Adrian Myers has led Tulane's cross country and track & field programs to historic heights, earning a a major extension.
Since Tulane Green Wave Director of Cross Country and Track & Field, Adrian Myers, arrived Uptown, the team has reached historic heights. Myers has snapped a 22-year conference title drought while earning U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Coach of the Year three times. The Green Wave are making sure he sticks around through 2031 with a contract extension. The extension reflects his transformative effect on the program as they went from relative obscurity to national relevance that has been illustrated through a historic season campaign for Green Wave track and field.
Since taking over the program in the summer of 2021, Myers has built national recognition for the program and elevated it to new heights, which was highlighted by athletic director David Harris in a released statement regarding the extension, which now runs through 2030-31. Myers thinks the program is just getting started.
In five years, he’s laid quite a bit of foundation. After not capturing a conference title since 2001, when the Wave won Conference USA’s Women Outdoor Track and Field Championships, the program has won four American Conference titles under Myers: 2023 Women's Cross Country, 2024 Men's Cross Country, 2025 Women's Indoor Track and Field, and 2025 Women's Cross Country. That’s the most titles by any head coach since they joined the league in 2014-15.
The program has notched their highest-ever top 25 national rankings, with the men reaching No. 17 and the women ranking No. 25 for the first time in program history. In 2025, the Wave won the 2025 NCAA South Central Regional men's title under Myers. Notably, it was the first title won by a non-Arkansas or Texas school.
To put it simply, Myers has guided the program to produce seven All-Americans, 41 NCAA national qualifiers, 17 American Conference individual champions and 80 American Conference medalists.
Now, with a long-term vision plan in place, Myers will aim to rise the program to the top of the American and to become a real star rising in the NCAA. It’s been clear that Tulane is poised to do that amid a historic season most recently capped off by Cara Salsberry shining at the LSU Alumni Gold, notching two top 10 performances, and inching closer and closer to the school record for the hammer throw for a third straight week.
The Wave will now look to return to active next weekend, splitting between the Texas A&M Alumni Muster and the LSU Invitational in Baton Rouge, gearing up for the final weekend of action ahead of the American Conference Outdoor Championships.