University of North Dakota Athletics

The name Dick Clay has become synonymous with the North Dakota track & field/cross country programs over the last four decades, serving as the longest single-sport tenure of any coach in school history.
 

Clay coached more than 80 individual All-America performers during his time at UND and won a total of five NCC team titles while taking his teams to 12 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships. At those postseason appearances, Clay saw his teams garner seven top-5 finishes, including the 2000 women’s team placing second.
 

Clay also guided two UND women to individual national championships, with Maria Crep (1994) and Heidi Evans (2008) each winning the crown. He was named NCAA DII National Coach of the Year in 2000, while earning regional coaching honors that same season and NCC Coach of the Year three times.