prestigious honors including CoSIDA/CSC Academic All-District recognition, MVC State Farm Scholar Athlete Awards, and national academic team accolades. A 2023 graduate of Valparaiso University, Donahue earned her Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science with minors in Human Biology, Sports Management, and Coaching. A former standout at Delton Kellogg High School in Michigan, she continues

building the Bear programs toward conference championships and national recognition. His impact on the program didn’t take long to see. In his first season with the cross country program, the men earned their highest-ever finish at the Big Sky Conference Championship by taking fifth place. Both the men and women continuously set new personal record times and the men ended up ranked as high as 13th in the highly competitive Mountain Region. It’s a path he cultivated toward a triumphant five-year stint at Tennessee Tech University where he took the women’s track & field program to Three conference crowns. Angel led Tennessee Tech to domination with both the indoor and outdoor Ohio Valley Conference championships in 2018 and 2019. In that time, he also produced the OVC Athlete of the Year each season and trained the school’s first-ever women’s track All-American. Angel coached TTU to 40 OVC individual titles from 2016-19 and was named the OVC Coach of the Year four times. Angel not only had success as the track and field coach but also in cross country at Tennessee Tech. He sent an individual to the NCAA Championships in 2017 and 2018 and had both the men's and women's individual OVC champion in 2016. The Golden Eagles not only excelled on the cross country course but in the classroom as well as earning NCAA top 10 percent APR progress rating awards in 2017 and 2018. Prior to Tennessee Tech, Angel was the head men's cross country and track and field head coach at Florida A&M fro