University of Georgia Athletics
Track & Field
Adam Tribble
- Title:
- Head Cross Country Coach | Assistant Track & Field Coach
- Email:
- atribble@sports.uga.edu
A “Double Dawg” graduate from the University of Georgia and an Athens native, Adam Tribble was added as the program’s head cross country coach and assistant coach for distance in June of 2024.
Tribble’s second year guiding the Bulldog distance program earned significant dividends during the indoor and outdoor seasons. His corps established 29 improvements to the school’s all-time lists, including school records in the men’s 1500 meters and 10,000m outdoors and the distance medley relay indoors. Georgia’s distance runners scored in a combined five different events at the SEC indoor and outdoor meets and graduate transfer Matias Reynaga punched his ticket in the 5000m to the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Indoors, Ryan Olree clocked a 4:03.66 mile for fourth at the SEC Championships and joined three teammates, including Reynaga, on the fifth-place distance medley relay team that set a school record with a 9:33.84. Reynaga overtook the school record in the mile with a 4:022.24 at the USC Invite earlier in the year. Olree was one of four Bulldogs to enter into the UGA top 10 list in the 3000m at the Razorback Invite, topping the group with a 7:59.17 for the No. 3 spot in school history. In the 5000m, Olree flew to the second-fastest 5000m in Georgia history (13:45.68) at the David Hemery Invite while three other teammates also established top 10 times in the event during the season. On the women’s side, Swedish freshman Anastisia Nilsson rocketed to No. 4 on the school’s all-time top 10 list in the 3000m (9:23.28) while also taking control of the No. 9 spot in the mile with a 4:45.83 at SECs. She also joined three teammates on the DMR at the Razorback Invite that had the fourth-best time in history (11:22.70).
During the outdoor campaign, Olree continued his improvement with a fourth-place finish (3:44.57) in the 1500m at the SEC Championships. Reynaga (sixth, 5000m, 13:34.19) and Oliver Smart (eighth, 10,000m, 29:55.10) were another pair of Distance Dawgs to score at the SEC meet. Reynaga finished as the school record holder in the 5000m (13:32.16, Wake Forest Invite) and the 10,000m (28:25.30, Stanford Invite) to highlight a total of 10 improvements to UGA’s record books in the distance events in 2026, including Olree’s 29:31.64 for the No. 2 spot in the 10,000m at the Stanford Invite.
In his second cross season back with the Bulldogs, Tribble’s troops put the nation on notice with a top 25 finish at the 2025 NCAA Cross Country Championships, marking the first trip to Nationals for the UGA men since 2013. Reynaga topped his teammates at NCAAs with a 52nd-place finish after winning the season opening Covered Bridge Invitational. Tribble guided the men to win their first three meets before finishing second at the SEC Championships and taking third at the NCAA South Regional. These finishes were in large part thanks to having four All-Region performers in Huntsville, Ala. Will Aitken’s eighth-place finish was one of four in the top 18 for the Bulldogs, which is the most All-Region performers for the program since 2016.
On the women’s side, Nilsson scored in all five meets and was Georgia’s top finisher in three 2025 races to set the pace for a squad with only a single returner.
Tribble’s corps posted six improvements to the indoor and outdoor all-time top 10 lists during his first track seasons back in Athens. Olree highlighted the improvements with a school record (28:38.98) in the 10,000 meters while also clocking UGA’s fourth-best 5000m (13:59.88) to take 11th at the SEC Indoor Championships. In addition, Olree had the fifth-fastest outdoor 5000m (13:57.74, ninth at SECs) and the fifth-fastest indoor 3000m (8:05.93) in school history.
While fellow sophomore Conner Rutherford posted a fresh No. 5 time in the indoor 5000m at the 2025 Music City Challenge under Tribble’s tutelage, freshman Izzy Yonas was 13th in the 10,000m at the conference meet and clocked a 34:56.17 at her first Raleigh Relays.
In his first cross country season with the Bulldogs, Tribble guided Olree to a 19th-place finish (30:34.9) and All-Region honors at the NCAA South Regional. Olree led his teammates in all five races in 2024. For the women, Tribble began the development of Yonas, an in-state product who scored at all five meets and was UGA’s top finisher in three of them.
In addition, a pair of underclassmen in Rutherford and Kate Robinson strengthened the case for future optimism in Tribble’s distance program. Rutherford was the second Bulldog across the line in all four of his meets while Robinson, a freshman, topped her teammates in two races and scored in all five.
Tribble came back to Georgia after being the head track and field and cross country coach at California Baptist University since August 2018. Prior to his time at CBU, Tribble had spent the seven years at the University of Alabama as the assistant coach.
Tribble earned six Western Athletic Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year awards at CBU after leading the women to three straight league crowns in 2018-20 and the men to four straight WAC titles from 2020-2023. Both teams earned votes in the NCAA Division I rankings under Tribble, as well.
In seven seasons, the Lancers produced 19 individual conference champions (11 track, eight cross country) and 109 all-conference finishers (60 cross country, 49 track) in cross country and track combined. CBU's women cross country recorded the first perfect 15-point score in WAC history at the 2019 conference meet, while the men won the conference with a perfect score in 2021.
In the 2024 outdoor season, Tribble coached multiple national qualifiers for the second consecutive season, with both Valentin Soca and Greta Karinauskaite earning their way to Eugene, Ore. Both Soca and Karinauskaite earned All-American status, marking the first time in program history that multiple athletes have earned All-American status on the national stage. Under Tribble's tutelage, the Lancers collected five All-WAC nominees as well in 2024, including two individual champions and four First Team selections.
In the 2023 cross country season, Tribble was named the WAC Men's Coach of the Year for the third time and for the sixth time overall. Tribble oversaw 15 All-WAC selections, swept the individual champions at the WAC Championship Race, had five All-Regional finishers and the first All-American in program history in Karinauskaite. Karinauskaite and Arturs Medveds were named the WAC Runners of the Year under Tribble after their gold medal finishes at the WAC Championships.
The Lancers earned their best USTFCCCA rankings during the 2023 season with the men ranked as high as fourth and the women at 12th. Both teams reached Nationals for the first time in program history under Tribble with the women coming in 17th and the men in 16th.
In the 2023 outdoor season, Tribble oversaw 14 All-WAC finishers, three individual champions, six regional qualifiers and two national qualifiers. The NCAA qualifiers were the first in program history and Karinauskaiute became the first Lancer in program history to become an All-American and brought home the silver medal in the 3000M steeplechase.
In the 2022 cross country season, Tribble oversaw four team victories, including a perfect sweep at the WAC Championships. The Lancers also competed in their first-ever D1 West Regional (both men and women) and DI National Championships (women's team only) as they made the full transition to a full-fledged D1 program. Fourteen Lancers were named to the All-WAC team and the Lancers claimed another individual champion in Said Mechaal.
The Lancers also produced five WAC Cross Country Runners of the Year and individual champions and five Freshmen of the Year the last four seasons. CBU had its best season yet in 2020 when the Lancers swept both team and individual titles and produced 14 all-conference finishers at the WAC Cross Country Championships and then added on three championship runs and 17 more all-conference performances at the WAC track meet.
Tribble oversaw the Tide's cross country and distance runners, making him a great fit for the Lancers' distance-only program. He also spent time as an assistant at Oregon State, Arkansas and Georgia, where he graduated in 2002.
Alabama had enjoyed some of its best seasons in recent years with Tribble on staff. The Tide's men's cross country and track teams enjoyed their best year in quite a while in 2017-18.
In the elite SEC, Alabama's men placed second at the cross country conference championship meet for its top finish since 2010. The team went on to take third in the South Region and produce the individual regional champion before it placed 14th in all of Division I with three All-American runners. It was the program's first top-25 finish in the nation since 2010.
Momentum carried over to the track and field seasons with the men winning their first indoor SEC title since 1972 and then taking ninth at NCAAs. The Tide came back strong for the outdoor season, taking fourth in the SEC and qualifying 11 individuals for the NCAA Championships.
On the women's side, Alabama cross country stretched its run of top-seven finishes in the SEC to five years with a seventh-place finish in 2017. The team took third and fourth in the SEC in 2014 and 2015, respectively, which were the program's best performances since 1998. The team went on to take ninth at the 2017 South Regional after going in with six-straight top-six regional finishes, which included three-straight third-place marks from 2013-15.
Prior to Alabama, Tribble coached the Arkansas women to three straight SEC cross country championships and two runner-up finishes in five seasons. The Razorbacks were inside the top 20 at the NCAA Championships all five years and placed as high as fifth in 2006.
Tribble, a graduate of Athens Christian, ran cross country and distance races for Georgia Southern for a year before the men’s team was dropped at the institution. Tribble then returned to his hometown to run for the Bulldogs through 2002, earning two-time captain honors and All-Region accolades in cross.
Tribble graduated from Georgia in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in health and physical education. He also earned a master's degree from UGA in movement studies.
Tribble continued to train and compete following the completion of his collegiate career. He finished 46th at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the marathon.
In May 2012, Tribble married Meredith Crane, who was a volunteer coach with Alabama's distance runners and a former cross country and distance coach at the University of Mississippi. The couple have two children, a son, Ben, and a daughter, Georgia.
Tribble’s second year guiding the Bulldog distance program earned significant dividends during the indoor and outdoor seasons. His corps established 29 improvements to the school’s all-time lists, including school records in the men’s 1500 meters and 10,000m outdoors and the distance medley relay indoors. Georgia’s distance runners scored in a combined five different events at the SEC indoor and outdoor meets and graduate transfer Matias Reynaga punched his ticket in the 5000m to the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Indoors, Ryan Olree clocked a 4:03.66 mile for fourth at the SEC Championships and joined three teammates, including Reynaga, on the fifth-place distance medley relay team that set a school record with a 9:33.84. Reynaga overtook the school record in the mile with a 4:022.24 at the USC Invite earlier in the year. Olree was one of four Bulldogs to enter into the UGA top 10 list in the 3000m at the Razorback Invite, topping the group with a 7:59.17 for the No. 3 spot in school history. In the 5000m, Olree flew to the second-fastest 5000m in Georgia history (13:45.68) at the David Hemery Invite while three other teammates also established top 10 times in the event during the season. On the women’s side, Swedish freshman Anastisia Nilsson rocketed to No. 4 on the school’s all-time top 10 list in the 3000m (9:23.28) while also taking control of the No. 9 spot in the mile with a 4:45.83 at SECs. She also joined three teammates on the DMR at the Razorback Invite that had the fourth-best time in history (11:22.70).
During the outdoor campaign, Olree continued his improvement with a fourth-place finish (3:44.57) in the 1500m at the SEC Championships. Reynaga (sixth, 5000m, 13:34.19) and Oliver Smart (eighth, 10,000m, 29:55.10) were another pair of Distance Dawgs to score at the SEC meet. Reynaga finished as the school record holder in the 5000m (13:32.16, Wake Forest Invite) and the 10,000m (28:25.30, Stanford Invite) to highlight a total of 10 improvements to UGA’s record books in the distance events in 2026, including Olree’s 29:31.64 for the No. 2 spot in the 10,000m at the Stanford Invite.
In his second cross season back with the Bulldogs, Tribble’s troops put the nation on notice with a top 25 finish at the 2025 NCAA Cross Country Championships, marking the first trip to Nationals for the UGA men since 2013. Reynaga topped his teammates at NCAAs with a 52nd-place finish after winning the season opening Covered Bridge Invitational. Tribble guided the men to win their first three meets before finishing second at the SEC Championships and taking third at the NCAA South Regional. These finishes were in large part thanks to having four All-Region performers in Huntsville, Ala. Will Aitken’s eighth-place finish was one of four in the top 18 for the Bulldogs, which is the most All-Region performers for the program since 2016.
On the women’s side, Nilsson scored in all five meets and was Georgia’s top finisher in three 2025 races to set the pace for a squad with only a single returner.
Tribble’s corps posted six improvements to the indoor and outdoor all-time top 10 lists during his first track seasons back in Athens. Olree highlighted the improvements with a school record (28:38.98) in the 10,000 meters while also clocking UGA’s fourth-best 5000m (13:59.88) to take 11th at the SEC Indoor Championships. In addition, Olree had the fifth-fastest outdoor 5000m (13:57.74, ninth at SECs) and the fifth-fastest indoor 3000m (8:05.93) in school history.
While fellow sophomore Conner Rutherford posted a fresh No. 5 time in the indoor 5000m at the 2025 Music City Challenge under Tribble’s tutelage, freshman Izzy Yonas was 13th in the 10,000m at the conference meet and clocked a 34:56.17 at her first Raleigh Relays.
In his first cross country season with the Bulldogs, Tribble guided Olree to a 19th-place finish (30:34.9) and All-Region honors at the NCAA South Regional. Olree led his teammates in all five races in 2024. For the women, Tribble began the development of Yonas, an in-state product who scored at all five meets and was UGA’s top finisher in three of them.
In addition, a pair of underclassmen in Rutherford and Kate Robinson strengthened the case for future optimism in Tribble’s distance program. Rutherford was the second Bulldog across the line in all four of his meets while Robinson, a freshman, topped her teammates in two races and scored in all five.
Tribble came back to Georgia after being the head track and field and cross country coach at California Baptist University since August 2018. Prior to his time at CBU, Tribble had spent the seven years at the University of Alabama as the assistant coach.
Tribble earned six Western Athletic Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year awards at CBU after leading the women to three straight league crowns in 2018-20 and the men to four straight WAC titles from 2020-2023. Both teams earned votes in the NCAA Division I rankings under Tribble, as well.
In seven seasons, the Lancers produced 19 individual conference champions (11 track, eight cross country) and 109 all-conference finishers (60 cross country, 49 track) in cross country and track combined. CBU's women cross country recorded the first perfect 15-point score in WAC history at the 2019 conference meet, while the men won the conference with a perfect score in 2021.
In the 2024 outdoor season, Tribble coached multiple national qualifiers for the second consecutive season, with both Valentin Soca and Greta Karinauskaite earning their way to Eugene, Ore. Both Soca and Karinauskaite earned All-American status, marking the first time in program history that multiple athletes have earned All-American status on the national stage. Under Tribble's tutelage, the Lancers collected five All-WAC nominees as well in 2024, including two individual champions and four First Team selections.
In the 2023 cross country season, Tribble was named the WAC Men's Coach of the Year for the third time and for the sixth time overall. Tribble oversaw 15 All-WAC selections, swept the individual champions at the WAC Championship Race, had five All-Regional finishers and the first All-American in program history in Karinauskaite. Karinauskaite and Arturs Medveds were named the WAC Runners of the Year under Tribble after their gold medal finishes at the WAC Championships.
The Lancers earned their best USTFCCCA rankings during the 2023 season with the men ranked as high as fourth and the women at 12th. Both teams reached Nationals for the first time in program history under Tribble with the women coming in 17th and the men in 16th.
In the 2023 outdoor season, Tribble oversaw 14 All-WAC finishers, three individual champions, six regional qualifiers and two national qualifiers. The NCAA qualifiers were the first in program history and Karinauskaiute became the first Lancer in program history to become an All-American and brought home the silver medal in the 3000M steeplechase.
In the 2022 cross country season, Tribble oversaw four team victories, including a perfect sweep at the WAC Championships. The Lancers also competed in their first-ever D1 West Regional (both men and women) and DI National Championships (women's team only) as they made the full transition to a full-fledged D1 program. Fourteen Lancers were named to the All-WAC team and the Lancers claimed another individual champion in Said Mechaal.
The Lancers also produced five WAC Cross Country Runners of the Year and individual champions and five Freshmen of the Year the last four seasons. CBU had its best season yet in 2020 when the Lancers swept both team and individual titles and produced 14 all-conference finishers at the WAC Cross Country Championships and then added on three championship runs and 17 more all-conference performances at the WAC track meet.
Tribble oversaw the Tide's cross country and distance runners, making him a great fit for the Lancers' distance-only program. He also spent time as an assistant at Oregon State, Arkansas and Georgia, where he graduated in 2002.
Alabama had enjoyed some of its best seasons in recent years with Tribble on staff. The Tide's men's cross country and track teams enjoyed their best year in quite a while in 2017-18.
In the elite SEC, Alabama's men placed second at the cross country conference championship meet for its top finish since 2010. The team went on to take third in the South Region and produce the individual regional champion before it placed 14th in all of Division I with three All-American runners. It was the program's first top-25 finish in the nation since 2010.
Momentum carried over to the track and field seasons with the men winning their first indoor SEC title since 1972 and then taking ninth at NCAAs. The Tide came back strong for the outdoor season, taking fourth in the SEC and qualifying 11 individuals for the NCAA Championships.
On the women's side, Alabama cross country stretched its run of top-seven finishes in the SEC to five years with a seventh-place finish in 2017. The team took third and fourth in the SEC in 2014 and 2015, respectively, which were the program's best performances since 1998. The team went on to take ninth at the 2017 South Regional after going in with six-straight top-six regional finishes, which included three-straight third-place marks from 2013-15.
Prior to Alabama, Tribble coached the Arkansas women to three straight SEC cross country championships and two runner-up finishes in five seasons. The Razorbacks were inside the top 20 at the NCAA Championships all five years and placed as high as fifth in 2006.
Tribble, a graduate of Athens Christian, ran cross country and distance races for Georgia Southern for a year before the men’s team was dropped at the institution. Tribble then returned to his hometown to run for the Bulldogs through 2002, earning two-time captain honors and All-Region accolades in cross.
Tribble graduated from Georgia in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in health and physical education. He also earned a master's degree from UGA in movement studies.
Tribble continued to train and compete following the completion of his collegiate career. He finished 46th at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the marathon.
In May 2012, Tribble married Meredith Crane, who was a volunteer coach with Alabama's distance runners and a former cross country and distance coach at the University of Mississippi. The couple have two children, a son, Ben, and a daughter, Georgia.
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