Liz Wort Named TCU Cross Country Head Coach
8/22/2011 12:00:00 AM | General
Aug. 22, 2011
FORT WORTH, Texas – Liz Wort has joined Darryl Anderson’s TCU track & field coaching staff as an assistant coach and will serve as the head cross country coach for the Horned Frogs.
“We are excited to announce the hiring of Liz Wort as the head coach for cross country and assistant coach for track & field at TCU,” TCU head coach Darryl Anderson said. “She will be in charge of all aspects of our distance program. We are very excited to have a young and enthusiastic person on our staff that was working at a full-time role at one of the higher-level distance programs in the country at Duke University. As a coach, she led an athlete to the 10,000 meter title at the 2011 NCAA Championships and had two other runners score in the 800 meters and 1,500 meters last season.”
“As we went through the process of hiring for this position, it became clear that Liz is one of the young up-and-coming stars in the distance coaching field,” Anderson said. “We are very fortunate to get somebody that has had that kind of experience to help move our program to where we envision it to be and setting us up for our move to the Big East.”
Under Wort’s tutelage last season, Duke sophomore Juliet Bottorff ran to an NCAA Championship in the women’s 10,000 meters, becoming the first outdoor women’s champion in Blue Devils history. Bottorff, Cydney Ross and Kate Van Buskirk all earned All-America status in Iowa last spring.
In her four seasons as a member of the Duke coaching staff, Wort helped produce a 2011 NCAA Champion and her cross country teams finished in the top-20 at the NCAA Championships in three of her four years on staff.
Wort was instrumental in guiding Duke’s 2010 women’s cross country team to an eighth-place finish at the NCAA Championships after the team captured its third NCAA Southeast Region title in program history.
Wort was a member of the Duke coaching staff since 2007 after completing a stellar running career as a Blue Devil. She was a three-time All-American and qualified for the 2008 Olympic Trials and 2007 Pan-American Games. Wort was a member of the Duke cross country team that won an ACC title and finished second overall at the NCAA Championships.
